Arthur Hoare (cricketer, born 1871)

{{Short description|English cricketer and clergyman (1871–1941)}}

{{Infobox cricketer

| name = Arthur Hoare

| image =

| fullname = Arthur Robertson Hoare

| birth_date = 17 October 1871

| birth_place = Stibbard, Norfolk, England

| death_date = {{Death date and age|df=y|1941|3|18|1871|10|17}}

| death_place = Ashill, Norfolk, England

| heightft =

| heightinch =

| nickname =

| family = William Hoare (uncle)
Walter Marsham (brother-in-law)
John Marsham (father-in-law)

| batting = Right-handed

| bowling = Right-arm medium

| role =

| club1 = Norfolk

| year1 = 1895–1907

| club2 = Marylebone Cricket Club

| year2 = 1903

| columns = 1

| column1 = First-class

| matches1 = 1

| runs1 = 45

| bat avg1 = 22.50

| 100s/50s1 = 0/0

| top score1 = 41

| deliveries1 = 54

| wickets1 = 0

| bowl avg1 = –

| fivefor1 = 0

| tenfor1 = 0

| best bowling1 = –

| catches/stumpings1 = 2/–

| date = 14 July

| year = 2019

| source = http://www.espncricinfo.com/england/content/player/14854.html Cricinfo

}}

Arthur Robertson Hoare (17 October 1871 – 18 March 1941) was an English first-class cricketer and clergyman.

Life

The son of the Reverend Walter Marsham Hoare, he was born in October 1871 at Stibbard, Norfolk.{{cite web|url=http://www.thepeerage.com/p4264.htm |title=Reverend Arthur Robertson Hoare |publisher=www.thepeerage.com |accessdate=2019-07-14}}{{cite book|last=Fox-Davies|first=Arthur Charles|title=Armorial Families|edition=7th|year=1929|publisher=Hurst & Blackett|location=London|pages=949–950|volume=1}} He was educated at Eton College,{{cite book |title=The Eton Register |date=1908 |publisher=Spottiswood |pages=[https://archive.org/details/etonregister04collgoog/page/n174 134] |url=https://archive.org/details/etonregister04collgoog |language=en}} before going up to Trinity College, Cambridge.{{cite book |title=The Clergy List |date=1906 |publisher=Kelly's Directories |pages=485 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=oas9AAAAYAAJ |language=en}} While at Cambridge, he played football for Cambridge University A.F.C., gaining a football blue.{{cite book |title=Alumni Cantabrigienses |first=John |last=Venn |date=2011 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |pages=387 |isbn=978-1108036146 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=OuU54j4aT6QC |language=en}} After graduating from Cambridge, he became an Anglican clergyman. He was a curate at Kettering from 1894 to 1897. He went to South Africa in 1897, where he was a diocese chaplain at Cape Town until 1900. He served in the Second Boer War as a chaplain to the forces.{{London Gazette|issue=27465|date=15 August 1902|page=5334}}

Hoare continued his role as chaplain to the forces until 1909, holding postings at the Royal Military Academy and at Colchester Garrison. He returned to service as a chaplain to the forces in World War I,{{London Gazette|issue=29489|date=25 February 1916|page=2102}} during which he was mentioned in dispatches.

Following the war, he served as the rector of Colkirk until 1930, and the rector of Ashill from 1930 to 1941. He died at Ashill in March 1941.

Cricketer

Hoare made his debut in minor counties cricket for Norfolk in 1895.{{cite web|url=http://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/30/30279/Minor_Counties_Championship_Matches.html |title=Minor Counties Championship Matches played by Arthur Hoare |publisher=CricketArchive |accessdate=2019-07-14 |url-access=subscription}} Upon his return to England, he played a single first-class cricket match for the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) against Oxford University at Oxford in 1903.{{cite web|url=http://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Players/30/30279/First-Class_Matches.html |title=First-Class Matches played by Arthur Hoare |publisher=CricketArchive |accessdate=2019-07-14 |url-access=subscription}} Batting twice in the match, he was dismissed for 4 runs in the MCC first-innings by William Evans, while in their second-innings he was dismissed for 41 runs by Robert Darling. He also bowled nine wicketless overs across the match.{{cite web|url=http://cricketarchive.com/Archive/Scorecards/6/6199.html |title=Oxford University v Marylebone Cricket Club, 1903 |publisher=CricketArchive |accessdate=2019-07-14 |url-access=subscription}} He resumed playing minor counties cricket for Norfolk until 1907, making a further seventeen appearances in the Minor Counties Championship.

Family

Hoare was married twice, firstly to Mabel Pensie Marsham, daughter of John Marsham in August 1902, the couple having three children. He was widowed in 1928, later marrying his late wife's sister Evelyn Florence Marsham in October 1930.