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]
Hooper, John Joseph, brother of Francis Barrington Hooper (qv); b. 9 Mar. 1920; adm. May 1933 (H); left July 1938; RAF in WW2, served Middle East; chairman Industrial Newspapers plc; m. 18 June 1949 Margaret Ursula, d. of Albert William Harbour of Harrow; d. 26 Sept. 1994.
HOOPER, JOHN, son of John Hooper, Enfield, Middlesex, citizen and merchant taylor, and Ann, dau. of Nicholas Cooke, Old Manor, Greenwich, Kent; b.; adm. (aged 12) Mar 1714/5; in under school list 1718; petitioned in 1722 that some portion of his fasther’s estate be paid him to enable him “to go to the East Indies or other place beyond the Seas” to seek his fortune; living 1735.