HOOPER, ---; b.; adm.; left 1656 (School List 1656, first quarter).
HOOPER, CHRISTIAN, son of Nicholas Hooper, Brownlow Street, Holborn, and Anne, dau. of Christian Levie; bapt. St. Andrew’s, Holborn 19 Dec 1729; adm. (aged 12) Jan 1741/2; left 1743; apprenticed to Thomas Perkins, St. James’s, Westminster, surgeon, 16 Feb 1744; Surgeon’s Mate, HMS Ferret (sloop of war); will proved PCC 2 Aug 1748.
HOOPER, DANIEL; b.; in under school lists 1716, 1718. [Brother of next : Whitmore]
HOOPER, EDWARD; b.; in under school list 1716. [“Russell Barker’s copy of the Under School list gives Ell not Edward; his brother is Dan. ” (Whitmore)]
Hooper, Francis Barrington, son of Barrington Hooper CBE, chairman Industrial Newspapers Ltd, and Josephine Mary, d. of Thomas Crook of Clapham; b. 29 Dec. 1912; adm. Sept. 1926 (H); left July 1931; Intell. Corps in WW2 (Maj.); Univ. of Lond., BA 1947; man. dir. Argus Press plc 1962-74; Master Worshipful Company of Tobacco Pipe Makers and Tobacco Blenders 197 5; chairman Elizabethan Club 1975-9; m. 23 July 1938 Audrey Evelyn, d. of Samuel Barder of Harrow; d. 25 June 1993.
HOOPER, GEORGE, son of George Hooper, Grimley, Worcs., and Joan, dau. of Edmund Giles, White Ladies Aston, Worcs.; b. 18 Nov 1640; adm. from St. Paul’s Sch.; KS; Richard Busby said of him that “he was the best scholar, the finest gentleman, and will make the completest bishop that ever was educated at Westminster School”; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1657, matr. 29 Oct 1657, Westminster Student, Tutor 1664-72; BA 16 Jan 1660/1; MA 1663; BD 1673; DD 1677; ordained; Chaplain to George Morley (qv), Bishop of Winchester 1672; Rector of East Woodhay, Hampshire 1672 – still 1691; Chaplain to Gilbert Sheldon, Archbishop of Canterbury 1673; Rector of Lambeth, Surrey 1675; Precentor and Prebendary of Exeter 16 Oct 1677 – Mar 1703/4; Almoner to Princess Mary of Orange at The Hague 1677-9; Chaplain in Ordinary to King Charles II 1680, still a Chaplain in Ordinary to William III and Mary in 1691 (Miege 1691); Dean of Canterbury 11 Jul 1691 – Mar 1703/4; Prolocutor, Lower House of Convocation 1701; consecrated Bishop of St. Asaph 31 Oct 1703; translated to Bath and Wells 14 Mar 1703/4; one of the original Busby Trustees named in Dr. Busby’s will; author, A Calculation of the Credibility of Human Testimony, and other works; m. 1678 Abigail, dau. of Richard Guilford; d. 6 Sep 1727. DNB.
HOOPER, GEORGE, son of George Hooper, Cleobury, Shropshire, and Joyce, dau. of James Greene, Cleobury Mortimer, Shropshire, scythesmith; b.; adm. (aged 13) 10 Jan 1714/5; Wadham Coll. Oxford, adm. servitor 5 Mar 1717/8, clerk 1719; BA 1721; MA 1725. [note Rev. George Hooper, Streatley, Berks., will proved PCC 19 Aug 1767]