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==Life==

He was the eldest son of [[Francis Hare-Naylor]] and his first wife [[Georgiana Shipley]], born in Italy. At the period of the [[Italian campaign of 1796–1797]], his parents left him in [[Bologna]] where they had been living, to return to England on family business after the death of his grandfather Robert Hare-Naylor.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Hare |first1=Augustus J. C. |title=The Story of My Life |date=1896 |publisher=George Allen |page=6|volume=I |url=https://www.google.com/books?id=HeVrJuXLWFMC&pg=PA6 |language=en}}</ref>

In England, reunited with his parents, Hare had as tutors a German, Dr. Lehmann, to 1802, and then [[William Laurence Brown]]. He entered [[Lincoln’s Inn]] in 1804, and matriculated at [[Christ Church, Oxford]] in 1806.<ref name=”alox”/>

England, reunited with his parents, Hare had as tutors a German, Dr. Lehmann, to 1802, and then [[William Laurence Brown]]. He entered [[Lincoln’s Inn]] in 1804, and matriculated at [[Christ Church, Oxford]] in 1806.<ref name=”alox”/>

==Works==

Francis George Hare or Hare-Naylor (1786–1842)^[1] was a well-connected English independent scholar, who spent much of his life as an expatriate in Italy. He became a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1812.

He was the eldest son of Francis Hare-Naylor and his first wife Georgiana Shipley, born in Italy. At the period of the Italian campaign of 1796–1797, his parents left him in Bologna where they had been living, to return to England on family business after the death of his grandfather Robert Hare-Naylor.^[2] Bologna formed part of the Papal States, but from the Armistice of Bologna in 1796 papal control ceased. The Hare children, apart from the second son Augustus, were left there with servant, and Francis lodged with the Spanish refugee Jesuit Emanuele Aponte. He was taught by the polyglot Jesuit Giuseppe Gasparo Mezzofanti, and Clotilde Tambroni.^[3]

The Hare-Naylors returned to Bologna in 1798, taking back to England their children Julius, Marcus and Clemetina; Francis Hare remained as a pupil of Mezzofanti.^[3] Later reunited with his parents in England, Hare had as tutors a German, Dr. Lehmann, to 1802, and then William Laurence Brown. He entered Lincoln’s Inn in 1804, and matriculated at Christ Church, Oxford in 1806.^[1]

The only acknowledged publications by Francis Hare were contributions to Guesses at Truth, a collection of aphorisms (first edition 1827, anonymous, 2 vols.). It was the work of the four brothers, initially mostly the work of Augustus, supported by Julius. Francis Hare had a commonplace book of writings, and his aphorisms were signed “R.” The other brother Marcus wrote those signed “A.”^[4]

His son Augustus John Cuthbert Hare cites in his works unpublished Reminiscences by his father.

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Hare was “a celebrated wit and conversationalist, sarcastically nicknamed ‘the silent Hare’ for his loquacity.”^[5] According to Rees Howell Gronow

He could not only speak every European language, but all the various patois of each tongue, with a rapid and effervescent utterance that reminded one of the rushing of of some Alpine torrent, or Pyrenean Gave battling with the impediments that obstruct its course.^[6]

A witticism attributed to Hare: when William Drummond of Logiealmond, noted for his gambling, said in public he had just lost his wife, Hare replied “Lost! What at? Quinze or Hazard?”^[7]

At a London dinner party in 1839 given by Richard Monckton Milnes, Charles Sumner encountered “Italian Hare”, in the company of Edward Bulwer-Lytton, Charles Macaulay, Robert Monteith and Stafford O’Brien.^[8]

Hare married in 1828 Anne Frances Paul (died 1864), eldest daughter of Sir John Dean Paul, 1st Baronet.^[9] Their children included:

Francis George Hare (1830–1868), army officer, gambler imprisoned for debt and follower of Garibaldi.^[10]
William Robert Hare (1831–1867), army officer.^[11]

Their son Augustus John Cuthbert Hare (1834–1903) was adopted when young by Maria Hare, widow of Augustus William Hare.

Hare as an infant sat in 1788 for a portrait by Joshua Reynolds, now in the Louvre. It was left in 1855 by his brother Julius to Maria Hare, widow of his brother Augustus William. Following an 1869 case Paul v Hare heard before John Mellor at Westminster Hall, ownership changed.^[12]^[13]

^ ^a ^b Foster, Joseph (1888–1891). “Hare, Francis George” . Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715–1886. Oxford: James Parker – via Wikisource.
^ Hare, Augustus J. C. (1896). The Story of My Life. Vol. I. George Allen. p. 6.
^ ^a ^b The Athenaeum. British Periodicals Limited. 1872. p. 709.
^ Hare, Julius Charles; Hare, Augustus William (1876). Guesses at Truth. Macmillan and Company. p. xxv and note.
^ Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft (1995). The Journals of Mary Shelley, 1814-1844. Johns Hopkins University Press. p. 610. ISBN 978-0-8018-5088-2.
^ https://www.google.com/books?id=3PqmxWndj38C&pg=PA98.
^ Byron, George Gordon (1903). Coleridge, Ernest Hartley; Prothero, Rowland Edmund (eds.). The Works of Lord Byron: Poetry. Vol. VI. J. Murray. pp. 528-529 note 1.
^ Pierce, Edward Lillie, ed. (1893). Memoir and Letters of Charles Sumner. Vol. II: 1838-1845. Roberts Brothers. p. 68.
^ Burke, Bernard (1878). A Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Peerage and Baronetage of the British Empire (40th ed.). London: Harrison. p. 939.
^ “Hare (or Hare-Naylor), Francis George (HR848FG)”. A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
^ “Hare, William Robert (HR850WR)”. A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
^ Penny, Nicholas, ed. (1986). Reynolds: Paris, Grand Palais, 9 Oct. – 16 Dec. 1985; London, Royal Academy of Arts, 16 Jan. – 31 March 1986. London: Weidenfeld and Nicolson. p. 318. ISBN 0297786873.
^ The Law Journal. E.B. Ince. 1872. pp. 5–6.

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