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HERBERT, GEORGE, fourth son of Sir Richard Herbert, Kt, Montgomery Castle, Montgomeryshire, and Magdalen, dau. of Sir Richard Newport, Kt; b. 3 Apr 1593; adm. in twelfth year; KS ; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1608, adm. scholar 1609, matr. 18 Dec 1609; 2nd in “ordo” 1612/3; BA 1612/3; MA 1616; Minor Fellow, Trinity Coll. 3 Oct 1614, Major Fellow 15 Mar 1615/6 – c. 1621 [check]; Praelector in Rhetoric and Deputy Public Orator 1618, Public Orator 1619-27; ordained deacon by Jul 1626, priest (Salisbury) 19 Sep 1630; Prebendary of Lincoln from 8 Jul 1626; Herbert had earlier aspired to preferment in service of the State, but after forming an intimate friendship with Nicholas Ferrar (of Little Gidding), he decided to eschew the “painted pleasures of the Court”; Rector of Fugglestone with Bemerton, Wilts., from 26 Apr 1630; repaired Bemerton Church and rebuilt the parsonage, where he wrote his famous sacred poems, edited by Ferrar and published posthumously under the title The Temple, Sacred Poems and Private Ejaculations, 1633; m. 5 Mar 1628/9 Jane, dau. of Charles Danvers, Baynton, Wilts.; d. 3 Mar 1632/3. Memorial window in baptistery, Westminster Abbey. DNB.

HICKMAN, CHARLES, third son of William Hickman, Barnack, Northants, and Abigail, youngest dau. of William Pargiter, Greatworth, Northants; b.; adm. May 1663; a boarder; KS 1665; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1667, matr. 13 Jul 1667, aged 18, Westminster Student 14 Sep 1668 – void 1689, Tutor 1675-80, Catechist 1684; BA 1671; MA 1674; BD 1684; DD 6 Feb 1684/5; ordained; Chaplain to James Brydges, 8th Baron Chandos, Ambassador at Constantinople 1680; Rector of Norton juxta Twycross, Leics., Jan – Apr 1688; Rector of Farnham Royal, Bucks., 1688-1703; Rector of Taplow, Bucks., 1689/90-1703; Chaplain to William III and Mary (by Oct 1690), and to Queen Anne; Lecturer, St. James’s, Westminster 1692; Chaplain to Laurence Hyde, Earl of Rochester, Lord Lieut. Ireland 1701; Bishop of Derry from 11 Jun 1703; lived chiefly in England; m. 15 Apr 1703 Anne, younger dau. of Sir Roger Burgoyne, Bart.; d. 28 Nov 1713. Buried South Aisle, Westminster Abbey. DNB.

HILL, SIR RICHARD, BART., eldest son of Sir Rowland Hill, Bart., MP, is first wife Jane, dau. of Sir Brian Broughton, Bart., MP; b. 6 Jun 1732; adm. Shrewsbury Sch. 1742; adm. Jun 1744 (Stephens'); left 1750; Magdalen Coll. Oxford, matr. 8 Dec 1750; MA 2 Jul 1754; Grand Tour (Italy) 1756-7; a champion of George Whitefield and the Calvinistic Methodists 1757; attacked Oxford Univ. for expelling Methodist undergraduates 1768; defended Calvinism against criticisms by John Wesley and Fletcher of Madeley 1770; MP Shropshire 1780-1806; succ. father as 2nd baronet 7 Aug 1783; of Hawkstone, Shropshire; engaged in controversy with Archdeacon Daubeny 1798-9 and with Bishop Tomline of Lincoln 1803; author, religious pamphlets; d. unm. 25 Nov 1808. DNB.

HODGES, NATHANIEL, son of Very Rev. Thomas Hodges DD, Dean of Hereford, previously Vicar of Kensington, Middlesex; b. 13 Sep 1629; adm.; KS; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1646, but went to Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 27 Feb 1650/1, Canoneer Student 1648-60, Faculty Student 1660-1; BA 13 Feb 1651/2; MA 1654; BM and DM 1659; took a house in Walbrook, London, and commenced medical practice there; MRCP 30 Sep 1659, FRCP 2 Apr 1672, Censor 1682, Harveian Orator 1683; conspicuous for his services to the sick during the plague of 1665; author, Loimologia 1672; m.; d. 10 Jun 1688, while confined to Ludgate Prison for debt. DNB.

HODGSON, BERNARD, son of Mark Hodgson, St. Martin’s in the Fields, Westminster, and Eleanor --- (IGI); bapt. St. Martin’s in the Fields 5 Nov 1743 (IGI); in school list 1754; KS (Capt., aged 14) 1759; Capt. of the School 1763; elected head to Christ Church, Oxford 1764, matr. 20 Jun 1764, Westminster Student 24 Dec 1764 – void 31 Oct 1776 (expiry year of grace as Principal of Hertford Coll. ), Tutor 1772-5, Junior Censor 1773-4; BA 1768; MA 1771; ordained deacon (Oxford) 24 Dec 1769; Principal of Hertford Coll., Oxford from 30 Oct 1775; DCL 1776; Vicar of Tolpuddle, Dorset, from 2 Dec 1775; translated Solomon’s Song, Proverbs and Ecclesiastes; m. 1 May 1783 Harriet Sainsbury, Chippenham, Wiltshire; d. 28 May 1805. DNB.

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.

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.

IMPEY, ELIJAH BARWELL, son of Sir Elijah Impey (qv); bapt. 6 Aug 1779; adm.; at school 1791; Min. Can. (aged 13) 1793; KS 1794; Capt. of the School 1798; elected head to Christ Church, Oxford 1799, matr. 22 May 1799, Westminster Student 24 Dec 1799 – Nov 1806, Faculty Student from 4 Nov 1806; BA 1803; MA 1806; Cornet, 14th Light Dragoons 15 Dec 1808; retd. Jun 1809; his Memoirs of his father, written “in refutation of the calumnies of the Right Hon. Thomas Babington Macaulay”, were published in 1846, and contain interesting references to the school and to his schoolfellows; d. unm. 3 May 1849.

JACKSON, WILLIAM, brother of Cyril Jackson (qv); bapt. 28 Feb 1751; adm. Manchester GS 1762; adm.; KS (Capt., aged 13) 1764; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1768, matr. 1 Jun 1768, Westminster Student 24 Dec 1768 – void 2 Aug 1799 (Canon), Tutor 1771-95, Junior Censor 1779-82; Chancellor’s Prize for Latin Verse 1770; BA 1772; MA 1775; BD 1783; DD 1799; ordained deacon 18 Oct 1778, priest 3 Oct 1779 (both York); Chaplain to William Markham, Archbishop of York (adm. 1733, qv); Prebendary of Southwell 23 Sep 1780; Vicar of St. Mary Magdalen, Oxford 1782; Prebendary of York 26 Mar1783 – Mar 1812; Rector of Beeford, Yorkshire East Riding; Preacher at Lincoln’s Inn 1783-1812; Regius Professor of Greek, Oxford 19 Dec 1783; Canon of Christ Church, Oxford, from 2 Aug 1799; consecrated Bishop of Oxford 23 Feb 1812; Clerk of Closet, Royal Household, from c. 1813; Busby Trustee 14 May 1814; d. unm. 2 Dec 1815. DNB.

JAMES, WILLIAM, son of Henry James, Dorset, and Barbara, dau. of Rev. William Sutton, Rector of Blandford St. Mary, Dorset; b.; adm.; KS (Capt. ) 1646; failed to obtain election to either University 1649, aged 15, but elected head to Christ Church, Oxford 1650, matr. 27 Nov 1650, Westminster Student; BA 2 Feb 1653/4; MA 1656; became teaching assistant to Richard Busby (qv), “his most loving master”, before he had taken any degree, much to the disgust of Edward Bagshaw (KS 1644, qv); Usher, Westminster School 1658-61, Under Master from 1661; author of Eisagoge in Linguam Chaldaicam in usum Scholae Regae Westmonast., 1651, which he dedicated to Busby, his “tutor, parent, and friend”; buried South Aisle, Westminster Abbey 2 Jul 1663. DNB.