HOOKER, JOHN; b. ; adm. ; KS 16 Jan 1608/9 (see also Chapter Muniments 41289).

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.

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, John Thomas, son of C. S. Hook of Hemel Hempstead, Herts; b. 17 Sept. 1907; adm. Sept. 1921 (H); left Mar. 1923.

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, Christopher, brother of Valentine Hook (q.v.); b. Sept. 14, 1902; adm. Sept. 27, 1917 (R); left Dec. 1919; d. 9 Feb. 1978.

Homfray, John Reginald, son of Frederick William Homfray, telephone manager, of Slough, Bucks, and Charlotte Ada, d. of Augustus Delvalle, bank officer, of Hove; b. 8 Mar. 1908; adm. Sept. 1921 (KS); left July 1926; Lieut. RA (TA) June 1939, Capt. Aug. 1940, Maj. Mar. 1950; TD 1947; an official of the Bank of England; d. 24 Mar. 1998.

HOME, WILLIAM ARCHIBALD, younger son of Sir Everard Home, Bart. (qv); b. 17 Nov 1800; adm. 11 Jan 1808; KS (aged 14) 1815; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1819, matr. 21 May 1819, Westminster Student (still 1829); BA 1822; MA 1825; a Roman Catholic convert; ordained as RC priest; d. at Palermo, Sicily 2 Feb 1848.

HOME, SIR EVERARD, BART., son of Robert Boyne Home, Greenlaw Castle, Berwickshire, Surgeon, 16th Light Dragoons, and Mary, dau. of Col. --- Hutchinson; b. 6 May 1756; adm. 17 Jan 1770; KS 1770; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1773, but was never adm.; pupil to his brother-in-law, the surgeon John Hunter, at St. George’s Hospital; qualified at Surgeons’ Hall 1778; Assistant Surgeon, Naval Hospital, Plymouth; Surgeon to 1st battn., 60th Foot 2 Dec 1782; Apothecary and Storekeeper, Jamaica 25 Dec 1782; half-pay 6 Oct 1784; Staff Surgeon, Great Britain 14 Jun 1793; retd. Sep 1794; after his return from Jamaica in 1784 Home acted as John Hunter’s assistant for some years; Lecturer on Anatomy, St. George’s Hospital 1792, Surgeon to St. George’s Hospital 1793-1827; Professor of Anatomy and Surgery, College of Surgeons 1804-13, 1821, Hunterior Orator 1814, 1822, President 1821; Serjeant-Surgeon to Kings George III and George IV from 9 Mar 1809; created baronet 27 Jun 1813; Surgeon to Chelsea Hospital from 1821; FRS 15 February 1787, Copley Medal 1807; his inexcusable destruction of Hunter’s MSS after using them in the preparation of his own papers for the Royal Society is much to be regretted; an enthusiastic OW who for many years came down to the School on 17 November in full dress to ask for an Early Play for the anniversary of Queen Elizabeth’s accession; edited Hunter’s treatise On the Blood, Inflammation and Gunshot Wounds, 1794; author, Lectures on Comparative Anatomy, 1814-28, and other works; m. 4 Nov 1792 Jane, widow of Stephen Thompson, and dau. of Rev. James Tunstall DD; d. 31 Aug 1832. DNB.

Homan, Brees, son of Ernest Homan, of Kensington, by Emma, daughter of Samuel Charles Brees, Surveyor-General of New Zealand; b. Sept. 28, 1879; adm. April 28, 1892 (A); left July 1893; Univ. Coll. London; A. M.I. Mech.E.; M. I. Struct. E.; served in France from Feb. 1915 to Nov. 1920; Major A. S. C. (T. F.) March 13, 1918; d. 1932.