Hoare was the son of Henry Charles Hoare, and his wife Anne Penelope Ainslie, daughter of General
George Ainslie. He was educated at
Eton College and
St John's College, Cambridge before entering the family bank
Messrs Hoare and Co. He succeeded his uncle Sir Hugh Richard Hoare, 4th Baronet in the
baronetcy in 1857 and moved to
Stourhead. He was a Justice of the Peace and
Deputy Lieutenant for Somerset and Wiltshire. In 1865, Hoare was elected
Member of Parliament for
Windsor but was unseated in 1866. At the
1868 general election, he was elected MP for
Chelsea. He held the seat until 1874. ) in
Vanity Fair, February 1883 Hoare had a restless temperament and expensive tastes, including hunting and horse racing, which left him short of money. In 1883, during the
agricultural depression, he had to sell at auction many of Stourhead's treasures, including
Sir Richard Colt Hoare’s collection of books on British history and a series of watercolour paintings by Turner. Hoare left Stourhead and lived in France in his later years, where he fell ill in 1894. He returned to London and died at the age of 70 at 12, West Eaton Place,
Pimlico, and was buried at Stourton. ==Family==