Sir Thomas Hare (28 March 1806 in England – 6 May 1891) was a British lawyer, MP and proponent of electoral reform.
In particular he was the inventor of the Single Transferable Voting system, now used in many places in the world. ==Life== He was born on 28 March 1806, was the only son of A Hare of Leigh, Dorset. On 14 November 1828 he was admitted a student of the Inner Temple, and was called to the bar on 22 November 1833.
In particular he was the inventor of the Single Transferable Voting system, now used in many places in the world. ==Life== He was born on 28 March 1806, was the only son of A Hare of Leigh, Dorset. On 14 November 1828 he was admitted a student of the Inner Temple, and was called to the bar on 22 November 1833.
In particular he was the inventor of the Single Transferable Voting system, now used in many places in the world. ==Life== He was born on 28 March 1806, was the only son of A Hare of Leigh, Dorset. On 14 November 1828 he was admitted a student of the Inner Temple, and was called to the bar on 22 November 1833.
He practised in the chancery courts and from 1841 reported in Vice-chancellor Wigram's court. He studied law, and was called to the Bar in November 1833 and published several works on judges' decisions.
He became a Peelite, and broke with the Conservatives, but did not wish to join the Liberal Party, preferring to maintain his independence. ==Family== He married, first, in Dorsetshire on 7 August 1837, Mary, daughter of Thomas Samson of Kingston Russell.
He practised in the chancery courts and from 1841 reported in Vice-chancellor Wigram's court. He studied law, and was called to the Bar in November 1833 and published several works on judges' decisions.
Elected a Conservative Party Member of Parliament, he resigned from political office in 1846.
In 1853 he became Inspector of Charities and was later Assistant Commissioner on the Royal City Charities Commission, about which he published several books.
She died on 21 October 1855, and was buried in the churchyard of Brompton church.
Under Hare's method, simply dividing the vote by the number of seats constituted the quota and then the surplus was expected to be distributed 'at random'. Hare's famous original work Machinery of Representation appeared in 1857 (in two editions) and many editions of his equally famous Treatise on the Election of Representatives: Parliamentary and Municipal appeared between 1859 and 1873.
Under Hare's method, simply dividing the vote by the number of seats constituted the quota and then the surplus was expected to be distributed 'at random'. Hare's famous original work Machinery of Representation appeared in 1857 (in two editions) and many editions of his equally famous Treatise on the Election of Representatives: Parliamentary and Municipal appeared between 1859 and 1873.
Hare married, secondly, on 4 April 1872, Eleanor Bowes Benson (1833–1890), second sister of Edward White Benson, archbishop of Canterbury, by whom he had issue Mary Eleanor (1874–1883). ==Views== Hare was said to have been 'conspicuous for great industry – to have wide interests in life and clearness of intellectual vision'.
By 1873, however, he had adapted his ideas to take account of the secret vote.
Under Hare's method, simply dividing the vote by the number of seats constituted the quota and then the surplus was expected to be distributed 'at random'. Hare's famous original work Machinery of Representation appeared in 1857 (in two editions) and many editions of his equally famous Treatise on the Election of Representatives: Parliamentary and Municipal appeared between 1859 and 1873.
Sir Thomas Hare (28 March 1806 in England – 6 May 1891) was a British lawyer, MP and proponent of electoral reform.
Parsons, Thomas Hare and Political Representation in Victorian Britain (Palgrave Macmillan, 2009) Hare–Clark electoral system 1806 births 1891 deaths British political scientists Voting theorists Single transferable vote
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