Hook, Christopher, brother of Valentine Hook (q.v.); b. Sept. 14, 1902; adm. Sept. 27, 1917 (R); left Dec. 1919; d. 9 Feb. 1978.
HOOK, JAMES, eldest son of James Hook, organist and composer at Vauxhall Gardens, and his first wife Eliza Jane Madden; bapt. St. Giles in the Fields 18 Jun 1771; adm. 16 Jan 1786; KS (aged 15) 1788; said on one occasion to have dressed up as an old woman, and to have begged half a crown from Dr Vincent in Dean’s Yard (Forshall, Westminster School, 575); editor, The Trifler; etched the caricature “representing Justice as weighing the Microcosm [Etonian magazine] against the Trifler, and the former with its authors, and the King as a make-weight on their side, was made to kick the beam” (Southey, Life and Correspondence, i, 146); was not allowed to present himself for Election to the Universities in 1792 on account of this act of misbehaviour; St. Mary Hall, Oxford, matr. 8 Jun 1792; BA and MA 1799; BCL 1804; DCL 1806; ordained deacon 1796, priest (Winchester) 7 May 1797; apparently held livings in Gloucestershire, Leicestershire and Lincolnshire; Rector of Hertingfordbury, Herts. (disp. to hold with Rector of St. Andrew with St. Nicholas, Hertford 1805); Prebendary of Winchester 18 Oct 1807 – Aug 1825; Archdeacon of Huntingdon from 5 Jul 1814; Rector of Whippingham, Isle of Wight 1817-25 (disp. to hold with Vicar of Preston Candover, Hampshire 1817); Dean of Worcester from 12 Aug 1825, also Vicar of Bromsgrove, Worcs., from 1 Jun 1826, and Vicar of Stone, Worcs., from 12 Jun 1826; Master of St. Oswald’s Hospital, Worcester, from 25 Aug 1825; FRS 29 Feb 1816; author, Anguis in Herba, 1802, two novels and other works; m. 1 Jun 1797 Anne, sister of Sir Thomas Harvie Farquhar, Bart. (qv); d. 5 Feb 1828. DNB.
Hook, John Thomas, son of C. S. Hook of Hemel Hempstead, Herts; b. 17 Sept. 1907; adm. Sept. 1921 (H); left Mar. 1923.
Hook, Valentine, fourth son of Bryan Hook, of Churt, Farnham, Surrey, by Catherine Moseley, daughter of John Dewrance, of Tilford, in the same co.; b. May 22, 1895; adm. Jan. 20, 1910 (R); left July 1913; went to Cirencester Agricultural Coll. with a view to farming in British East Africa; 2nd Lieut. 7th (Service) Batt. the Queen's (Royal West Surrey Regt.) Nov. 2, 1914; went out to the western front in the summer of 1915; Lieut. Sept. 17, 1915; wounded at Montauban in July 1916; Capt. Nov. 1916; mentioned in despatches; killed in action at Cherisy, near Arras, May 3, 1917; unm.
HOOK, WILLIAM, son of William Hook, Lambeth, Surrey, and Esther ---; b.; adm.; at school 1791; KS (aged 15) 1795; Capt. of the School 1799; elected head to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1800, but went to Brasenose Coll. Oxford, matr. 12 Jun 1800; Ensign, Bedfordshire Militia, Sep 1803.
HOOKER, JOHN; b. ; adm. ; KS 16 Jan 1608/9 (see also Chapter Muniments 41289).
Hookins, Francis Nevill, son of John Hookins, of Dartford, Kent; b. May 15, 1893; adm. May 2, 1907 (H); left July 1910.
Hookins, Peter MacNeal, son of Cuthbert Walter Hookins of Battersea and Frances Mary Eleze, d. of Rev. David Griffiths, Vicar of Meliden, Flintshire; b. 3 Dec. 1936; adm. Sept. 1950 (R); left July 1954; a chartered accountant, ACA 1960, FCA 1970; m. 31 July 1970 Sara Elizabeth, d. of Reginald William Montford, civil servant, of Bromley, Kent; d. 7 Dec. 1990.
HOOPER, ---; b. ; adm. ; KS in 1609 (Chapter Muniments 41289).
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.