Hare, Francis George (1786–1842)

Francis George Hare (1786–1842): Brother of Julius Hare and Augustus William Hare (1792–1834; DNB), clergyman, tutor at New College, Oxford, and historian. The brothers were the sons of Francis Hare-Naylor (1753–1815; DNB), historian, novelist and playwright. Francis George Hare lived mostly on the Continent and was a close friend of Walter Savage Landor. He visited Southey at Keswick in 1827; Southey commented ‘Never did I see a man possessed of such exuberant spirits’.