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HARE. 561 HABEL. of his refusal to qualify for the valuable living of Hurstnioneeaux, furnieily lield by his father, mid in- the gift of the Jones faniil}-. He was a tutor at New College for several years, and be- eanie rector of Alton-Banies, a small rural oonununity, where he lived from 1829 until poor liealth drove him to Kouie. wliore he died, lie wrote iicnnoiis to a Vountrii Coiujrcjintion (1837), and, with his brother, (Jticsses at Truth (1827). Consult A. J. C. Hare, Memorials of a <)uiet Life (London, 1872). HARE, Geobgb Emle.v ( 180802 ) . An Ameri- can clergyman, born in Philadelphia. He gradu- ated at Union College in 1825, became a priest of the Protestant Episcopal Church, was rector of Saint .John's. Carlisle, Pa. (1830-34) : of Trinity Churcli, Princeton, N. .J. ( 1834-43) ; and of Saint ililtthcw's, Philadelphia (184.")-52). He had had charge of the Episcopal Academy during a part of his pastorate at Saint Jlatthew's, and was made instructor in the diocesan training school «nd. after its development into the Philadclpliia Divinity School, a professor of biblical learning, and then (1881) of Xew Testament literature in the latter institution. He wrote: Christ to Re- turn (1840) : and a volume of'sennons. Visions <iml Sarratives of the Old Testament (1889). HARE, John (1844—). A well-laiown Eng- lish actor and manager. He was born in London; was educated in Yorkshire ; and made his first stage appearance at the Prince of Wales Theatre, Liverpool. Soon afterwards (1805) he came to the London Theatre of the same name, where he was very popular in the comedies of T. W. Robertson, with some of which in later years he toured in America. In 1875 he became mana- ger of the Court Theatre, where he brought out Olivia, A .SVra/) of Paper, and other pieces. AYith Mr. Kendal at the Saint James Theatre (1879-88) he produced Still ^yaters Run Deep and The Ironmaster. In 1889 he assumed the management of the Garrick Theatre, and after- wards appeared with several of A. W. Pincro's plays, notably The Notorious Mrs. Etihsmilh and Lad;/ Bountiful. He took the Globe Theatre in 1897. producing A Baehelor's Romanee there, and in 1899 Pinero's The Gai/ Lord Quej-, which lie brought to America in the season of 1900-01. Consult: Pemberton. ./o7i)i Hare, Comedian (Lon- don, 1895) ; Scott. The Drama of Yesterday and To-daii (London, 1899). HARE, John Innes Clark (1817—). An American Jurist, born in Philadelphia. He was educated at the L^niversity of Pennsylvania, was admitted to the bar in 1841. was associate judge of the Philadelphia district court (1851-67). then its presiding judge (1S67-75), and from 1875 to iS95 was presiding judge of the Court of Common Pleas in the same city. In 1868 he received the degree of Doctor of Laws at the end of ten years' service as a trustee of the L'niversity of Pennsylvania, in which he served for many years as professor of the institutes of law. He wrote: Ameriran I^eadinq Cn.ses, Avith Horace B. Wallis (1847) : The Law of Con- traets (1887) ; and Amerie/in Constitutional Law (1889); and edited: Smith's Leading Cases in Law (1852); White and Tudor's Leading Cases in Equitji (1852): Hare on Contracts (1887); and The Neic English Excherfier Reports. 'HARE, Julius Ch.ki.es (1795-1855). Arch- deacon of Lewes, a well-known English writer. He W'us born at Vahlagno, .50 miles nortliwcst of Venice, Italy, Sejjtember 13, 1795. W'liile still a boy he passed a winter at Weimar (1804-05), where he met Goethe and Scliiller, and gained a knowledge of (iermaii literature which inlluenced his style and senlinients througliout his wliole career. On the death of his mother in 1800, he was sent to the Charterhouse in Lundcjn. where he remained until 1812, when he entered Trinity, Cambridge. There he became fellow in 1818, and after traveling abroad he began to read law in London in 1819. In 1822 he was appointed assist- ant tutor at Trinity College, which position he retained for ten years. Turning his attention from law to divinity, he was ordained in 182G. In 1827 appeared the (Juesses at Truth by Tao Brothers, written by Hare and his eldest brother. Augustus William "(q.v.). On the death of his uncle in 1832 he succeeded to the rich family living of Hurstmoneeaux. in Sussex, where he accumulated a library of 12,000 volumes, espe- cially rich in German literature. Before taking up his residence in his parish, he once more went abroad'. In 1840 Hare was apjjointed Arch- deacon of Lewes, and in the same year preached a course of sermons at Cambridge, The Victorif of Faith (3d ed. by Plumptre, 1874); followed ill 1846 by a second. The Mission of the Com- forter (3d ed. 1876). In 1853 he became a Queen's chaplain. He was eminently unfitted to be a country parson, but did much better as an arclideacon. His sermons and charges were unmercifully long because he considered not at all the patience and interest of his auditors. But withal he was a scholar and a conscientious work- er. He died at Hurstmoneeaux, January 23, 1855. For his biography, consult A. J. C. Hare, Memorials of a Quiet Life (London, 1872). HARE, Robert (1781-1858). An American chemist, born in Philadelphia. As a boy he was employed in his father's brewery, and had little spare time for study, but he managed to gain a considerable knowledge of chemistry and physics, and in 1801 invented the oxyhydrogen blowpipe. For this the American Academy of Boston awarded him the Rumford medal. He was professor of chemistry at the University of Pennsylvania from 1818 until 1847. and subse- quently was an honorary member of the Smith- sonian Institution. He made many ingenious and practical inventions of laboratory apparatus, and wrote a number of papers on scientific subjects. in addition to which he published: Brief View of the Poliey and Re.tovrces of the United States (1810) ; and Chemieal .Apparatus and Manipula- tions (1836). His collection of chemical and physical apparatus is preserved by the Smith- sonian Institution. HARE, William Horart (1838-). .

American clergyman, bishop of the Protestant Episcopal Church. He was , born at Princeton, N. J., and was educated at the l'niversity of Pennsvlvania. He preached in Philadelphia un- til 1870; was for three years the general agent of the foreign committee of the Board of Mis- sions, and was then elected Missionary Bishop of Niobrara. In 1883 his diocese was extended to include the' State of South Dakota. He wrote several pamphlets "on missionarv work in the Vest. HAREL, a'rel'. Pai'L (18.54—). A French poet and innkeeper, born at Echauffour. He sue-