William Henry Hoare

William Henry Hoare (31 October 1809 – 22 February 1888) was an English cleric and author.

Life Born on 31 October 1809 at Penzance, he was the second son of William Henry Hoare (1776–1819) of Broomfield House, Battersea, Surrey, and his Louisa Elizabeth Noel, daughter of Sir Gerard Noel, 2nd Baronet. He graduated B.A. in 1831 as a member of St John's College, Cambridge, was a wrangler, obtained a first class in the Classical Tripos, and was bracketed with Joseph Blakesley for the Chancellor's medals. He proceeded M.A. in 1834. He was a Fellow of the college from 1833 to 1835.

By the mid-1830s Hoare had married, and was living at Ashurst Park near Tunbridge Wells. His brother Henry Hoare started living at Staplehurst, not far away, at this period, shortly before his marriage of 1836. Ordained in 1841, Hoare became that year a curate of All Saints' Church, Southampton. They had rowed together in the college boat, and Tyrrell's biographer describes Hoare as his "bosom friend". He remained in England and was a confidential correspondent for Tyrrell.

Hoare was later diocesan inspector of the diocese of Chichester. He died on 22 February 1888 at Oakfield, Crawley, Sussex, which he had purchased, and where he lived after 1848, and was buried on 29 February in Worth churchyard. Three pamphlets in the form of letters addressed to Sir George Grey, 2nd Baronet, reissued together in 1850 as Present Position of the Church. Outlines of Ecclesiastical History before the Reformation, London, 1852; 2nd edit. 1857.

To the Colenso controversy, he contributed: Charles Noel Hoare (born 1841), naval officer.