Mr. James O'Bryen Dott Richard Hoare, M.A. (Cambridge), Teacher of Our Father's Church, is a son of Mr. Joseph J. P. Hoare, of Brownlow, Hampshire, England. He was born in 1835, received his course of primary instruction at private schools, and in 1856 went to Cambridge. There, three years later, he graduated B.A., and was shortly after ordained. In 1864 he took the M.A. degree, and in the following year sailed for New Zealand, where, in 1865, he was appointed incumbent of St. John's Anglican Church, Christchurch. On returning to England in 1871, The received the incumbency of St. Jude's, Englefield Green, Surrey, and in 1878, was appointed vicar of Weston, Hampshire. In 1882 he again sailed for New Zealand, and after serving the parish of St. Paul's, Papanui, Christchurch, for ten years, he left the Church of England, to found a Free Church, under the title of Our Father's Church. Mr. Hoare was married, in 1864, to Miss F. E. Henderson, daughter of the Rev. W. Henderson, vicar of Messing, Essex, England.