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Ernest Soares
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<h2 id="early-life">Early life</h2> <p>Soares was the son of José Luís Xavier Soares, a <a href="/facts/Liverpool/kTqATlxg">Liverpool</a> merchant, tracing his roots to <a href="/facts/Ucassaim/SYrk49CL">Ucassaim</a>, <a href="/facts/Portuguese_Goa/jeLpNXfc">Portuguese Goa</a> and Hannah Hollingsworth of Liverpool.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:3" href="#fn:3"><sup>3</sup></a> Prior to conversion to <a href="/facts/Roman_Catholicism/rJ4F4gqH">Roman Catholicism</a>, the family were <a href="/facts/Gaud_Saraswat_Brahmin/2rl0eRVt">Gaud Saraswat Brahmins</a> (GSB) with the surname Gaitonde.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:4" href="#fn:4"><sup>4</sup></a> </p> <h2 id="career">Career</h2> <p>He was educated at <a href="/facts/St_John%2527s_College%2c_Cambridge/NRRfwkfh">St John's College, Cambridge</a>, where he read law.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:5" href="#fn:5"><sup>5</sup></a> He was a partner in Allen, Prestage and Soares, solicitors, of <a href="/facts/Manchester/2Do01QHs">Manchester</a>. In 1900 he was elected to the <a href="/facts/British_House_of_Commons/IyyztqLo">House of Commons</a> for <a href="/facts/Barnstaple_(UK_Parliament_constituency)/BYzcTH6X">Barnstaple</a>, and rented Upcott House, where he was resident in 1901, a large white stucco Georgian mansion one mile from the centre of Barnstaple and a prominent landmark for the voters and inhabitants of that town, from Sir William Robert Williams, 3rd Baronet of nearby <a href="/facts/Manor_of_Heanton_Punchardon/JhAescem">Heanton Court</a>. He served in the <a href="/facts/Liberal_Government_1905-1915/FYCAnbk7">Liberal administration</a> of <a href="/facts/H._H._Asquith/PBNVY1Pt">H. H. Asquith</a> as a <a href="/facts/Lord_of_the_Treasury/F677eh2S">Junior Lord of the Treasury</a> from 1910 to 1911. The latter year failing health forced him to resign this post and his seat in the House of Commons. He was knighted the same year. </p> <h2 id="marriage-and-children">Marriage and children</h2> <p>When Soares was working as a solicitor in Manchester and residing at <i>Woodheys</i>,<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:6" href="#fn:6"><sup>6</sup></a><a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:7" href="#fn:7"><sup>7</sup></a> on Washway Road, in <a href="/facts/Ashton_upon_Mersey/XfD25cCB">Ashton upon Mersey</a> (today <a href="/facts/Sale%2c_Greater_Manchester/ascQPeCP">Sale</a>), he married Kate Carolyn Lord (1864-1932), daughter of his then near-neighbour <a href="/facts/Samuel_Lord/jLyIk6V7">Samuel Lord</a> (1803-1889), the British-born American retail millionaire and founder of <a href="/facts/Lord_%2526_Taylor/7621MHMj">Lord & Taylor</a> today the oldest luxury department store in the United States. Lord was born in <a href="/facts/Saddleworth/tAYe2yhH">Saddleworth</a>, <a href="/facts/West_Riding_of_Yorkshire/Tey2GKGg">West Riding of Yorkshire</a>, and emigrated to America in about 1821. Having retired from managing his retail empire, in 1866 he returned to England and resided at <i>Oakleigh</i>, on <i>The Avenue</i> in <a href="/facts/Ashton_upon_Mersey/XfD25cCB">Ashton upon Mersey</a>. Lord left nine million dollars (£1.848 million<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:8" href="#fn:8"><sup>8</sup></a>) at his death.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:9" href="#fn:9"><sup>9</sup></a> By his wife Soares had one daughter and only child: </p> <ul><li>Kate Rose Mary Soares (b. 1894), who married Captain <a href="/facts/W._D._M._Bell/xbCB4Ae7">Walter Bell</a> (1880–1954), <a href="/facts/Military_Cross/omX0plra">MC</a>,<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:10" href="#fn:10"><sup>10</sup></a> known as <i>Karamojo Bell</i>, the Scottish adventurer and African <a href="/facts/White_hunter/lrGauzK6">big game hunter</a>.</li></ul> <h2 id="death">Death</h2> <p>He died in <a href="/facts/Mayfair/QaoyPLfI">Mayfair</a>, London, in March 1926, at the age of 61. </p> <ul><li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20150215181722/http://www.leighrayment.com/commons.htm">Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs </a></li> <li><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20140408042211/http://www.luso.u-net.com/manchest.htm">Biography of Sir Ernest Soares at The Luso Pages</a></li> <li>Profiles of Eminent Goans, Past and Present; Clement J Vaz; published 1997; pg 262.</li></ul> <h2 id="external-links">External links</h2> <ul><li><i><a href="/facts/Hansard/FDXT84He">Hansard</a></i> 1803–2005: <a href="https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/people/mr-ernest-soares">contributions in Parliament by Ernest Soares</a></li></ul> <h2 id="references">References</h2> <ol> <li id="fn:1"><p>Address in 1917, per Western Times newspaper, Devon, 1 Mar 1917 [1] <a href="http://www.genesreunited.co.uk/searchbna/results?memberlastsubclass=none&searchhistorykey=0&keywords=kate%20mc%20aloon&county=devon%2C%20england" target="_blank">http://www.genesreunited.co.uk/searchbna/results?memberlastsubclass=none&searchhistorykey=0&keywords=kate%20mc%20aloon&county=devon%2C%20england</a> <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:2"><p>Address before 1917, per Western Times newspaper, Devon, 1 Mar 1917 <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:3"><p>Walford, Edward (January 1860). "The county families of the United Kingdom; or, Royal manual of the titled and untitled aristocracy of England, Wales, Scotland, and Ireland". <a href="https://books.google.com/books?id=TuHIDwAAQBAJ&q=ernest+soares+hannah+hollingsworth&pg=PA1242" target="_blank">https://books.google.com/books?id=TuHIDwAAQBAJ&q=ernest+soares+hannah+hollingsworth&pg=PA1242</a> <a href="#fnref:3" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:4"><p>Vaz, J. Clement (1997). Profiles of Eminent Goans, Past and Present. Concept Publishing Company. p. 262. <a href="#fnref:4" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:5"><p>"Soares,Ernest Joseph (SRS881EJ)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge. <a href="http://venn.lib.cam.ac.uk/cgi-bin/search-2018.pl?sur=&suro=w&fir=&firo=c&cit=&cito=c&c=all&z=all&tex=SRS881EJ&sye=&eye=&col=all&maxcount=50" target="_blank">http://venn.lib.cam.ac.uk/cgi-bin/search-2018.pl?sur=&suro=w&fir=&firo=c&cit=&cito=c&c=all&z=all&tex=SRS881EJ&sye=&eye=&col=all&maxcount=50</a> <a href="#fnref:5" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:6"><p>Website created and compiled by Charlie Hulme and Lis Nicolson, with the assistance of the John Cassidy Committee, Slane History & Archaeology Society.[2] <a href="http://www.johncassidy.org.uk/avenue.html" target="_blank">http://www.johncassidy.org.uk/avenue.html</a> <a href="#fnref:6" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:7"><p>Now "Woodheys Social Club" <a href="#fnref:7" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:8"><p>Lawrence H. Officer, "Dollar-Pound Exchange Rate From 1791," MeasuringWorth, 2017 [3] <a href="https://www.measuringworth.com/datasets/exchangepound/result.php" target="_blank">https://www.measuringworth.com/datasets/exchangepound/result.php</a> <a href="#fnref:8" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:9"><p>Website created and compiled by Charlie Hulme and Lis Nicolson, with the assistance of the John Cassidy Committee, Slane History & Archaeology Society.[4] <a href="http://www.johncassidy.org.uk/avenue.html" target="_blank">http://www.johncassidy.org.uk/avenue.html</a> <a href="#fnref:9" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:10"><p>Western Times newspaper, Devon, 2 Mar 1917 <a href="#fnref:10" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> </ol>