Background
Hoare was born in Ramsgate on 15 November 1851. His father was the Revd E. Hoare, an honorary canon of Canterbury Cathedral.
Hoare was born in Ramsgate on 15 November 1851. His father was the Revd E. Hoare, an honorary canon of Canterbury Cathedral.
He was educated at Tonbridge School and Trinity College, Cambridge.
Hoare was ordained in 1875 and was a curate at Holy Trinity Church in Tunbridge Wells. After this he was principal of the Church Missionary Society (Content Management System) training college in Ningbo from 1878 to 1898. Hoare"s last post was as Bishop of Victoria, Hong Kong and the Warden of Saint Paul"s College, Hong Kong, to which he was appointed in 1898.
Trinity College, Cambridge, honoured him with the Doctor of Divinity (Doctor of Divinity) degree on 18 January 1900.
On 18 September 1906, Hoare and four Street Paul"s College students were drowned amidst a typhoon during a preaching journey in Castle Peak, Tuen Mun.
