HoareBLAZON OF ARMS: Quarterly sable and gules over all an eagle displayed with two heads argent a bordure invected counterchanged. CREST:
The Hoare Mottos: Veritas et partria - Truth and home(country) Dum spiro spero - While I have breath I hope In ardua - On high Venit hora - The hour comes There are HOAREs OF STOURTON, Bts., of Luscombe, Devon, also |
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Source of description:
Family Names from the Burke's General Armory - 1,500 blazons (heraldic descriptions): H
www.luz-herald.net/free/BURKE_S/SURNAMES_BEGINNING_WITH_THE16.HTM
Source of description:
Names UK - 1,500 blazons (heraldic descriptions): H
www.namesuk.com/store/namesearch/mainsearch.html
Here is an interesting "Ex-Libris" (mark of possession of books) from about 1780 used by Thomas Holloway HOARE (1748-1827). During the eighteenth century, ex-libris were mainly heraldic but non-armigerous persons increasingly used a pictorial ex-libris like this.
Source of description:
THE WORLD OF EX-LIBRIS A historical retrospective:
2 EX-LIBRIS FROM THE ENLIGHTENMENT TO DECADENCE 1700 -1860
http://karaart.com/prints/ex-libris/2e.html