With his school-friends he established one of the first Oxford debating clubs, The Attic Society, which supplied his chief interest at college.

Lady Jones wished him to qualify himself for the rich family living of Hurstmonceaux, Sussex, by taking orders, but he offended her by refusing.

In June 1824 he published a defence of the Gospel narrative of the Resurrection, entitled A Layman's Letters to the Authors of the "Trial of the Witnesses".

[4] On 2 June 1829, having been recently appointed to the small college living of Alton Barnes in Wiltshire, Hare married Maria Leycester, daughter of the rector of Stoke-on-Terne, Shropshire.

His widow, who survived till 13 November 1870, went to live in the parish of her brother-in-law Julius, and is buried in Hurstmonceaux churchyard.