He was born the eldest son of John Hare of Homersfield, Suffolk, educated at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge and admitted to the Inner Temple in 1515.
In 1554 he presided at the trial of Sir Nicholas Throckmorton, who had been accused of involvement in Wyatt's rebellion against the marriage of Queen Mary to Felipe of Spain.
Hare married Katherine, daughter and coheiress of Sir John Bassingbourne of Woodhall near Hatfield, Hertfordshire,[1] by his wife Audrey Cotton.
He was an influential friend to Thomas Gawdy (d.1556), his brother-in-law, who married Anne Bassingbourne, the sister and fellow co-heiress of Katherine.
[3][2] History of Parliament writes that after Wolsey’s fall he seems to have come under the patronage of the 3rd Duke of Norfolk,[4] his wife's first cousin once removed.