Robert Hare MP (abt. 1527 - bef. 1611)

Born about 1 Jan 1527 in Suffolk, England

Ancestors

Died before 2 Nov 1611 before about age 84 in England

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Biography

Robert Hare MP was born in England.

Robert Hare, of Bruisyard in Suffolk and of London, was the second son of Sir Nicholas Hare and Catharine Bassingbourne, daughter and coheir of Sir John Bassingbourne, of Woodhall, Hatfield in Hertfordshire.

Robert Hare matriculated as a Fellow Commoner of Gonville Hall, Cambridge in November 1545, but took no degree, and was admitted a student of the Inner Temple 2 February 1548.

On 29 March 1558, he was in the service of William Paulet, Marquess of Worcester, Lord High Treasurer, apparently in connection with that office.

On 14 June 1560 he was admitted a Clerk of the Pells on the nomination of the Marquis, and in 1563 he was Member of Parliament for Dunwich in Suffolk. He vacated the clerkship in or about 1571.

In 1578, he appears in a list of papists. He spent the greater part of his life in collecting and arranging the numerous documents which elucidate the history, rights and privileges of the University and Town of Cambridge. The result was a series of valuable volumes now preserved in the University Archives. He also added £600 to Dr Mowse's `Causey Fund', a benefaction left in trust for improving roads in the vicinity of Cambridge.

He never married and his estates passed to his uncle John, grandfather of Hugh Hare, 1st Baron Coleraine.

(17.) Obitus Roberti Hare 2* die Novembris 1611.

Sources

• UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO LIBRARIES British Armorial Bindings
• The East Anglian; or, Notes and queries on subjects connected with the ... pages 56/57
• Visitation of Suffolk Page 38: Hare of Brewsyard
• history of Parliament online: HARE, Robert (c.1531-1611), of Bruisyard, Suff. and London