Hoare, Cecil Arthur

Notes, papers and illustrations on amoebiasis and miscellaneous parasites.

Reprints, papers, notes, illustrations and correspondence on leishmaniasis and trypanosomiasis.

Papers and reprints on camel trypanosomiasis.

Material related to Hoare's 85th birthday Festschrift, 1977.

Photographs and correspondence.

Cecil Arthur Hoare was born in Middelburg, Holland, in 1892 to a British father and a Russian mother. The family moved to Russia when Hoare was a child, and he went on to study zoology at the Imperial University of St Petersberg. After graduation he joined the Department of Zoology, where he worked until he was imprisoned during the revolution. He emigrated to Britain in 1920.

In 1923 Hoare joined the Wellcome Bureau of Scientific Research. He remained within the Wellcome organisation for the rest of his professional life, later becoming head of the Protozoological Department of the Wellcome Laboratories of Tropical Medicine. On his retirement in 1957 Hoare received a Research Fellowship from the Wellcome Trust to continue working on his papers in the offices of the Wellcome Museum of Medical Science.

His work as a protozoologist was mainly concerned with mammalian trypanosomes, and included a two year secondment to the Uganda Medical Medical Service Human Trypanosomiasis Research Institute at Entebbe. In his later years he was involved in a study of the trypanosomal disease surra. He was particularly interested in the spread of the disease via caravan routes across the Sahara.

Cyril Hoare was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1950. He was also awarded the Gaspar Vianna Medal in 1962, and the Patrick Manson Medal in 1974.