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.

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.

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, 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).

HOOPER, ---; b. ; adm. ; KS in 1609 (Chapter Muniments 41289).

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.

HOPE, EDWARD, son of George Hope, St. Albans, Herts.; b.; in school lists 1656; a boarder; KS (aged 16) 1658; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1661, matr. 22 Aug 1661, Westminster Student 10 Mar 1662 – 30 Mar 1663, when expelled for drunkenness.

HOPPERTON, GEORGE; b. ; adm. ; KS 1540-4 (Chapter Muniments).

HOPTON, RICHARD COPE, brother of Edward Cope Hopton (qv); b. 22 Dec 1712; adm. (aged 11) Jun 1724; KS 1728; elected to Christ Church, Oxford 1732, matr. 15 Jun 1732, Westminster Student 31 May 1733 – void 13 Jan 1737; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 26 Oct 1731, called to bar 24 Oct 1737; Attorney-General for Glamorgan 1752 and for Breconshire 1761; FRS 12 Dec 1771; m. 1st, 24 Nov 1770 Miss Nelson, Bedford Row, Bloomsbury; m. 2nd, 19 May 1772 Elizabeth, widow of Rev. George Secker DD, Prebendary of Canterbury and of St. Paul’s, and dau. of John Bird, Coventry, Warwickshire; d. 17 Nov 1786.