Capital Management, owned by Schroders. This was followed in March 2017 by disposing of its investment dealing and custody business to Canaccord Genuity Wealth Management. In 2018 Rennie Hoare, who was previously the head of philanthropy was appointed a shareholding partner, in an effort to bring “millennial thinking” into the bank. According to the Sunday Times Rich List in 2019, the Hoare family is worth £400 million – an increase of £40 million from the year before. In March 2019, the bank opened a branch in Cambridge, the first ever outside London. In popular culture In Georgette Heyer's 1965 Regency Romance novel The Grand Sophy, Sir Horace Stanton-Lacy, the father of the heroine Sophy, banked with Hoare's. "My bankers are Hoares" is one of Jack Aubrey's favourite puns in several of the books from the Aubrey-Maturin series by Patrick O'Brian. In Tahir Shah's 2012 historical novel, Timbuctoo, based on the 1816 memoir The Narrative of Robert Adams, C. Hoare & Co. were the bankers to The Royal African Committee (cf Royal African Company). Several scenes take place at Hoare's Bank on Fleet Street. References Sources External links Private banks Banks based in the City of London Luxury brands History of banking Banks established in 1672 1672 establishments in England Hoare family Henokiens companies Family-owned companies of the United Kingdom