Family
Hoar married, in 1940, Rosamund Leonard (1909–1983), the daughter of Patrick Leonard, a landowner, former President of the Chamber of Commerce of Dublin and a member of the Irish Dáil, and granddaughter of Simon Mangan of Dunboyne Castle, HM Lieutenant of County Meath, and Margaret (née) Larkin, a first cousin of Brig Gen Paul Kenna, VC. Rosamund was a concert pianist who trained at the Paris Conservatoire and was well known for her performances on Radio Eireann in its earliest years.
They had four children:
- Peter Frank (b 1941), married Julia Legg:
- Christopher;
- Tamara;
- Valerie (b 1944), married Adrian Beatty:
- Jonathan, m Kay Dickson:
- Juliet;
- Caroline, m Matthew Stevenson:
- Joshua;
- Hannah Louise;
- Gerald;
- Sarah.
- John Leonard (b 1947), married Jacqueline Tindal, d of Group Captain Nicolas Tindal-Carill-Worsley:
- Francis;
- Thomas, m Laura, g-dtr of Maj Gen Eric Dorman-O'Gowan:
- Patrick Charles John;
- Alexander Edmund
- Edmund;
- William;
- Jack;
- Nicolas;
- Joseph.
- Diana (b 1952), married Harry Russell:
- Julian;
- Anthony;
- Emily;
- Dominic.
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