Joseph Charles Hoare (15 November 1851 – 18 September 1906) was the Anglican Bishop of Victoria, Hong Kong from 1898 to 1906.
Life and ministry Hoare was born in Ramsgate on 15 November 1851. His father was the Revd Edward Hoare, an honorary canon of Canterbury Cathedral.Who was Who 1897–1990, London, A & C Black 1991 He was educated at Tonbridge School and Trinity College, Cambridge."University Intelligence", The Times, 7 June 1878, p. 10.
Hoare was ordained in 1875 and was a curate at Holy Trinity Church in Tunbridge Wells. After this he was principal of the Church Missionary Society (CMS) training college in Ningbo from 1878 to 1898.CMS archives
Hoare married his first cousin, Alice Julian Patteson on 14 December 1882 at Thorpe-next-Norwich.Norfolk Record Office; Norwich, Norfolk, England; Reference: PD 228/162 Alice died in 1883.
Hoare later married Ellen Gough, daughter of Frederick Foster Gough; they had six children.
Hoare's last post was as Bishop of Victoria, Hong KongEcclesiastical Intelligence The Times 11 June 1898; pg. 13; Issue 35540; col A and the Warden of St. Paul's College, Hong Kong, to which he was appointed in 1898. He was consecrated a bishop on the Feast of St Barnabas 1898 (11 June), at St Paul's Cathedral by Frederick Temple, Archbishop of Canterbury.
Trinity College, Cambridge, honoured him with the Doctor of Divinity (DD) degree on 18 January 1900.
On 18 September 1906, Hoare and four St Paul's College students were drowned amidst a typhoon during a preaching journey in Castle Peak, Tuen Mun.
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