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Adm. pens. (age 16) at TRINITY, Jan. 9, 1812. B. Sept. 13, 1795, at Valdagno, near Vicenza, Italy. [3rd s. of Francis (Hare-Naylor), of Hurstmonceux, Sussex, by his first wife, Georgina, dau. of Dr Shipley, Bishop of St Asaph's.] Schools [Tonbridge and] Charterhouse. ' Matric. Michs. 1812; Scholar, 1814; B.A. 1816; M.A. 1819. Fellow, 1818. Assistant Tutor, 1822-32. Classical Lecturer, 1822. Adm. at Lincoln's Inn, Nov. 8, 1816, and took chambers in Hare Court, Temple, but soon abandoned a legal career. Had visited Weimar in his boyhood and there laid the foundation of his remarkable knowledge of German literature. Ord. deacon (Bath and Wells, Litt. dim. from Ely) Mar. 23, 1826; priest (Ely) May 21, 1826. R. of Hurstmonceux, Sussex, 1832-55 (John Sterling was his curate, and Bunsen, for a time, his neighbour). Archdeacon of Lewes, 1840-55. Preb. of Chichester, 1851-5. Chaplain to the Queen, 1853-5. Married, 1844, Esther Maurice, sister of his friend and pupil, Frederick Denison Maurice. Was remarkable for vehemence, sympathy, unpunctuality and eccentricity generally. Joint translator of Niebuhr's History of Rome, etc. Author, The Victory of Faith; The Mission of the Comforter; Vindications of Niebuhr, Luther, and others. Edited Philological Museum. Died s.p. Jan. 23, 1855, at Hurstmonceux rectory. The Hare Prize was founded in 1861 by his friends to testify their admiration. His collection of oil paintings was offered to the University by his widow in 1855 and is now in the Fitzwilliam Museum. (Boase, I. 1334; D.N.B.; Carthusian Worthies; Burke, L.G.; Tonbridge Sch. Reg. (Julius only); Inns of Court; The Guardian, Mar. 8, 1882.)