Angelina Margaret Hoare

Angelina Margaret Hoare
Born(1843-05-17)17 May 1843
Spring Gardens, London, England
Died10 January 1892(1892-01-10) (aged 48)
Occupation(s)Missionary, educator
Parent(s)Henry Hoare and Lady Mary Marsham

Angelina Margaret Hoare (17 May 1843 – 10 January 1892) was a missionary from Kent, England, who devoted her life to the advancement of women's education in British India.[1]

Background

She was the daughter of the banker Henry Hoare (1807-1866) and his wife Lady Mary Marsham, daughter of Charles Marsham, 2nd Earl of Romney, born in Spring Gardens, London. She was a sixth child in a family of 12. Her brother Walter Hoare was a cleric, and served as curate to Robert Milman, who became Bishop of Calcutta. Maria Milman, sister of Robert, invited the Hoare daughters to India, in 1874.[1]

Works

Hoare founded the St. John's Diocesan Girls' Higher Secondary School, Calcutta, West Bengal, India.[2] She started many other educational institutions in India. She used to work by taking suggestions and interacting with various native clergymen and pandits to draw out an educational plan. She avoided anglicising the girls or introducing foreign dress or habits. She wrote in one of the letters to her brother in England : "...my idea of the future of our Diocesan School is that it should be an institution not confined to any particular society or an elite group..."[3]

Death

She died aged 48 in 1892.[4] On her death, Ralph Johnson, the Bishop of Calcutta, praised her, stating:

...be assured, all of you that her devoted life has not been lost, for the public of Calcutta. The work she has done can never be altogether lost sight of. Not to mention the seed she has sown in the hearts of her beloved children in the Diocesan School of Calcutta and other schools in the Sundarbans, which will bear fruit in the generations to come...[3]

References

  1. ^ a b Bonham, Valerie. "Hoare, Angelina Margaret". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/6307. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  2. ^ "Untitled Document". cnicalcutta.org. Retrieved 2017-12-21.
  3. ^ a b Get Bengal website (article on St John’s School)
  4. ^ Life of Angelina Margaret Hoare. Gardner, Darton & Company. 1897.
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