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William Pare (11 August 1805 – 18 June 1873) was a British co-operator and Owenite.

Biography
Pare was born 11 August 1805 in Birmingham, England, to cabinetmaker and upholsterer John Pare. He was his father's apprentice before opening a tobacco store on New Street, Birmingham. Pare was a convert to Owenism and co-operation after reading William Thompson's An Inquiry into Principles of the Distribution of Wealth Most Conducive to Human Happiness. In 1828 he was a founding member of the first Birmingham Co-operative Society. From 1829-1820 he edited the Birmingham Co-operative Herald.

From 1842 to 1844 Pare served as governor of the Owenite Harmony Hall community in Queenwood, Hampshire. In 1844 he move to London and began working as a railway statistician. In 1846 he moved to Dublin where he managed an ironworks.

Upon Robert Owen's death Pare acted as his literary executor.

He was a contributor to Henry Pitman's Co-operator.

In 1866 he moved back to London.

In 1855 he became a fellow of the Statistical Society.

Pare died 18 June 1873 in Croydon, Surrey, following a long illness. He was buried in Shirley Churchyard.