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- He was an English antiquary
He succeeded his grandfather, Henry Hare, 2nd Baron Coleraine, in 1708, to the title.
Coleraine married, 20 January 1718, Anne, eldest daughter of John Hanger, to be Governor of the Bank of England, who brought him a dowry of nearly ?100,000. The couple lived together until October 1720, when Lady Coleraine left her husband for ever. Coleraine, finding a reconciliation impossible, formed on 29 April 1740 a "solemn engagement" with Rose Duplessis (1710? 1790), daughter of Fran?ois Duplessis, a French clergyman, by whom he had a daughter, Henrietta Rosa Peregrina, born at Crema, Lombardy in Italy 12 September 1745. Having had no issue by his wife, Coleraine bequeathed his Tottenham estates to this illegitimate daughter; but she being an alien they escheated to the crown. A grant of them was later obtained for James Townsend, whom she married on 2 May 1763.
Lady Coleraine survived until 10 January 1754, and asked to be buried at Bray, Berkshire. Gabriel, third son of her uncle Sir George Hanger, was, in 1762, created Baron Coleraine
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