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Harold Frank Hoar, FRIBA (13 September 1907 – 3 October 1976), was a British architect, artist, academic and architectural historian. Hoar first came to public prominence when, at the age of 25, he won a competition to design the first terminal building at London's Gatwick Airport in the 1930s. His architectural career focused increasingly on town planning in the post war years, when he also became a well known public commentator on domestic architecture in that era of reconstruction. A senior lecturer at University College London, Hoar was an expert on the Bavarian Baroque and wrote histories of English and European architecture at a time when architectural modernism decried the value of an historical approach to architecture. He was also an accomplished watercolour painter, his work on architectural themes having often been exhibited in the Royal Academy in the 1950s and 1960s. In a wide ranging career Hoar was probably best known as the cartoonist "Acanthus", where his work appeared in ''Punch'', the ''Sunday Telegraph'', ''The New Yorker'' and ''The Builder'' magazine; and as "Hope" in the ''Sunday Express''. His cartoons reflected on the home front during the Second World War and were often accompanied by great architectural backdrops. As a cartoonist during the war, Hoar's political cartoons contemplated the long term direction of the war and of the perpetrators of its worst atrocities. ==Background and early life== Hoar was born in Burma, then a part of the Indian Empire, to Harold Hoar and Frances (née) Harry, where his father was stationed with the Army Educational Corps. The Hoars were an old Hampshire family, settled in Catherington from the reign of Henry VIII and Lords of the Manor of Lovedean, near Catherington, in the 17th century.〔The family had recently been based in Portsea, where they had moved from Catherington in the early 19th century. Census returns; Baptisimal records of Catherington and Portsea; The Victoria County History (1908) (Parish of Lovedeane ). A grandson of the John Hoare who was Lord of Lovedean was Richard Ayliffe (1640-82), MP for Whitchurch: (The House of Commons 1660-1690 ) by Basil Duke Hemming (1983); Martin Secker & Warburg Ltd〕 Harold Hoar's great grandfather, John Jeans, was the Professor of Nautical Astronomy at the Royal Naval College, Portsmouth.〔Harold Hoar's grandfather, Samuel Hoar, married Harriet Jeans, son of John Jeans.National Records Office; family papers.〕 The Harry family descend in the male line from the Owens of Lllullo and, ultimately, from Hywel Dda and Rhodri Mawr, 10th-century Kings of Wales. Through that family, Hoar was a kinsman of Richard Nixon, 37th President of the United States.〔Burke, Presidential families of the United States; Burke's Commoners, Owen of Llullo〕 On the family's return to England, they settled in Devon, where Hoar was educated at Plymouth College. At the age of 15, he won a scholarship to the Bartlett School of Building at University College London (UCL), with which he was to be associated for the best part of his life. Studying under Sir Albert Richardson, PRA, Hoar qualified as an ARIBA in 1931, and was awarded a diploma in Town Planning, having been awarded the Owen Jones Student Medal by the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) whilst an undergraduate.〔Obituary, The Times, 7 October 1976.〕 Hoar's interest in architectural history developed during his student years, where he was awarded the Roland Jones prize for the history of Medieval architecture in his second year. Hoar was a keen rugby player, playing for Saracens 1st XV between 1934 and 1937.〔Huntly, Robert (2001): Saracens, 125 Years of Rugby〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Frank Hoar」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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