Edward Hoare (cricketer)

Edward Hoare (5 June 1812 – 7 July 1894) was an English cricketer with possibly amateur status who was active in 1831.

[1] A member of the Hoare banking family, he was also the nephew of the prison reformer Elizabeth Fry, who was his mother's sister.

[3] He graduated from Cambridge University in 1834 as the fifth Wrangler and became a clergyman; he was a prominent member of the evangelical wing of the Church of England and wrote several books on religious themes.

[2] From 1853 he was vicar of Holy Trinity Church, Tunbridge Wells and an honorary canon of Canterbury Cathedral.

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