He was born at Valdagno, near Vicenza, in Italy. His parents were Francis Hare-Naylor and Georgina Shipley, a daughter of Bishop Shipley. On the death of his mother in 1806, Julius was sent to Tonbridge School, where he remained till 1812, when he entered Trinity College, Cambridge.
Trinity College.
There he became fellow in 1818, and after another trip abroad he began to read law in London in the following year. From 1822 to 1832 he was assistant tutor at Trinity College. Before taking up residence in his parish at Buckwell Place, he went abroad again, and in Rome he met Chevalier Bunsen, who afterwards dedicated to him part of his work, Hippolytus and his Age.
In 1840 Hare was appointed archdeacon of Lewes, and in the same year preached a series of sermons at Cambridge (The Victory of Faith), followed in 1846 by a second, The Mission of the Comforter.
In 1851 he was collated to a prebend in Chichester. And in 1853 he became one of Queen Victoria"s chaplains.
Hare was a member of the Canterbury Association from March 1848.
