Joseph Hoare FRS (1709 – 26 May 1802)[1] was a Welsh clergyman and Principal of Jesus College, Oxford, from 1768 to 1802.
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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.[2] He was a Prebendary of Westminster Abbey.[3] He was appointed Principal in 1768.[4] During his time as Principal, he donated £200 towards restoration of the college's Old Quadrangle.[5] In 1798, he also subscribed £100 for the "prosecution of the [French Revolutionary] war" and £21 for muskets and necessaries for the University corps.[6] He held the post of Principal for the third-longest time in the college's history.[7] He died in 1802 after having been scratched by his cat.[7] He bequeathed hundreds of volumes of books to the college library.[4]
He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in May 1753.[8]
References
edit- ^ James Peller Malcolm (1802). Londinium Redivivum Or an Antient History and Modern Description of London: Compiled from Parochial Records, Archives of Various Foundations, the Harleian Mss. and Other Authentic Sources. Nichols and Son. p. 438. ISBN 9780371008478.
- ^ Sanders, Robert. "Oxford University Alumni with Cardiff & Vale of Glamorgan Connections (based on Foster's Alumni Oxoniensis)". Cardiff & Glamorgan Family History Research (UK Site). Retrieved 17 August 2007.
- ^ Baker, J.N.L. (1971). Jesus College 1571-1971. Oxford: Oxonian Press Ltd. ISBN 0-9502164-0-2.
- ^ a b Baker, J.N.L. (1954). The Victoria History of the County of Oxford Volume III – The University of Oxford. The University of London Institute of Historical Research. p. 278.
- ^ Baker, Victoria County History, p.275
- ^ Baker, Victoria County History, p. 267
- ^ a b North, Sir Peter (2004). "And Finally...". The Jesus College Record: 13.
- ^ "Library and Archive Catalogue". Royal Society. Retrieved 20 November 2010.[permanent dead link]