Education
Winchester College; New College.
Winchester College; New College.
He was the author of a history of Germany. He was sent by the widow of Sir William Jones, whose godson he was, to Winchester College, and New College, Oxford, in the latter of which he was for some time a tutor. Weak health prevented his especially distinguishing himself, but in 1810 he was elected to a vacancy at New College.
With his school-friends he established one of the first Oxford debating clubs, The Attic Society, which supplied his chief interest at college.
Lady Jones wished him to qualify himself for the rich family living of Hurstmonceaux by taking orders, and he incurred her extreme displeasure by the repugnance he felt to such a step. After a long absence in Italy, Hare returned to New College as a tutor in 1818.
In June 1824 he published a defence of the Gospel narrative of the Resurrection, entitled A Layman"s Letters to the Authors of the "Trial of the Witnesses". In 1825, he was ordained in Winchester College Chapel.
On 2 June 1829, having been recently appointed to the small college living of Alton-Barnes, Hare married Maria Leycester, daughter of the rector of Stoke-upon-Terne.
Entering the Church, he became incumbent of the rural parish of Alton Barnes during the last three years of this life. His failing health obliged them to go for the winter to Italy, where he died at Rome, 18 February 1834. His widow, who survived till 13 November 1870, went to live in the parish of her brother-in-law Julius, and is buried in Hurstmonceaux churchyard.