Author: Hoare, T.
Biography:
HOARE, T. (fl. 1834)
“T. Hoare” dedicated his only known publication to the Earl of Donoughmore and dated it from Waterford, Ireland, on 1 Jan. 1834. In the preface he described himself as a proud native of the land of “Feeling, of Sentiment, and of Song” and begs the indulgence of his readers for this first poetic effort. It is possible but unlikely that he was the well documented Thomas Hoare (1779-1835), the youngest son of Sir Edward Hoare, 2nd Baronet of Annabella (1745-1814) and his wife Clotilda Wallis (1750-1816), born on 20 Apr. at Ballycrone, Co. Cork, educated at Trinity College Dublin (BA 1799), and a member of the Anglo-Irish clergy, who married Mary Anne Lloyd in 1806 and had at least seven children with her. The Rev. Thomas Hoare would surely have used his title; in any case, he was generally associated with Co. Cork, not Waterford, and was to die a year later at Castletownroche, Cork, aged 56. But if he is not the son of the baronet, no information is available about him. (ancestry.com 25 Aug. 2022; O’Donoghue; Alumni Dublinenses [1935], 402) HJ