HARDY, ROBERT; b.; adm. (aged 8) May 1733; left 1736 (or 1737 ?). [Presumably brother or close kin to Thomas Hardy, adm. same month].
HARDY, THOMAS; b.; adm. (aged 10) May 1733; left 1737. [Presumably brother or close kin to Robert Hardy, adm. same month].
HARDY, THOMAS; b.; adm. (aged 11) Jun 1737; left 1739.
HARE, CHARLES; b.; adm. (aged 11) Jul 1733; left 1738. [Presumably brother or close kin to James Hare and Thomas Hare, adm. same month]. [perhaps Charles Hare, son of George Hare, and Grizzel ---, bapt. St. James, Clerkenwell 27 Jun 1723 (IGI)]
HARE, EVAN HERRING, eldest son of Evan Hare, Putney, Surrey, solicitor, and Charlotte, dau. of Thomas Chapman, Wandsworth, Surrey; b. 12 Aug 1851; adm. 26 Jan 1865 (G); left Dec 1865; St. John’s Coll. Oxford, matr. 16 Jan 1869; BA 1872; MA 1876; St. Thomas’s Hospital; MRCS 1876; FRCS 1887; LSA 1878; Surgeon, National Aid Society, in Servian War, and Civil Surgeon, Army Medical Department, Zulu War; in practice at Hornsey, Middlesex; translated Prof. Puschmann’s History of Medical Education, 1891; m. 23 Apr 1885 Emily Lucy, dau. of Richard Norris Cummins, Mortlake, Surrey; d. 25 Apr 1932.
HARE, JAMES; b.; adm. (aged 8) Jul 1733; left 1739. [Presumably brother or close kin to Charles Hare and Thomas Hare, adm. same month].
Hare, John Edward, son of Lieut.-Col. John Hare OBE RAMC FRCS, ENT specialist, and Kathleen Dora, d. of Edward Rowe of Cape Town; b. 30 Dec. 1919; adm. Sept. 1933 (A); left July 1938; Univ. of London; MN radio officer in WW2; d. 1942 of exposure after his ship was torpedoed.
John Edward Hare was born at Simonstown, South Africa on the 30th of December 1919 the eldest son of Lieutenant Colonel John Hare OBE FRCS, Royal Army Medical Corps, and Kathleen Dora (nee Rowe) Hare of 22, Elm Park Gardens, Chelsea in London, later of “Ormidale”, Clevedon in Somerset. He was educated at Westminster School where he was up Ashburnham from September 1933 to July 1938. He was a noted pianist while he was at school. He went on to the University of London.
In March 1941, the 3,767 ton cargo steamer SS Umona, under the command of Master Frederick Arthur Baden Peckham, set sail from Durban bound for London carrying a cargo of 1,549 tons of maize, 50 tons of pulses and 47 tons of jam. She was also carrying 14 passengers, of which 7 were sailors who had survived pervious sinkings. She called at Walvis Bay on the 20th of March before setting sail alone for Freetown in Sierra Leone where she was to join a convoy.
At 11.01pm on the 30th of March 1941, the SS Umona was sailing some 90 nautical miles to the southwest of Freetown when she was struck underneath the aft mast on the port side by a G7e “Gnat” torpedo which had been fired by the U Boat U-124, under the command of Kapitänleutnant Georg-Wilhelm Schultz. She was hit by a second torpedo two minutes later and sank six minutes after that. During that time John Hare, the radio officer on duty at the time, stayed at his post transmitting distress messages before jumping into the sea. Only one lifeboat of the six on board, had managed to launch before she sank. The lifeboat was commanded by Fourth Officer Edwin Clarke who was captured when U-124 surfaced and took him on board before submerging again. He was never seen again. John Hare managed to pull himself on board a small life raft which was also carrying a badly wounded naval gunner, E.G. Elliot RN and a passenger, Frank Brothers. After drifting for four days they spotted a U Boat on the surface which they managed to signal to by using the reflection of a tobacco tin. The submarine came alongside and gave them fresh water before sailing away. The next day the weather worsened and John Hare died from exposure during the afternoon. The two remaining men were picked up by the cargo ship SS Lorca on the 12th of April and were landed at Freetown. Three other survivors had been picked up by the destroyer HMS Foxhound (H69) on the 7th of April but the other 101 passengers and crew had perished when the ship had gone down.
His date of death is given as the date of the sinking of the ship but a number of other sources record that he died on board the life raft a few days later.
He was posthumously awarded the King’s Commendation for Brave Conduct, which was announced by St James’s Palace on the 28th of April 1942.
He is commemorated on the Tower Hill Memorial, Panel 113.
Hare, Richard Williams, brother of John Edward Hare (qv); b. 5 Aug. 1924; adm. Sept. 1938 (B); left July 1941; RNVR in WW2 (Lieut. ); UCL, Bartlett Sch. of Architecture, BA 1950; ARIBA 1950, FRIBA 1961; FRSA 1969; pres. Ecclesiastical Architects’ and Surveyors’ Assn. 1975; in practice at Salisbury and Southampton, Hants; m. 5 Dec. 1953 Barbara Ruth, d. of Robert Pitt Bennett, newspaper proprietor; d. 8 Aug. 1989.
Hare, Robert Wilham Powel, son of Maj. Richard Powel Hare OBE and Ruby Geraldine, d. of John William Warry of Clevedon, Bristol; b. 3 Mar. 1913; adm. Jan. 1927 (H); left July 1931; RASC 1940-5 (Maj.), despatches (N. Africa) Nov. 1943; factory manager J. Lyons & Co. 1947- 65, dir. Lyons Bakery 1965, Linden Bakery 1966, retd 1977; m. 18 Dec. 1940 Gwyneth Alice, d. of James Mitchell-Jones, dir. shipping co., of Liverpool; d. 31 Jan. 1993.
HARE, ST. JOHN, eldest son of John Hare, Abbotsley, Hunts.; b.; adm.; KS; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1648, Westminster Student (still in Dean’s Book 1650/1), but did not matr.; adm. Middle Temple 17 Jun 1647, called to bar 11 Feb 1658/9; m. 1st, ---; lic. to m. 2nd, 31 Oct 1681 Mary, dau. of Erasmus Gainsford, Crowhurst, Surrey.