John Baptist Cashel Hoey, CMG (Baptised 17 July 1827 – 7 January 1892) was an Irish writer, editor, and public servant for colonial New Zealand and Australia.
He was educated at St. Patrick's College, Armagh, and was one of the principal writers for the Nation, and editor 1849–57, taking over from Charles Gavan Duffy, and was one of the "Young Irelanders".
[2] Hoey married, on 9 February 1858, Frances Sarah Stewart (née Johnston).
She was the widow of Adam Murray Stewart, of Cromleich, Dublin, who survived him.
[4] His honours included Knight of the Orders of Malta, d'Este, Pius IX., Francis I., and El Caridad, and a Fellow of the Roman Academy of the Catholic Religion.