Biographical Sketches - 1883 Author:Charles Kegan Paul Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: MARIA HARE. 1798-1870. A/TARIA LEYCESTER, afterwards Mrs. Augustus Hare, was the daughter of a Cheshire clergyman, some time rector of Stoke- upon-Terne, in ... more »Shropshire. Her elder sister was the wife of Edward Stanley, who became Bishop of Norwich. Much of her early days was spent with the Stanleys and various county magnates; but she owed the development of her intellectual and spiritual nature to intimacy with Reginald Heber, afterwards Bishop of Calcutta, at that time rector of Hodnet, near Stoke. Maria Leycester became attached to his curate, Mr. Stow, though the strong opposition of her family made a definite engagement impossible. Mr. Stow went to India with Bishop Heber as his chaplain, while the matter was still in this unsatisfactory state, and died of fever, shortly after his new career had begun. His most intimate friend,friend, whom Miss Leycester had already known well, was Augustus Hare, and the close sympathy into which they were brought by a common grief grew after a time into a warmer feeling. Mr. Hare accepted a small college living in Wiltshire, and, not without much strenuous opposition on the part of the Leycesters, they were married, Maria Hare being thirty-one, and Augustus eight years older. Four happy years of married life were followed by a complete break-down of his health. Marcus Hare, a younger brother of Augustus, had recently married a Miss Stanley, making thus a double connection with the Stanley family. The two brothers, with their wives, went to Rome together, and there Augustus Hare died in February, 1834. His widow took up her residence at Hurstmonceaux, in Sussex, first with Archdeacon Hare, and then in a house of her own. After a residence of many years, she removed to Holmhurst, fourteen miles from Hurstmonceaux, and there dying in 1870...« less