Background
The son of John Hooper of Marylebone, he was born in London.
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Robert Hooper
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Education
He entered Pembroke College, Oxford, on 24 October 1796, graduated Bachelor of Arts in 1803, Master of Arts
Career
After a course of medical study in London he was appointed apothecary to the Marylebone workhouse infirmary. and Bachelor of Medicine in 1804. He was prevented from proceeding to Doctorate.M. at the University of Oxford, but he was created Doctor of Medicine of the University of Street Andrews on 16 December 1805, and admitted licentiate of the Royal College of Physicians on 23 December 1805. Settling in Savile Row, Hooper lectured there on the practice of medicine.
He made a study of pathology, and formed a collection of illustrative specimens.
Hooper died in Bentinck Street, Manchester Square, on 6 May 1835, in his sixty-third year.
