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A sequence of family events led up to the adoption. Augustus Hare’s great-uncle Robert Hare, rector of Herstmonceux, had died in 1832.<ref>{{alox2|title=Hare, Robert (2)}}</ref> Augustus William Hare, vicar of [[Alton Barnes]], refused the living, which was in the gift of the Hare family, represented by Francis George Hare who held the [[advowson]]. Julius Hare then accepted the living, first making a journey to Italy.<ref name=”DNBJCH”>{{cite DNB|wstitle=Hare, Julius Charles|volume=24}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Distad |first1=Norman Merrill |title=Guessing at Truth: The Life of Julius Charles Hare (1795-1855) |date=1979 |publisher=Patmos Press |isbn=978-0-915762-07-1 |page=116 |language=en}}</ref> Augustus William Hare travelled to Italy for his health, and died at Rome in February 1834; his widow Maria returned to England.<ref>{{cite DNB|wstitle=Hare, Augustus William|volume=24}}</ref> Julius Hare took up the post of rector of Herstmonceux and moved into [[Buckwell Place]].<ref name=”Barnes1″>{{cite book |last1=Barnes |first1=Malcolm |title=Augustus Hare: Victorian Gentleman |date=1985 |publisher=Allen & Unwin |location=London |isbn=004920100X |page=25 |language=en}}</ref>Maria went to Alton Barnes to settle her husband’s affairs. She then went to the Herstmonceux, at Julius’s invitation, and from there arranged for the care of the infant Augustus to transferred to her. This was handled by an English nurse going to Italy.<ref name=”Barnes2″>{{cite book |last1=Barnes |first1=Malcolm |title=Augustus Hare: Victorian Gentleman |date=1985 |publisher=Allen & Unwin |location=London |isbn=004920100X |pages=10–11 |language=en}}</ref> Two months after Augustus arrived with his nurse in Herstmonceux, Maria rented Lime House, near Buckwell Place, as her home.<ref name=”Barnes1″/>

A sequence of family events led up to the adoption. Augustus Hare’s great-uncle Robert Hare, rector of Herstmonceux, had died in 1832.<ref>{{alox2|title=Hare, Robert (2)}}</ref> Augustus William Hare, vicar of [[Alton Barnes]], refused the living, which was in the gift of the Hare family, represented by Francis George Hare who held the [[advowson]]. Julius Hare then accepted the living, first making a journey to Italy.<ref name=”DNBJCH”>{{cite DNB|wstitle=Hare, Julius Charles|volume=24}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Distad |first1=Norman Merrill |title=Guessing at Truth: The Life of Julius Charles Hare (1795-1855) |date=1979 |publisher=Patmos Press |isbn=978-0-915762-07-1 |page=116 |language=en}}</ref> Augustus William Hare travelled to Italy for his health, and died at Rome in February 1834; his widow Maria returned to England.<ref>{{cite DNB|wstitle=Hare, Augustus William|volume=24}}</ref> Julius Hare took up the post of rector of Herstmonceux and moved into [[Buckwell Place]].<ref name=”Barnes1″>{{cite book |last1=Barnes |first1=Malcolm |title=Augustus Hare: Victorian Gentleman |date=1985 |publisher=Allen & Unwin |location=London |isbn=004920100X |page=25 |language=en}}</ref>Maria went to Alton Barnes to settle her husband’s affairs. She then went to the Herstmonceux, at Julius’s invitation, and from there arranged for the care of the infant Augustus to transferred to her. This was handled by an English nurse going to Italy.<ref name=”Barnes2″>{{cite book |last1=Barnes |first1=Malcolm |title=Augustus Hare: Victorian Gentleman |date=1985 |publisher=Allen & Unwin |location=London |isbn=004920100X |pages=10–11 |language=en}}</ref> Two months after Augustus arrived with his nurse in Herstmonceux, Maria rented Lime House, near Buckwell Place, as her home.<ref name=”Barnes1″/>

==Maria Hare‘s circle and influences, education of Augustus==

==Hare circle==

[[John Sterling (author)|John Sterling]], a student of Julius Hare at Cambridge, became a curate at Herstmonceux in 1834; while he stayed not much longer than a year, he became a close friend of Maria Hare, who had long conversations with him.<ref name=”acad”>{{acad|id=STRN824J|name=Sterling, John}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Barnes |first1=Malcolm |title=Augustus Hare: Victorian Gentleman |date=1985 |publisher=Allen & Unwin |location=London |isbn=004920100X |page=200 note 15 |language=en}}</ref> He had been an associate a few years earlier of [[F. D. Maurice]], on the ”[[The Athenaeum (British magazine)|Athenaeum]]”, and through him the Hares encountered the Maurice family.<ref name=”acad”/><ref>{{cite book |last1=Barnes |first1=Malcolm |title=Augustus Hare: Victorian Gentleman |date=1985 |publisher=Allen & Unwin |location=London |isbn=004920100X |page=37 |language=en}}</ref> He had married in 1830 Susannah Barton;<ref name=”acad”/> Maurice’s first wife was her sister Anna.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Harrison |first1=J. F. C. |title=A History of the Working Men’s College: 1854-1954 |date=28 October 2013 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-1-134-53083-0 |page=47 |url=https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=ef7XAQAAQBAJ&pg=PA47 |language=en}}</ref> In 1844 Julius Hare married Esther Maurice, sister of F. D. Maurice.<ref name=”DNBJCH”/>

[[John Sterling (author)|John Sterling]], a student of Julius Hare at Cambridge, became a curate at Herstmonceux in 1834; while he stayed not much longer than a year, he became a close friend of Maria Hare, who had long conversations with him.<ref name=”acad”>{{acad|id=STRN824J|name=Sterling, John}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last1=Barnes |first1=Malcolm |title=Augustus Hare: Victorian Gentleman |date=1985 |publisher=Allen & Unwin |location=London |isbn=004920100X |page=200 note 15 |language=en}}</ref> He had been an associate a few years earlier of [[F. D. Maurice]], on the ”[[The Athenaeum (British magazine)|Athenaeum]]”, and through him the Hares encountered the Maurice family.<ref name=”acad”/><ref>{{cite book |last1=Barnes |first1=Malcolm |title=Augustus Hare: Victorian Gentleman |date=1985 |publisher=Allen & Unwin |location=London |isbn=004920100X |page=37 |language=en}}</ref> He had married in 1830 Susannah Barton;<ref name=”acad”/> Maurice’s first wife was her sister Anna.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Harrison |first1=J. F. C. |title=A History of the Working Men’s College: 1854-1954 |date=28 October 2013 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-1-134-53083-0 |page=47 |url=https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=ef7XAQAAQBAJ&pg=PA47 |language=en}}</ref> In 1844 Julius Hare married Esther Maurice, sister of F. D. Maurice.<ref name=”DNBJCH”/>

Maria Hare came under the influence of Priscilla Maurice, another sister of F. D. Maurice, in religious matters, and was a “strong [[evangelical]]”.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Barnes |first1=Malcolm |title=Augustus Hare: Victorian Gentleman |date=1985 |publisher=Allen & Unwin |location=London |isbn=004920100X |pages=13 and 38 |language=en}}</ref> Hare became in 1843 a boarding pupil of the Rev. Robert Kilvert, father of [[Francis Kilvert]], at Harnish Rectory, Hardenhuish, near [[Chippenham]];<ref name=”Barnes2″/><ref>{{cite book |last1=Kilvert |first1=Robert Francis |title=Kilvert’s Diary: 14 May 1874-18 March 1879 |date=1940 |publisher=Jonathan Cape |page=13|volume=3 |language=en}}</ref> the Rev. Kilvert had taken over at Alton Barnes after August William Hare’s death.<ref name=”Barnes2″/>

Maria Hare came under the influence of Priscilla Maurice, another sister of F. D. Maurice, in religious matters, and was a “strong [[evangelical]]”.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Barnes |first1=Malcolm |title=Augustus Hare: Victorian Gentleman |date=1985 |publisher=Allen & Unwin |location=London |isbn=004920100X |pages=13 and 38 |language=en}}</ref>

==Education==

Hare spent one year at [[Harrow School]] in 1846/7 but left for health reasons.<ref name=”ODNB”/> He attended the [[Southgate, London|Southgate]] school of the Rev. Charles Bradley (1815–1883), son of [[Charles Bradley (preacher)|Charles Bradley]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Barnes |first1=Malcolm |title=Augustus Hare: Victorian Gentleman |date=198 |publisher=Allen & Unwin |location=London |isbn=004920100X |page=58 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite ODNB|title=Bradley, Charles (1789–1871)|first=H. C. G.|last=Matthew|authorlink=Colin Matthew|id=3184}}</ref> In 1853, he matriculated at [[University College, Oxford]], where he graduated B.A. in 1856, M.A. in 1859.<ref>{{alox2|title=Hare, Augustus John Cuthbert}}</ref>

Hare spent one year at [[Harrow School]] in 1846/7 but left for health reasons.<ref name=”ODNB”/> He attended the [[Southgate, London|Southgate]] school of the Rev. Charles Bradley (1815–1883), son of [[Charles Bradley (preacher)|Charles Bradley]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Barnes |first1=Malcolm |title=Augustus Hare: Victorian Gentleman |date=198 |publisher=Allen & Unwin |location=London |isbn=004920100X |page=58 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{cite ODNB|title=Bradley, Charles (1789–1871)|first=H. C. G.|last=Matthew|authorlink=Colin Matthew|id=3184}}</ref> In 1853, he matriculated at [[University College, Oxford]], where he graduated B.A. in 1856, M.A. in 1859.<ref>{{alox2|title=Hare, Augustus John Cuthbert}}</ref>

==After Oxford==

==After Oxford==

English writer (1834–1903)

Augustus John Cuthbert Hare (13 March 1834 – 22 January 1903) was an English man of letters and painter. His autobiography The Story of My Life (1896–1900) details both a devotion to his adoptive mother Maria, and an intense unhappiness with his home life and early education. Baigent in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography states that the misery memoir aspect of this work has “unwisely” been taken literally.[1][2]

He was born in Rome, the youngest son of Francis George Hare of Herstmonceux, East Sussex, and Gresford, Flintshire, Wales, and his wife Anne Frances Paul, daughter of Sir John Dean Paul, 1st Baronet. He was adopted by his aunt Maria Hare née Leycester, daughter of the Rev. Oswald Leycester, rector of Stoke on Tern, and widow of Augustus William Hare. Julius Hare was his uncle.[1][3]

A sequence of family events led up to the adoption. Augustus Hare’s great-uncle Robert Hare, rector of Herstmonceux, had died in 1832.[4] Augustus William Hare, vicar of Alton Barnes, refused the living, which was in the gift of the Hare family, represented by Francis George Hare who held the advowson. Julius Hare then accepted the living, first making a journey to Italy.[5][6] Augustus William Hare travelled to Italy for his health, and died at Rome in February 1834; his widow Maria returned to England.[7] Julius Hare took up the post of rector of Herstmonceux and moved into Buckwell Place.[8]Maria went to Alton Barnes to settle her husband’s affairs. She then went to the Herstmonceux, at Julius’s invitation, and from there arranged for the care of the infant Augustus to transferred to her. This was handled by an English nurse going to Italy.[9] Two months after Augustus arrived with his nurse in Herstmonceux, Maria rented Lime House, near Buckwell Place, as her home.[8]

John Sterling, a student of Julius Hare at Cambridge, became a curate at Herstmonceux in 1834; while he stayed not much longer than a year, he became a close friend of Maria Hare, who had long conversations with him.[10][11] He had been an associate a few years earlier of F. D. Maurice, on the Athenaeum, and through him the Hares encountered the Maurice family.[10][12] He had married in 1830 Susannah Barton;[10] Maurice’s first wife was her sister Anna.[13] In 1844 Julius Hare married Esther Maurice, sister of F. D. Maurice.[5]

Maria Hare came under the influence of Priscilla Maurice, another sister of F. D. Maurice, in religious matters, and was a “strong evangelical“.[14]

Hare became in 1843 a boarding pupil of the Rev. Robert Kilvert, father of Francis Kilvert, at Harnish Rectory, Hardenhuish, near Chippenham;[9][15] the Rev. Kilvert had taken over at Alton Barnes after August William Hare’s death.[9] He spent one year at Harrow School in 1846/7 but left for health reasons.[1] He attended the Southgate school of the Rev. Charles Bradley (1815–1883), son of Charles Bradley.[16][17] In 1853, he matriculated at University College, Oxford, where he graduated B.A. in 1856, M.A. in 1859.[18]

In 1860 Maria Hare bought a house “Little Ridge”, with 36 acres (15 ha), which she and Augustus renamed “Holmhurst St Mary“, at Baldslow in East Sussex. They moved out of Lime House.[19][20] Hare became the companion of his mother, an invalid. They travelled regularly in continental Europe.[1][21]

After the death of Maria in 1870, Hare wrote numerous books as a professional author. His Memorials of a Quiet Life, dealing with the evangelical milieu of his upbringing, was a succès d’estime that opened doors to a wide social acceptance.

Memorials of a Quiet Life (3 vols. 1872–1876)

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John Tulloch, in an 1881 article about Arthur Penrhyn Stanley, Maria Hare’s nephew, commented:

I read those Memorials last summer amidst some of the scenes depicted in them; and if any wish to see what a beautiful, and in some respects original, atmosphere surrounded Stanley in his youthful years, they deserve attention; they are occasionally tedious, and too “long drawn out,” and more may be made of the picture than the subjects warrants; but a most tranquil Christian spirit pervades every page[…][22]

The work had run to an 18th edition by 1884.[23]

The Story of My Life

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His autobiography, in six volumes. It included a number of accounts of encounters with ghosts. A reviewer in the New York Times concluded that “Mr Hare’s ghosts are rather more interesting than his lords or his middle-class people”.[24]

Hare was also a travel writer, topographer and illustrator.[25] He compiled numerous guidebooks, including two for John Murray. A number of these books were later revised by Welbore St Clair Baddeley (1856–1945).

Bede‘s Tomb, Durham Cathedral, watercolour by Augustus Hare

The travel books were typically illustrated with woodcuts after Hare’s sketches. Gavin Henderson wrote:

He is not remembered as a draughtsman, but these vignettes from his sketches form a most remarkable appendix to the great body of Victorian woodcuts.[26]

That said, Hare’s watercolours, “usually in a free and wet manner”, were “often very competent”. His first guidebook was written after a journey 1857–8 to Italy.[27]

Hare died unmarried in 1903 and was buried at All Saints’ Church, Herstmonceux.[1] He left most of his estate to the family of Edward Penrhyn MP (died 1861, né Leycester), brother of Maria Hare, with use of his home Holmhurst St Mary for life to his daughter Emma Leycester Penrhyn (a cousin only in the adoptive sense).[28][29]

Hare’s library and some pencil and watercolour sketches were sold at Hodgson’s auctioneers in 1908.[30]

Travel guides:

  • A Handbook for Travellers in Berks, Bucks and Oxfordshire, (John Murray, 1860)
  • A Winter at Mentone, (Wertheim, Macintosh & Hunt, 1862)
  • A Handbook for Travellers in Northumberland and Durham, (John Murray, 1863)
  • Walks in Rome, (Daldy, Isbister & Co., 1871) 2 vols.
  • Wanderings in Spain, (Strahan & Co., 1873)
  • Days Near Rome, (Daldy, Isbister & Co., 1875) 2 vols.
  • Cities of Northern Italy, (Daldy, Isbister & Co., 1876) 2 vols.
  • Walks in London, (Daldy, Isbister & Co., 1878)
  • Cities of Southern Italy and Sicily, (Smith, Elder & Co., 1883)
  • Cities of Central Italy, (Smith, Elder & Co., 1884) 2 vols.
  • Florence, (Smith, Elder & Co., 1884)
  • Venice, (Smith, Elder & Co., 1884)
  • Sketches in Holland and Scandinavia, (George Allen, 1885)
  • Studies in Russia, (Smith, Elder & Co., 1885)
  • Paris, (Smith, Elder & Co., 1887) 2 vols.
  • Days Near Paris, (Smith, Elder & Co., 1887)
  • South-Eastern France, (George Allen & Unwin, 1890)
  • South-Western France, (George Allen & Unwin, 1890)
  • North-Eastern France, (George Allen & Unwin, 1890)
  • Sussex, (1894)
  • North-Western France (Normandy and Brittany), (George Allen, 1895)
  • The Rivieras, (George Allen, 1897)
  • Shropshire, (George Allen, 1898)
  • Sicily, (William Heinemann, 1905) posthumous single volume edition, revised by St Clair Baddeley
  • Cities of Southern Italy, (William Heinemann, 1911) posthumous single volume edition, revised by St Clair Baddeley

Autobiography:

  • The Story of My Life, (George Allen, 1896–1900) 6 vols.

Biography:

Other:

  • Epitaphs for Country Churchyards. Collected and Arranged, (John Henry & James Parker, 1856)
  • Letters to Crown-Prince Gustav V (unpublished) – he had conducted the future King on a tour of Rome
  • Last Will and Testament (unpublished)
  1. ^ a b c d e Baigent, Elizabeth. “Hare, Augustus John Cuthbert (1834–1903)”. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/33710. (Subscription, Wikipedia Library access or UK public library membership required.)
  2. ^ “Hare, Augustus John Cuthbert”. Who’s Who. A & C Black. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  3. ^ “Hare, Augustus John Cuthbert”. Who’s Who. A & C Black. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  4. ^ Foster, Joseph (1888–1891). “Hare, Robert (2)” . Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715–1886. Oxford: James Parker – via Wikisource.
  5. ^ a b Stephen, Leslie; Lee, Sidney, eds. (1890). “Hare, Julius Charles” . Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 24. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
  6. ^ Distad, Norman Merrill (1979). Guessing at Truth: The Life of Julius Charles Hare (1795-1855). Patmos Press. p. 116. ISBN 978-0-915762-07-1.
  7. ^ Stephen, Leslie; Lee, Sidney, eds. (1890). “Hare, Augustus William” . Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 24. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
  8. ^ a b Barnes, Malcolm (1985). Augustus Hare: Victorian Gentleman. London: Allen & Unwin. p. 25. ISBN 004920100X.
  9. ^ a b c Barnes, Malcolm (1985). Augustus Hare: Victorian Gentleman. London: Allen & Unwin. pp. 10–11. ISBN 004920100X.
  10. ^ a b c “Sterling, John (STRN824J)”. A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
  11. ^ Barnes, Malcolm (1985). Augustus Hare: Victorian Gentleman. London: Allen & Unwin. p. 200 note 15. ISBN 004920100X.
  12. ^ Barnes, Malcolm (1985). Augustus Hare: Victorian Gentleman. London: Allen & Unwin. p. 37. ISBN 004920100X.
  13. ^ Harrison, J. F. C. (28 October 2013). A History of the Working Men’s College: 1854-1954. Routledge. p. 47. ISBN 978-1-134-53083-0.
  14. ^ Barnes, Malcolm (1985). Augustus Hare: Victorian Gentleman. London: Allen & Unwin. pp. 13 and 38. ISBN 004920100X.
  15. ^ Kilvert, Robert Francis (1940). Kilvert’s Diary: 14 May 1874-18 March 1879. Vol. 3. Jonathan Cape. p. 13.
  16. ^ Barnes, Malcolm (198). Augustus Hare: Victorian Gentleman. London: Allen & Unwin. p. 58. ISBN 004920100X.
  17. ^ Matthew, H. C. G. “Bradley, Charles (1789–1871)”. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/3184. (Subscription, Wikipedia Library access or UK public library membership required.)
  18. ^ Foster, Joseph (1888–1891). “Hare, Augustus John Cuthbert” . Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715–1886. Oxford: James Parker – via Wikisource.
  19. ^ Barnes, Malcolm (1985). Augustus Hare: Victorian Gentleman. London: Allen & Unwin. p. 96. ISBN 004920100X.
  20. ^ Historic England. “Holmhurst St Mary’s School (1043422)”. National Heritage List for England.
  21. ^ Bledsoe, Albert Taylor; Herrick, Sophia M’Ilvaine Bledsoe (1874). The Southern Review. Bledsoe and Browne. p. 90.
  22. ^ The Nineteenth Century: A Monthly Review. London: Kegan Paul, Trench & Co. 1881. p. 873.
  23. ^ Sanders, Lloyd Charles (1887). Celebrities of the Century: Being a Dictionary of Men and Women of the Nineteenth Century. Cassell. p. 539.
  24. ^ W.L. Alden (22 December 1900). “London Literary Letter”. The New York Times Saturday Review of Books and Art. Retrieved 22 October 2011.
  25. ^ Houfe, Simon (1978). The Dictionary of British Book Illustrators and caricaturists, 1800-1914: with introductory chapters on the rise and progress of the art. Woodbridge, England: Antique Collectors’ Club. p. 333. ISBN 0902028731.
  26. ^ Hare, Augustus John Cuthbert; Henderson, Gavin (1977). Augustus Hare in Italy. M. Russell. p. 15. ISBN 978-0-85955-046-8.
  27. ^ Mallalieu, Huon L. (1984). The Dictionary of British Watercolour Artists Up to 1920. Vol. 1. Woodbridge: Antique Collectors’ Club. p. 124. ISBN 0902028480.
  28. ^ “Penrhyn, Edward (1794-1861), of The Cedars, East Sheen, Surr., History of Parliament Online”. www.historyofparliamentonline.org.
  29. ^ “An Author’s Estate”. Tewkesbury Register. 25 April 1903. p. 2.
  30. ^ The Publisher: The Journal of the Publishing Industry. 1908. p. 675.
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