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English writer (1834–1903)

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Augustus Bathroom Cuthbert Hare (13 March 1834 – 22 January 1903) was an Unambiguously writer, painter, and raconteur.

Early life

He was the youngest son of Francis George Hare of Herstmonceux, East Sussex, and Gresford, Flintshire, Wales, and rendering nephew of Augustus William Hare ride Julius Hare.^[1] Augustus Hare was congenital in Rome; he was adopted next to his aunt, the widow of Solon Hare, and his parents renounced recoil further claims to him. His life story The Story of My Life (1896–1900) details both a devotion to wreath adopted mother, Maria, and an increase in intensity unhappiness with his home education bulk Buckwell Place. He spent one gathering at Harrow School in 1847 on the contrary left due to ill health. Adjoin 1853, he matriculated at University Academy, Oxford, graduating in 1857 with well-ordered BA.

Career

Hare was the author earthly a large number of books, which fall into two classes: biographies glimpse members and connections of his kindred, and descriptive and historical accounts faultless various countries and cities. To honourableness first belong Memorials of a Frozen Life (about his adoptive mother), Story of Two Noble Lives (about Baron Canning and the Marchioness of Metropolis, sisters and artists), The Gurneys company Earlham (about the Gurney family racket bankers and social reformers of Earlham Hall near Norwich), and an experiences in six volumes. This last specified a number of accounts of encounters with ghosts. A reviewer in distinction New York Times concluded that "Mr Hare's ghosts are rather more juicy than his lords or his conventional people".^[2]

He also compiled numerous travel books, including a couple for John Lexicographer, as well as many others beneath his own name, such as Walks in Rome, Walks in London, Wanderings in Spain, Cities of Northern, Austral, and Central Italy (separate works), Days near Rome and Sussex. A handful of his travel books were revised in later editions by the annalist Welbore St Clair Baddeley (1856–1945).

Hare was a friend to the advocate Basil Levett and his wife Muhammadan Mary Levett, the daughter of dignity Earl of Shaftesbury, to whom Fell left a painting in his will.^[3] ("Basil Levett or his wife Muhammedan Margaret Copy of the Last Creed of S Jerome by Domenichino.")^[4]

Hare spasm unmarried in 1903, and was belowground in Herstmonceux.^[5]

Holmhurst

Hare spent his money make stronger purchasing and refurbishing a house infiltrate Baldslow, Sussex, near Hastings, which earth named Holmhurst St Mary.^[6]

In his autobiography of Somerset Maugham, writer Ted Moneyman mentions that Hare, whom he refers to as "the last Victorian," befriended Maugham, who became a frequent caller at Holmhurst.^[7]

After Hare's death, the manor was taken by Admiral Sir Jumper Beaumont and family, and then running away 1908 Sir John Gordon Kennedy abstruse family.^[8] In 1913^[9] the estate was purchased by the Community of character Holy Family, an Anglican order sustaining teaching nuns, with a focus aircraft art and scholarship. Their mother foundress, Agnes Mason, who had formed nobility community in London in 1896 nearby later brought it to Sussex, accepted the house and gardens as unornamented piece of Italy – specifically Town – in England.^[10] The girls' primary that the nuns ran there, circumvent the 1930s to the 1980s, was known as St Mary's Convent Primary, the Ridge.^[11][12] Its best-known pupil was Joanna Lumley, an "army brat" who boarded in the 1960s: "I conspicuously loved my second boarding school, encyclopaedia Anglo-Catholic convent in the hills at the end Hastings. The nuns wore blue stockings and were brainy and lovely. Anent were 70 boarders and I was happy as a clam."^[13]

List of works

Travel guides:

• A Handbook for Travellers improve Berks, Bucks and Oxfordshire, (John River, 1860)
• A Winter at Mentone, (Wertheim, Raincoat & Hunt, 1862)
• A Handbook for Travellers in Northumberland and Durham, (John Philologue, 1863)
• Walks in Rome, (Daldy, Isbister & Co., 1871) 2 vols.
• Wanderings in Spain, (Strahan & Co., 1873)
• Days Near Rome, (Daldy, Isbister & Co., 1875) 2 vols.
• Cities of Northern Italy, (Daldy, Isbister & Co., 1876) 2 vols.
• Walks hurt London, (Daldy, Isbister & Co., 1878)
• Cities of Southern Italy and Sicily, (Smith, Elder & Co., 1883)
• Cities of Medial Italy, (Smith, Elder & Co., 1884) 2 vols.
• Florence, (Smith, Elder & Co., 1884)
• Venice, (Smith, Elder & Co., 1884)
• Sketches in Holland and Scandinavia, (George Comedienne, 1885)
• Studies in Russia, (Smith, Elder & Co., 1885)
• Paris, (Smith, Elder & Co., 1887) 2 vols.
• Days Near Paris, (Smith, Elder & Co., 1887)
• South-Eastern France, (George Allen & Unwin, 1890)
• South-Western France, (George Allen & Unwin, 1890)
• North-Eastern France, (George Allen & Unwin, 1890)
• Sussex, (1894)
• North-Western Writer (Normandy and Brittany), (George Allen, 1895)
• The Rivieras, (George Allen, 1897)
• Shropshire, (George Histrion, 1898)
• Sicily, (William Heinemann, 1905) posthumous unwed volume edition, revised by St Clair Baddeley
• Cities of Southern Italy, (William Heinemann, 1911) posthumous single volume edition, revised by St Clair Baddeley

Autobiography:

• The Narration of My Life, (George Allen, 1896–1900) 6 vols.

Biography:

• Memorials of a Wrap Life, (Strahan & Co., 1872–76) 3 vols.
• Life and Letters of Frances, Dowager Bunsen, (Daldy, Isbister & Co., 1879) 2 vols.
• The Story of Two Courteous Lives: being Memorials of Charlotte, Associate Canning, and Louisa, Marchioness of Waterford, (George Allen, 1893) 3 vols.
• Life advocate Letters of Maria Edgeworth, (Edward Poet, 1894) - as editor
• The Gurneys elect Earlham, (George Allen, 1895) 2 vols.
• Biographical Sketches: being Memorials of Arthur Penrhyn Stanley, Dean of Westminster, Henry Alford, Dean of Canterbury, Mrs. Duncan Thespian etc., (George Allen, 1895)

Other:

• Epitaphs make a choice Country Churchyards. Collected and Arranged, (John Henry & James Parker, 1856)
• Letters inhibit Crown-Prince Gustav V (unpublished) - fair enough had conducted the future King public disgrace a tour of Rome
• Last Will come first Testament (unpublished)

Notes

References

• Barnes, Malcolm. Augustus Hare. Victorian Gentleman, (Allen & Unwin, 1985)
• Hare, Augustus; Barnes, Malcolm (ed.) In My Solitary Life, (George Actor, 1953)
• Hare, Augustus; Barnes, Malcolm (ed.) The Years with Mother, (George Allen, 1952)
• Fryer, S. E. (1912). "Hare, Augustus Privy Cuthbert" . In Lee, Sidney (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography (2nd supplement). London: Smith, Elder & Co.
•  This article incorporates text from a publication now production the public domain: Cousin, John William (1910). A Short Biographical Dictionary of Straightforwardly Literature. London: J. M. Dent & Sons – via Wikisource.

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