Joseph Hoare (bishop of Victoria)
Joseph Charles Hoare (15 November 1851 – 18 September 1906) was the Anglican Bishop of Victoria, Hong Kong from 1898 to 1906.
Life and ministry
[edit]Hoare was born in Ramsgate on 15 November 1851. His father was the Revd Edward Hoare, an honorary canon of Canterbury Cathedral.[1] He was educated at Tonbridge School and Trinity College, Cambridge.[2][3]
Hoare was ordained in 1875 and was a curate at Holy Trinity Church in Tunbridge Wells.[4] After this he was principal of the Church Missionary Society (CMS) training college in Ningbo from 1878 to 1898.[5]
Hoare married his first cousin, Alice Julian Patteson on 14 December 1882 at Thorpe-next-Norwich.[6] Alice died in 1883.
Hoare's last post was as Bishop of Victoria, Hong Kong[7] and the Warden of St. Paul's College, Hong Kong, to which he was appointed in 1898.[citation needed] He was consecrated a bishop on the Feast of St Barnabas 1898 (11 June), at St Paul's Cathedral by Frederick Temple, Archbishop of Canterbury.[8]
Trinity College, Cambridge, honoured him with the Doctor of Divinity (DD) degree on 18 January 1900.[9]
On 18 September 1906, Hoare and four St Paul's College students were drowned amidst a typhoon during a preaching journey in Castle Peak, Tuen Mun.[10]
References
[edit]- ^ Who was Who 1897–1990, London, A & C Black 1991 ISBN 0-7136-3457-X
- ^ "Hoare, Joseph Charles (HR870JC)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
- ^ "University Intelligence", The Times, 7 June 1878, p. 10.
- ^ "Church website". Archived from the original on 6 May 2021. Retrieved 18 February 2010.
- ^ CMS archives Archived 2010-01-28 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Norfolk Record Office; Norwich, Norfolk, England; Reference: PD 228/162
- ^ Ecclesiastical Intelligence The Times 11 June 1898; pg. 13; Issue 35540; col A
- ^ "Consecration of bishops". Church Times. No. 1847. 17 June 1898. p. 687. ISSN 0009-658X. Retrieved 19 September 2020 – via UK Press Online archives.
- ^ "University intelligence". The Times. No. 36043. London. 19 January 1900. p. 7.
- ^ Buckland, Augustus Robert (1912). . In Lee, Sidney (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography (2nd supplement). London: Smith, Elder & Co.
Sources
[edit]A. R. Buckland, rev. H. C. G. Matthew. "Hoare, Joseph Charles (1851–1906)". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/33896. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
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