Henry Hoare

Henry William Hoare (1 April 1844 – 7 September 1931) played first-class cricket for Oxford University and other amateur teams in the 1860s. He was born at Three Bridges, Sussex, England and died at Pimlico, London.

Hoare's older brother, Hamilton Hoare, played first-class cricket for Sussex. Like his brother, who did it in 1882, Henry Hoare changed his surname to "Hamilton-Hoare" in 1908 in order to benefit from a Hamilton inheritance from the family of his mother.

Hoare was educated at Eton College and Balliol College, Oxford. Besides cricket he was also an athlete, winning hurdles races in the Balliol sports, and later he was a fencer, golfer and angler. In 1870 he joined the then Education Department of the British government, becoming chief clerk in 1893 and assistant secretary of the Board of Education 1900–04.

Publications

• The Evolution of the English Bible: An Historical Sketch of the Successive Versions from 1382 to 1885, John Murray, London, 1901
• The disestablishment question at the present time, SPCK, London, 1906