Ernest SoaresUpcott House in the parish of Pilton, near Barnstaple, Devon, residence of Soares from 1901 to pre-1917[1]
Sir Ernest Joseph Soares (20 October 1864 – 15 March 1926), of 36 Princes Gate, London,[2] and of Upcott House[3] in the parish of Pilton, near Barnstaple in North Devon, was a British solicitor and Liberal politician.
Soares was the son of José Luís Xavier Soares, a Liverpool merchant, tracing his roots to Ucassaim, GoainPortuguese India and Hannah Hollingsworth of Liverpool.[4]
When Soares was working as a solicitor in Manchester and residing at Woodheys,[7][8] on Washway Road, in Ashton upon Mersey (today Sale), he married Kate Carolyn Lord (1864-1932), daughter of his then near-neighbour Samuel Lord (1803-1889), the British-born American retail millionaire and founder of Lord & Taylor today the oldest luxury department store in the United States. Lord was born in Saddleworth, West Riding of Yorkshire, and emigrated to America in about 1821. Having retired from managing his retail empire, in 1866 he returned to England and resided at Oakleigh, on The AvenueinAshton upon Mersey. Lord left nine million dollars (£1.848 million[9]) at his death.[10] By his wife Soares had one daughter and only child:
Kate Rose Mary Soares (b. 1894), who married Captain Walter Bell (1880–1954), MC,[11] known as Karamojo Bell, the Scottish adventurer and African big game hunter.
^Website created and compiled by Charlie Hulme and Lis Nicolson, with the assistance of the John Cassidy Committee, Slane History & Archaeology Society.[2]
^Lawrence H. Officer, "Dollar-Pound Exchange Rate From 1791," MeasuringWorth, 2017 [3]
^Website created and compiled by Charlie Hulme and Lis Nicolson, with the assistance of the John Cassidy Committee, Slane History & Archaeology Society.[4]
