Background
Baptised at Totteridge, Hertfordshire, 21 April 1636, he was the eldest surviving son of Hugh Hare, 1st Baron Coleraine, by his wife Lucy, second daughter of the first marriage of Henry Montagu, 1st Earl of Manchester.
Baptised at Totteridge, Hertfordshire, 21 April 1636, he was the eldest surviving son of Hugh Hare, 1st Baron Coleraine, by his wife Lucy, second daughter of the first marriage of Henry Montagu, 1st Earl of Manchester.
He resided at Tottenham, Middlesex. He was unsuccessful as a candidate for Wiltshire in 1690. In 1696, Coleraine built a vestry at the east end of the north aisle of Tottenham parish church, and underneath a vault for his family.
He was buried at Tottenham on 15 July 1708.
Coleraine was married three times:
first to Constantia (died 1680), daughter of Sir Richard Lucy of Broxbourne, Hertfordshire, by whom he had Hugh Hare, and other children;
secondly to Sarah, Duchess-dowager of Somerset, widow of John Seymour, 4th Duke of Somerset (died 1692). And
thirdly, in 1696, to Elizabeth Portman (died 1732), widow of Robert Reade of Cheshunt, Hertfordshire.
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Longford Castle in Wiltshire was a family property, and Coleraine was elected Member of Parliament for Old Salisbury in 1679.