Around 1830, Hoare was curate at St. John's, Limerick. He raised funds in England and Scotland, in 1834, to erect a church for the parish of St. Lawrence, allowing for the wishes of Edmund Pery, 1st Earl of Limerick, which meant that the church would be a chapel, attached to a charity, in this case an Asylum for Blind Females.[10] The chapel was built that year, to a design by Joseph Fogarty.[11]
The House of Lords committee on Richard Whately's Irish national education system heard evidence from Hoare.[15] In 1865 he joined the Church Association.[16] He was a Vice-President of the National Education League for Ireland.[17]
Hoare was noted as an evangelical preacher, and edited The Christian Herald, a prophetical journal that appeared from 1830 to 1835, and was published in Dublin. Its editorial line was historicist and premillennialist.[18][19] It reported in detail on the first two prophetic conferences at Powerscourt House, and ran some articles by John Nelson Darby.[20][21] A sequel publication, under the same title, was later started by Michael Paget Baxter.[22]
The attitude of The Christian Herald to eschatology had something in common with other periodicals, Churchman's Monthly Review, and The Quarterly Journal of Prophecy, and the views of Thomas Nolan (1809–1882). The central idea was that the personal reign of Christ would be prolonged indefinitely.[23]
Works
Hoare wrote numerous sermons;[1] and other works including:
Practical Observations on Church Reform, the Tithe Question and National Education in Ireland (1838)[24]
The Tendency of the Principles advocated in the Tracts for the Times considered (1841).[25] In this work on the Tracts for the Times, cast as advice to a candidate for ordination, Hoare advised against emphasis on the antiquity of the Irish church, as an argument easily subverted to Catholic ends.[26]
The Time of the End; or, The World, The Visible Church, and the People of God, at the Advent of the Lord. (1846)
The Duty and Expediency on the Part of the Landed Proprietors of Ireland, of Co-operating with the Board of National Education; Considered in a Letter to a Deputy-Lieutenant of the Co. Sligo (1847)[27]
The English Settler's Guide Through Irish Difficulties; Or, a Hand-book for Ireland, with Reference to Present and Future Prospects (1850)[28]
Remarks on certain mis-statements as to the extent of scriptural education in Ireland, previous to the establishment of the National System (1850).[29] Hoare was questioned in 1864 about the effect of the National Education System in Ireland, in particular on the financing of the Kildare Place Society, by a House of Lords committee.[30]
English Roots, and the Deviation of Words from the Ancient Anglo-Saxon, two lectures (1856)[31]
Exotics: Or, English Words Derived from Latin Roots: Ten Lectures (1863)[32]
Family
Hoare married, first, in 1832, Louisa Mary O'Donoghue (died 1858); and secondly, in 1859, as her third husband, Harriet Wilson (née Cramp). He had by his first wife two sons, including Edward Newenham Hoare, rector of Acrise and writer of tracts (with whom as an author he is sometimes confused), and three daughters. There were no children of the second marriage, but Hoare became stepfather to Emma Harriet (née Wilson), 12th Baroness Berners.[1] He and Henry William Wilson, 11th Baron Berners had in common an interest in the Church Association.[16]
^Burtchaell, G.D; Sadlier, T.U (1935). Alumni Dublinenses : a register of the students, graduates, professors and provosts of Trinity College in the University of Dublin (1593-1860). Dublin: Alex Thom and Co. p. 402.
^Cotton, Henry (1848–1878). Fasti Ecclesiae Hibernicae: The succession of the prelates. Vol. 1. Dublin: Hodges & Smith. p. 452.
^Pamphlet containing the "recommendations" of the Royal Commission of Inquiry into Primary Education (Ireland) Great Britain Royal Commission of Inquiry into Primary Education (Ireland), Cowen Tracts 1871 at p. 96. Contributed by: Newcastle University JSTOR60202599
^Peter Nockles, Church or Protestant Sect? The Church of Ireland, High Churchmanship, and the Oxford Movement, 1822–1869, The Historical JournalVol. 41, No. 2 (Jun., 1998), pp. 457–493, at p. 463 note 33. Published by: Cambridge University Press.
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^John Garrett, An address on education in Ireland to the archbishops, bishops, and clergy of the Church of Ireland, with an appendix, containing an examination of the 'principle' involved, and remarks on some plans suggested for removing the difficulties hitherto existing in the way of the Church schools being placed under the National Board, Knowsley Pamphlet Collection
1860, pp. 18–21. Contributed by: University of Liverpool. JSTOR60101313