Joseph Hoare (bishop of Victoria)

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

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

1. Who was Who 1897–1990, London, A & C Black 1991 ISBN 0-7136-3457-X
2. "Hoare, Joseph Charles (HR870JC)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
3. "University Intelligence", The Times, 7 June 1878, p. 10.
4. "Church website". Archived from the original on 6 May 2021. Retrieved 18 February 2010.
5. CMS archives Archived 2010-01-28 at the Wayback Machine
6. Norfolk Record Office; Norwich, Norfolk, England; Reference: PD 228/162
7. Ecclesiastical Intelligence The Times 11 June 1898; pg. 13; Issue 35540; col A
8. "Consecration of bishops". Church Times. No. 1847. 17 June 1898. p. 687. ISSN 0009-658X. Retrieved 19 September 2020 – via UK Press Online archives.
9. "University intelligence". The Times. No. 36043. London. 19 January 1900. p. 7.
10. Buckland, Augustus Robert (1912). "Hoare, Joseph Charles" . In Lee, Sidney (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography (2nd supplement). London: Smith, Elder & Co.

Sources

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.)

Religious titles
Preceded by John Shaw Burdon	Bishop of Victoria, Hong Kong 1898–1906	Succeeded by Gerald Heath Lander
Academic offices
Preceded by John Shaw Burdon	Principal of St. Paul's College, Hong Kong 1898–1906	Succeeded by Gerald Heath Lander