The arms are those of Hare, baronets, impaling those of Geary, as borne by Thomas Hare, 1st Bt., the son of Thomas Leigh, who assumed the surname of Hare on inheriting the property of his maternal grandmother Mary Hare, second daughter of Sir Thomas Hare, Bt. This Sir Thomas Hare married in 1779 Mary, daughter of Admiral Sir Francis Geary, Bt. by whom he had no issue. He married as a second wife, in 1803, Ann Elizabeth, daughter of Admiral Thomas, Lord Graves. A soldier, Sir Thomas Hare served in America during the Revolution. He died in 1834.