A Naval Biographical Dictionary/Hoare, Richard
HOARE. (Captain, 1827. f-p., 17; h-p., 25.)
Richard Hoare, born 1 Sept. 1793, is third son of the late Sir Henry Hugh Hoare, Bart., F.S.A., F.B.S., of Stourhead, co. Wilts, by Maria Palmer, daughter of Arthur Acland, Esq., of Fairfield, co. Somerset. He is brother of the present Sir Hugh Rich. Hoare, Bart.
This officer entered the Navy, 5 July, 1805, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Tribune frigate, Capt. Rich. Henry Alex. Bennett, with whom he served in the Channel and North Sea until compelled by sickness to be sent on shore in Jan. 1806. Re-embarking, 25 July, 1807, on board the Powerful 74, bearing the flag of the late Lord Gambier, he accompanied that officer in the ensuing expedition to Copenhagen; on his return whence, he was for four years employed with Capt. Edw. Fellowes in the Apollo 38, and Conqueror 74, chiefly on the Mediterranean station. Between Feb. 1812, and July, 1813, he served in the Channel on board the San Josef 110, and Queen Charlotte 100, flag-ships of Lord Keith, by whom he was then appointed Lieutenant of the Sparrow sloop, Capt. John Campbell. While employed, soon afterwards, in rowing guard in a 6-oared cutter off St. Jean de Luz, Mr. Hoare, in spite of all the resistance he could offer, was captured by four French gun-boats and taken to Bayonne. On his exchange and return to England, he was at once, by a commission dated 13 Nov. 1813, officially advanced to the rank of Lieutenant, and on 30 of the same month nominated to the Dragon 74, Capt. Robt. Barrie, under whom he enacted a prominent part in the after-scenes of the American war. His succeeding appointments were – 30 Aug. and 27 Oct. 1815, to the Madagascar and Phaeton frigates, commanded by Capt. Fras. Stanfell, at Sheerness and at the Cape of Good Hope – 7 June, 1818, as First-Lieutenant, to the Blossom 26, Capts. Fred. Hickey and Fred. Edw. Venables Vernon, in South America – and 9 Feb. 1821, in a similar capacity, to the Niemen 28, Capt. Edw. Reynolds Sibly, fitting for service at Halifax. He was promoted, on the latter station, to the command, 19 July, 1822, of the Doterel 18, which sloop he brought home and paid off in 1825. He acquired his present rank 7 July, 1827, but has not been since afloat.
Capt. Hoare married, first, 15 March, 1823, Mary Offley, youngest daughter of the late Admiral Sir Wm. Chas. Fahie, K.C.B., by whom (who died 27 Sept. 1826) he had issue; and secondly, in 1834, Elizabeth, eldest daughter of Wm. Praed, Esq., of Tyringham, Bucks, and of Trewithon, Cornwall.