Angelina Margaret Hoare

Angelina Margaret Hoare (17 May 1843 – 10 January 1892) was a missionary from Kent, England, who worked to develop women's education in British India.

Background Hoare was born on 17 May 1843 in Spring Gardens, London. She was the daughter of the banker Henry Hoare (1807-1866) and his wife Lady Mary Marsham, the third daughter of Charles Marsham, 2nd Earl of Romney. She was the sixth child in a family of twelve and was educated at home. Her brother Walter Hoare was a cleric, and served as curate to Robert Milman, who became Bishop of Calcutta. In 1874 Maria Milman, the sister of Robert Milman, invited the Hoare daughters to India to help in the zenana missions. She started many other educational institutions in India, mostly funded through fundraising in England and donations from her family banking connections.

She also lived among the local people, adopted Indian dress and learnt Bengali. She was buried in the English cemetery in Calcutta and a memorial to her was erected in the Cathedral.

On her death, Ralph Johnson, the then Bishop of Calcutta, praised her, stating: ...be assured, all of you that her devoted life has not been lost, for the public of Calcutta. The work she has done can never be altogether lost sight of. Not to mention the seed she has sown in the hearts of her beloved children in the Diocesan School of Calcutta and other schools in the Sundarbans, which will bear fruit in the generations to come... After her death, a biography of her life titled Life of Angelina Margaret Hoare by her Sisters and Mrs. Walter M. Hoare was published in 1897.