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Hook was born on March 13, 1798 in London, England, the son of James Hook and his wife Anne, daughter of Sir Walter Farquhar.
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Hook was born on March 13, 1798 in London, England, the son of James Hook and his wife Anne, daughter of Sir Walter Farquhar.
Hook was educated first at Blundell's School in Tiverton, then Winchester College, and Christ Church, Oxford, where he graduated in 1821.
On taking Holy Orders, Hook served first as a curate at his father's church, St. Mildred's Church, Whippingham on the Isle of Wight, later as vicar at St. Mary's Church, Moseley, Birmingham, and, from December 1828, vicar of the Holy Trinity Church, Coventry. His support for the ideals of the Tractarians exposed him to considerable criticism. This was nowhere better demonstrated than in Leeds, which invited him to be its Vicar in 1837. The city was undergoing rapid expansion as one of the seats of the early industrial revolution, much of the commercial drive for which emerged from non-conformists. The established church in the city was a minority denomination - dissenters were even elected as churchwardens. In 1842 the elections produced a slate of Chartist churchwardens. One of his earliest acts was to arrange for the rebuilding of the church, to be paid by the church rate levied by the city authorities; this was in the face of understandable objections from non-conformists, who objected to a statutory levy which funded a - for Leeds - minority church. Hook went on to drive through the division of Leeds into 21 parishes, each with its own church. He took a cut in his income and moved to a smaller parsonage - but only on condition that every ground floor seat in all the parish churches in the town should be bought by the Ecclesiastical Commissioners. He fostered the building and support of some 30 schools. His interest in the education of children was not without controversy - this at a time long before the Education Acts of the late nineteenth century, and at a time that such bills as the "Ten Hour Act" seeking to limit the working hours of children were being considered. Hook's insistence on the necessity of education and the duty of society in this respect, to some extent, went in the face of some of his richest parishioners. Equally, his success in his endeavours and popularity amongst the people of Leeds reflect the fact that he reflected the Zeitgeist - the spirit of the age - by re-establishing the interest of the church in the affairs of the people of the city. The Parish Church remains as a physical legacy of Hook's work, being an early, important and influential high church Gothic revival design. Hook left Leeds to take up the Deanery of Chichester in 1859.
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Fellow of the Royal Society (1862), Dean of Chichester (1859-1875)
Hook possessed a simple manly character and zealous devotion to parochial work, which gained him the support of widely divergent classes.
Hook married Anna Delicia, (died 1870) daughter of Dr John Johnstone, physician, of Birmingham.
