Hoare, Esquire John Gurney
b. 1810-05-07
d. 1875-02-16
John Gurney Hoare was a British banker in a long line of influential London bankers.1 He was also a member of the African Civilization Society.2 He is mentioned in this letter, which discusses the discovery of gold in Haida Gwaii.
  • 1. The Bankers’ Magazine, Volume 12 (London: Waterlow and sons, 1852), 547; Susan Drain, Hoare, Louisa Gurney, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.
  • 2. Sir Thomas Fowell Buxton, The African Slave Trade and Its Remedy (London: W. Clowes and sons), 13.
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The Colonial Despatches Team. Hoare, Esquire John Gurney. The Colonial Despatches of Vancouver Island and British Columbia 1846-1871, Edition 2.0, ed. The Colonial Despatches Team. Victoria, B.C.: University of Victoria. https://bcgenesis.uvic.ca/hoare.html.

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