Edward N. Hoare

Edward Newenham Hoare (11 April 1802 – 1 February 1877), a graduate of Trinity College, Dublin was an Irish Anglican priest: he was Archdeacon of Ardfert from 1836 to 1839, then Dean of Achonry from 1839 to 1850; and Dean of Waterford from then until his death.

Life

He was the son of the Rev. John Hoare of Drishane and Rathkeale, and his wife Rachel Newenham, daughter of Edward Newenham, born in Limerick. As a recent graduate (1824) of Trinity College, Dublin, he was a curate in 1825 at Parwich and Alsop en le Dale in Derbyshire. In 1827 he was in Edgeworthstown, County Longford.

Around 1830, Hoare was curate at St. John's, Limerick. He raised funds in England and Scotland, in 1834, to erect a church for the parish of St. Lawrence, allowing for the wishes of Edmund Pery, 1st Earl of Limerick, which meant that the church would be a chapel, attached to a charity, in this case an Asylum for Blind Females. The chapel was built that year, to a design by Joseph Fogarty.

Hoare was made Rector of St Lawrence, Limerick in 1835, and Archdeacon of Ardfert in 1836. He became a chaplain in 1839 to Hugh Fortescue, 2nd Earl Fortescue, the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland.

The House of Lords committee on Richard Whately's Irish national education system heard evidence from Hoare. In 1865 he joined the Church Association. He was a vice-president of the National Education League for Ireland.

Hoare died in Upper Norwood, Surrey on 1 February 1877.

The Christian Herald

Hoare was noted as an evangelical preacher, and edited The Christian Herald, a prophetical journal that appeared from 1830 to 1835, and was published in Dublin. Its editorial line was historicist and premillennialist. It reported in detail on the first two prophetic conferences at Powerscourt House, and ran some articles by John Nelson Darby. A sequel publication, under the same title, was later started by Michael Paget Baxter.