About Joseph Hoare
Lived 1709 – 1802 (aged 92–93). Joseph Hoare was a writer.
Joseph Hoare (1709 – 26 May 1802) was a Welsh clergyman and Principal of Jesus College, Oxford, from 1768 to 1802.
The son of Joseph Hoare, from Cardiff, Wales, Hoare studied at Jesus College from 1727 (when he was 18), obtaining his BA in 1730 and his MA in 1733. He was a Prebendary of Westminster Abbey. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in May 1753. . He was appointed Principal of Jesus in 1768. During his time as Principal, he donated £200 towards restoration of the college's Old Quadrangle. In 1798, he also subscribed £100 for the "prosecution of the [French Revolutionary] war" and £21 for muskets and necessaries for the University corps.
Hoare held the post of Principal for forty-four years, the third-longest time in the college's history. The following epitaph was composed on the unusual manner of his death:
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