James Hare

(1747-1804)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Hare, James, 1747?-1804 NRA: Hare James (1749-1804) MP Diplomat and Wit DNB: Hare, James (bap. 1747, d. 1804), social celebrity and politician LBT ID: JaHare1804 VIAF ID: 14604609 LOC ID: no2009006652	B/BAP: 1747-04-09 DIED: 1804-03-17
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MP for Stockbridge (1772-74) and Knaresborough (1781-1804); he was a close friend of Charles James Fox, R. B. Sheridan, and the Duchess of Devonshire. In person he was remarkably thin and pale, arousing comments.
REFERENCES TO James Hare: Duchess of Devonshire to Lady Melbourne, [Janury 1802] in In Whig Society 1775-1818: Compiled from the hitherto unpublished Correspondence of Elizabeth, Viscountess Melbourne, and Emily Lamb, Countess Cowper, afterwards Viscountess Palmerston (London: Hodder and Stoughton LTD., 1921) Found 2: ¶ 2 ¶ n1 Duchess of Devonshire? to Lady Melbourne, 20 February 1802 in In Whig Society 1775-1818: Compiled from the hitherto unpublished Correspondence of Elizabeth, Viscountess Melbourne, and Emily Lamb, Countess Cowper, afterwards Viscountess Palmerston (London: Hodder and Stoughton LTD., 1921) Found 1: ¶ 1 Frederick Foster to Lady Melbourne, [November 1802] in In Whig Society 1775-1818: Compiled from the hitherto unpublished Correspondence of Elizabeth, Viscountess Melbourne, and Emily Lamb, Countess Cowper, afterwards Viscountess Palmerston (London: Hodder and Stoughton LTD., 1921) Found 1: ¶ 1 Eleanor Creevey to Elizabeth Ord, 12 September 1806 in The Creevey Papers: A Selection from the Correspondence & Diaries of the late Thomas Creevey, M.P. (London: John Murray, 1903) Found 1: ¶ 1 Uvedale Price to Samuel Rogers, 6 October 1824 in Samuel Rogers and his Contemporaries 2 Vols (London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1889) Found 2: ¶ 6 ¶ 7 Jerdan, William, 1782-1869, The Autobiography of William Jerdan. 4 vols (London: Arthur Hall, Vertue & Co., 1852-53) Ch 5: Criticisms Found 1: ¶ 8 Clayden, Peter William, 1827-1902, Samuel Rogers and his Contemporaries 2 Vols (London: Smith, Elder & Co., 1889) Chapter X. 1822-24. Creevey, Thomas, 1768-1838, The Creevey Papers: A Selection from the Correspondence & Diaries of the late Thomas Creevey, M.P. (London: John Murray, 1903) Ch. III: 1805 Found 1: ¶ 54 Ch. IV: 1806-08 Airlie, Mabell, Countess of, 1866-1956, In Whig Society 1775-1818: Compiled from the hitherto unpublished Correspondence of Elizabeth, Viscountess Melbourne, and Emily Lamb, Countess Cowper, afterwards Viscountess Palmerston (London: Hodder and Stoughton LTD., 1921) Chapter II. Found 2: ¶ 18 ¶ n1 Chapter III.