HOOK, Anna Delicia (dau. of John Johnson, physician, Birmingham). b. 1812; author of Some Meditations for every day in the year 1864; The Cross of Christ 1855 which was edited by her husband; (m. June 1829 Rev. Walter Farquhar Hook 1798–1875). d. 5 May 1871 aged 59 bur. churchyard of Mid Lavant near Chichester 11 May.
HOOK, Very Rev. Walter Farquhar (eld. child of Very Rev. James Hook 1771–1828, dean of Worcester). b. Conduit st. London 13 March 1798; ed. at Hertford, Tiverton, Winchester, and Ch. Ch. Ox., B.A. 1821, M.A. 1824, B.D. and D.D. 1837, student of Ch. Ch. 1817; C. of Whippingham, Isle of Wight 1821–25; P.C. of Moseley near Birmingham 1826–31; chaplain in ord. to the sovereign 1827 to death; V. of Holy Trin. Coventry 1828 to 1837; preb. of Linc. cath. 1832 to 1859; select preacher univ. of Ox. 1833–34 and 1858–59; V. of Leeds 1837 to 1859; preached his famous sermon Hear the Church before the Queen 17 June 1838, 31 ed. 1841, circulated 100,000 copies; dean of Chichester 24 Feb. 1859 to death, installed 19 March 1859; F.R.S. 5 June 1862; author of A Church Dictionary 1842, 14 ed. 1887; An ecclesiastical biography 8 vols. 1845–52; Lives of the archbishops of Canterbury 12 vols. 1860–76 and about 70 other books. d. the deanery, Chichester 20 Oct. 1875, memorial church at Leeds consecrated 29 Jany. 1880. Life and letters of W. F. Hook By W. R. W. Stephens 2 vols. 1878; Illust. news of the world, iii, (1859), portrait; Dent’s Birmingham (1880) 427, portrait; Graphic xii, 447, 448 (1875), portrait.
HOOKER, Sir William Jackson (son of Joseph Hooker of Exeter). b. Norwich 6 July 1785; ed. at Norwich gram. sch.; travelled for scientific purposes 1806–14; F.L.S. 1806; F.R.S. 9 Jany. 1812; lived at Halesworth, Suffolk 1815–20; regius prof. of botany Glasgow 1820–41; K.H. 1836; knighted at St. James’ palace 20 April 1836; director of royal gardens, Kew 1841 to death, chief agent in building the palm house and the temperate house, and a founder of the museum of economic botany; LLD. of Glasgow; D.C.L. of Ox. 1845; author of Exotic flora, 3 vols. 1823–7; Icones plantarum 10 vols. 1827–54; The Botanical Mag. 38 vols. 1827–65; British flora 2 vols. 1830–1, many editions; Species filicum 5 vols. 1846–64 and 35 other books and many papers. d. Kew 12 Aug. 1865. Proc. of R. Soc. xv, 25–30 (1867); Proc. Med. and Chir. Soc. v, 150, 162 (1867); Jerdan’s National Portrait gallery (1834) v, portrait; Taylor’s National Portrait gallery ii, 95, portrait.
HOOLE, Elijah (son of Holland Hoole, shoe maker). b. Manchester 3 Feb. 1798; ed. at Manchester gr. sch. 1809–13; Wesleyan methodist missionary in Madras 1820–8 during which time he published a number of translations in Tamil; a superintendent of schools in Ireland 1829–34; assistant sec. in London of Wesleyan Missionary Soc. 1834, one of the general secretaries 1836 to death; author of Personal narrative of a mission to the south of India from 1820–8, 1829, 2 ed. 1844; The year-book of missions 1847. d. 30 Russell sq. London 17 June 1872. T. F. Smith’s Manchester School Reg. iii, pt. 1, pp. 45, 290.
HOOPER, Edward. b. 1795; officer in navy; first appeared at Drury Lane as Colonel Briton, Sep. 1826; acting manager at Olympic 1832; lessee of St. James’s 1839; manager of Strand 1848; proprietor of Cambridge theatre to death. (m. Miss Brothers, she was b. 1800, first appeared at Drury Lane as Mrs. Haller 19 Feb. 1827 and was a well-known actress at St. James’s theatre). d. Cambridge 27 Jany. 1865 aged 70.
HOOPER, Edward. b. London 24 May 1829; ed. in London; member of firm of Bobbett and Hooper, wood engravers 1850 to death; an originator of the American water colour soc.; exhibited water colours at the Academy of design; engraved illustrations for Festivals of song, By F. Saunders 1866. d. Brooklyn, New York 13 Dec. 1870.
HOOPER, Frederic Edward Eden. b. 1842; clerk in the Admiralty, London; wrote many verses on Christmas and other cards; author of The Indian revolt. A poem, part i, 1858. d. 12 Feb. 1886.
HOOPER, George. b. Oxford 1824; a journalist in London 1848–86; helped to start The Leader weekly paper 1850; wrote for The Globe and The Spectator; edited Bombay Gazette at Bombay 1868–71; on staff of Daily Telegraph, London 1872–86; author of The Italian campaigns of general Bonaparte 1859; Waterloo, the downfall of the first Napoleon 1862, new ed. 1890; The campaign of Sedan 1887; Wellington, a memoir 1889. d. Southsea 15 May 1890. I.L.N. 31 May 1890 p. 680, portrait; Pictorial World 29 May 1890 p. 697, portrait.
HOOPER, John. b. Oxford 1802; went to U.S. of America 1839 and devoted himself to natural science; made collection of marine algæ which he left to Long island historical soc. d. Brooklyn, New York 26 April 1869. Appleton’s American Biog. iii, 252 (1887).
HOOPER, John Kinnersley (3 son of Richard Hooper of Queenhithe and Limpsfield, Surrey). b. 1791; wine merchant as Richard Hooper and Sons, 20 Queenhithe, London to death; alderman of Queenhithe ward 1840 to death, sheriff 1842–43, lord mayor 1847–48; received the French national guard at the mansion house 23 Oct. 1848; pres. of St. Bartholomew’s hospital. d. St. Leonards-on-Sea 17 April 1854. I.L.N. xi, 309 (1847), portrait.