He was born at
Three Bridges,
Sussex, England and died at
Pimlico, London. He was the son of the cleric
William Henry Hoare, of Oakfield,
Crawley, Sussex, and his wife Araminta Anne Hamilton (died 1888), daughter of
Sir John Hamilton, 1st Baronet, of Woodbrook. Hoare was educated at
Eton College. He matriculated at
Balliol College, Oxford in 1862, graduating B.A. in 1866. He was then a classical lecturer at Worcester College, and entered the
Inner Temple in 1876. 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==