Brian Richard Hoare

HOARE, Brian Richard. b. Upminster, Essex, 9 December 1935. Hoare was educated at Southwell Minster Grammar School, at Westminster College, London, and at Richmond College, University of London. After teaching Religious Education at Calverton, Nottinghamshire, he became Secretary of the Colleges of Education Christian Union (Inter-Varsity Fellowship) in London (1962-68). He was ordained as a Methodist minister in 1971, and was chaplain at Hunmanby Hall School, Filey, Yorkshire. He then served in the Hull Mission Circuit (1974-77), at Cliff College, Derbyshire (as New Testament Tutor, 1977-86), and at Longton Central Hall, Stoke-on-Trent (1986-88). After this, he worked for the Methodist...