Augustus John Cuthbert Hare (1834–1903)

English writer and traveller, born at Rome in 1834. He was educated at Harrow school and at University College, Oxford. His name is familiar as the author of a large number of guidebooks to the principal countries and towns of Europe, most of which were written to order for John Murray. They were made up partly of the author’s own notes of travel, partly of quotations from others’ books taken with a frankness of appropriation that disarmed criticism. He also wrote Memorials of a Quiet Life—that of his aunt by whom he had been adopted when a baby (1872), and a tediously long autobiography in six volumes, The Story of My Life. He died at St. Leonards-on-Sea on the 22nd of January 1903. See also Cities of Northern and Central Italy and Days Near Rome.