Julius Charles Hare (1795–1855): Writer and Church of England clergyman. He was born in Valdagno, Italy, the son of the historian, novelist and playwright, Francis Hare-Naylor (1753–1815; DNB) and his wife Georgiana (c. 1755–1806). His maternal aunt, Anna Maria (1748–1829; DNB), was the widow of the orientalist Sir William Jones (1746–1794; DNB). The family returned to England in 1799. What became a lifelong interest in German literature and scholarship began with Hare’s visit to Weimar in 1804. He matriculated at Trinity College, Cambridge, in 1812, graduated B.A. in 1816 and was elected to a Fellowship in 1818. A bibliophile, he amassed a library of some 12,000 volumes that was particularly rich in modern German writers. He obtained a Lectureship at Trinity in 1822 and his pupils included Frederick Denison Maurice (1805–1872; DNB) and John Sterling (1806–1844; DNB). He was ordained in 1826, took up a family living at Herstmonceux, Sussex, in 1832, and became Archdeacon of Lewes in 1840. His clerical career was shaped by his dislike of partisanship and his vision of an Anglican Church that could encompass a broad spectrum of belief. In 1844 he married Jane Esther Maurice (1814–1864), sister of his former pupil and close friend. Hare’s literary career began with the publication of Sintram and His Companions (1820), a translation of the gothic tale by Frederic de la Motte, Baron Fouqué (1777–1743). Hare contributed criticism and translations to a number of periodicals, including Ollier’s Literary Miscellany and The Athenaeum, and did much to promote availability and knowledge of German higher criticism in Britain. He also acted as an editor and agent for Walter Savage Landor, overseeing the publication of the latter’s Imaginary Conversations (1824–1829). This brought him into contact with Southey, who helped to censor the more libellous comments in Landor’s book in order to ensure its publication. Southey was also on good terms with Hare’s older brother, the Church of England clergyman Augustus Hare (1792–1834; DNB).