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HOLMES, Sir William Richard (son of William Henry Holmes of Kilrea, co. Londonderry). b. London 1821; entered consular service at Erzeroum, Oct. 1841; vice consul at Batoom, Asia Minor 17 March 1846; consul at Diarbekir 23 Nov. 1852; consul in Bosnia 12 Jany. 1860; British delegate to commission for pacification of Herzegovina 1861; knighted at Osborne 13 Aug. 1877; retired from the service 1 Sep. 1877 on a pension; author of Sketches on the shores of the Caspian 1845. d. Yewhurst, Belvedere, Kent 19 Jany. 1882.

HOLMS, John (son of James Holms of Saucel Bank, Paisley). b. Saucel Bank 21 Sep. 1830; partner in firm of W. Holms and Brothers, spinners, Glasgow; M.P. Hackney, London 1868–85; a lord of the treasury April 1880 to May 1882; parliamentary sec. of board of trade 1882–5; author of The British army in 1875, its administration and organization 1875; Our military difficulty. d. 16 Cornwall gardens, Queen’s gate, London 31 March 1891. I.L.N. lxvi, 199, 200 (1875), portrait, 11 April 1891 p. 467, portrait.

HOLROYD, Edward (3 son of Sir George Sowley Holroyd 1758–1831, justice of court of Queen’s Bench). b. 24 July 1794; ed. at Charterhouse and Trin. coll. Cam.; admitted at Gray’s inn 26 Nov. 1812; special pleader under the bar 7 years; barrister G.I. 26 April 1826; a comr. of bankrupts Nov. 1828; a comr. of bankruptcy court Oct. 1831 to 31 Dec. 1869 when granted sum of £2000 on abolition of office; author of Observations upon the case of A. Thornton tried for the murder of Mary Ashford 1819. d. Elland lodge, Wimbledon 29 Jany. 1881.

HOLT, Alfred Henry (son of Henry Josiah Holt, pugilist 1792–1844). Reported prize fights for The Era, Morning Advertiser, Bell’s Life in London and Sportsman. d. 20 Nov. 1865 aged 39. bur. Nunhead cemetery.

HOLT, David. b. Chorlton upon Medlock, Manchester 13 Nov. 1828; assistant sec. of Lancashire and Yorkshire railway co. to death; author of Poems, rural and miscellaneous 1846; Lays of hero worship and other poems 1850; Janus, Lake sonnets and other poems 1853; Poems 1868. d. Altrincham, Cheshire 15 March 1880.

HOLT, Elise. b. London 11 July 1847; appeared as a comic singer, Surrey gardens, London 1863; pupil of Mdlle. Louise, danseuse 1863, and came out at the Victoria theatre as a dancer, and then as Cupid 26 Dec. 1864; played in burlesques at the Strand theatre 1865–8; appeared at Olympic theatre, Boston, U.S. America in burlesque of Lucretia Borgia 21 Dec. 1868 and at Waverly theatre, New York 18 Feb. 1869; visited California; (m. Henry Palmer). d. about 1873. T. A. Brown’s American stage (1870) 182, portrait.

HOLT, Thomas (son of a wool merchant, Leeds). b. Horbury, Yorkshire 1811; with his father at Leeds 1825–8, partner 1832; a wool buyer in London 1828–31; a wool buyer in Australia 1842–55; purchased large estates in Queensland and New South Wales; member for Stanley boroughs in legislative assembly, N.S.W. 1856 and for Newtown to 1866; colonial treasurer 6 June to 25 Aug. 1856; member of legislative council 1868; member of council on education 1873; author of Two speeches on the subject of education in New South Wales 1857. d. Halcot, Bexley, Kent 5 Sep. 1888. Heaton’s Australian Dict. of dates (1879) 95.

HOLT, Thomas Littleton. b. 1794 or 1795; known as Raggedy Holt; projected Weekly Chronicle; proprietor of Iron Times started during the railway mania 1845; edited Morning Chronicle; started many papers in London with G. A. A’Beckett; projected The Novel newspaper; started Ryland’s Iron trade circular at Birmingham; edited a weekly paper called Chat 1846; took an active part in popularising cheap literature and in the abolition of the paper duty; advertisement duty repealed partly owing to him 1853; edited The Sixpenny magazine 1863; John Horsleydown or the confessions of a thief 1860. d. The Burrows, Hendon 14 Sep. 1879. Reminiscences of an old Bohemian, ii, 35–46 (1882).

HOLYOAKE-GOODRICKE, Sir Francis Lyttelton, 1 Baronet (eld. son of Francis Holyoake of Tettenhall, Staffs. 1766–1835). b. Tettenhall 13 Nov. 1797; ed. at St. John’s coll. Cam., B.A. 1819; assumed name of Goodricke by r.l. 12 Dec. 1833; sheriff of Warwickshire 1834; M.P. for Stafford, Feb. to May 1835, for South Stafford, May 1835 to 1837; created baronet 31 March 1835; master of Quorn hounds in Leicestershire 1834–5; one of the very best riders after hounds of his time. d. Sherborne house, Malvern Wells 29 Dec. 1865. Burke’s Vicissitudes of families, ii, 398–9 (1869).

HOMAN, Sir William Jackson, 1 Baronet (2 son of Rev. Philip Homan). b. 1771; cr. baronet 1 Aug. 1801. d. Dromeroe, Cappoquin, co. Waterford 2 March 1852 aged 80. G.M. xxxvii, 406 (1852).

HOME, Cospatrick Alexander Ramey Home, 11 Earl of (eld. son of 10 Earl 1769–1841). b. Dalkeith house, N.B. 27 Oct. 1799; attaché to embassy at St. Petersburgh 1822–3; précis writer in foreign office 1824–7; under sec. of state for foreign affairs 9 June 1828 to 25 Nov. 1830; succeeded 12 Oct. 1841; a Scotch representative peer 1842–74; keeper of great seal of Scotland May 1853; cr. baron Douglas of Douglas co. Lanark in peerage of the U.K. 11 June 1875. d. near the Hirsel, Coldstream, Berwick 4 July 1881. bur. in church of St. Brides at Douglas 12 July. F.O. list 1882 p. 213.

HOME, Daniel Dunglas (son of William Home of the family of the earl of Home). b. near Edinburgh 20 March 1833; taken by his aunt to Greenville, Connecticut about 1842 where he became famous for his mysterious raps, guitar playing without hands, etc.; came to London April 1855 where he held private spiritual séances; held séances before emperor of the French, King of Prussia, and Queen of Holland 1857–8; expelled from Rome as a sorcerer Jany. 1864; gave a series of public readings in America 1864; founded in London with John Elliotson and S. C. Hall the Spiritual Athenæum, a society for the propagation of spiritualism 1866, lived as sec. at the Society’s rooms 22 Sloane st.; assumed name of Lyon-Home on being adopted as her son by a widow named Jane Lyon, who gave him £30,000 and assigned to him a mortgage security of £30,000, both sums were restored to her by the Court of Chancery 22 May 1868; gave public readings in the provinces 1869–70; author of Incidents in my life 1863, 2nd series 1872; Lights and Shadows of Spiritualism 1877. d. Auteuil, near Paris 21 June 1886. bur. at St. Germain-en-Laye. Annual register (1868) 187–206; The Mask (1868) 141–6, portrait; T. A. Trollope’s What I remember, i, 376–81; Nineteenth century, April 1890 pp. 577–81.

Note.—Robert Browning’s poem Mr. Sludge the medium is understood to be a study of Home.

HOME, David Milne (1 son of admiral Sir David Milne, d. 1845). b. 1804; ed. at Edin. univ., B.A. 1829, LLD. 1870; called to Scotch bar 1831; advocate depute 1841; succeeded to the family estate and took name of Home 1845; F.R.G.S.; tried to prevent appointment of Dr. Robert Wallace of the Old Greyfriars to the professorship of church history 1873, one of the last “heresy hunts” in the Church of Scotland; author of Our Social reforms needed in Scotland 1867; Scotch poor houses and English work houses 1873; The salmon Fisheries of Scotland 1882. d. Milne Graden, Coldstream 19 Sep. 1890. Times 23 Sep. 1890.

HOME, Francis (eld. son of James Home, professor of materia medica in Univ. of Edin.) b. Edin. 1800; ed. at high school and univ. of Edin.; advocate 1825; sheriff substitute of co. Kinross 1838 and of co. Linlithgow 1838 to death. d. Main’s house near Linlithgow 20 Jany. 1882.

HOME, Sir James Everard, 2 Baronet (elder son of Sir Everard Home, 1 bart., serjeant surgeon to George III.) b. 25 Oct. 1798; entered navy 10 April 1810; succeeded 31 Aug. 1832; captain 5 Dec. 1837; C.B. 24 Dec. 1842; captain of the “Calliope” 26 guns 28 Nov. 1850 to death; F.R.S. d. Sydney 2 Nov. 1853. bur. Camperdown cemetery, Sydney 4 Nov.

HOME, John. Entered Bengal army 1803; colonel 57 Bengal native infantry 1854 to death; M.G. 20 June 1854. d. Weston, Bath 12 April 1860.

HOME, John Home (son of John Home of Bassenleau, co. Berwick). b. 1797; ensign 1 foot guards 19 Jany. 1813, lieut. col. 15 April 1845 to 1 April 1849 when placed on h.p.; L.G. 22 Sep. 1858; colonel 56 foot 17 Oct. 1859 to death. d. Pall Mall, London 22 April 1860.

HOME, North Dalrymple. b. Long Ashton, Aug. 1856; ed. at Bristol gram. sch. at Montreux and Paris; engaged in London and Westminster bank 2 years; student R. Acad. of music; tenor singer in German Reed’s Co.; played in W. S. Gilbert’s Ages Ago, and in The Friar operetta by Comyns Carr 15 Dec. 1886. d. Clifton 3 July 1887. The Era, July 1887 p.

HOME, Richard. b. 1789; entered Bengal army 1804; colonel 43 Bengal N.I. 7 April 1851 to 1861; colonel 6 Bengal N.I. 1861 to death; M.G. 28 Nov. 1854. d. Brighton 19 April 1862 aged 73.

HOME, Robert (eld. son of James Home, captain 30 foot). b. Antigua 29 Dec. 1837; 1 lieut. R.E. 7 April 1856, major 25 Aug. 1873 to death; deputy assistant Q.M.G. at Aldershot 1865–70; commander of R.E. on the Ashantee expedition 1873; C.B. 31 March 1874; assistant Q.M.G. at head quarters 1 April 1876; sent to Turkey to report on defence of Constantinople 1876; British comr. for delimitation of boundaries of Bulgaria 1877; contributed to Quarterly Rev. and Macmillan’s Mag.; translated Baron Stoffel’s Military Reports 1872; author of The law of recruiting 1872 and A précis of modern tactics 1873 the best English book on the subject. d. 21 Regent’s park terrace, London 29 Jany. 1879; Anne Josephine his widow (dau. of J. Hunt) granted civil list pension of £300, 21 April 1879. Graphic xix, 372 (1879), portrait; I.L.N. lxxiv, 185 (1879), portrait.

HOMER, John James. b. Wandsworth 1809; educated for a solicitor; proprietor of Dolphin tavern, Mare st. Hackney; was the means of abolishing a brewers’ impost known as butt-money 1836; hon. treasurer of the London Licensed Victuallers’ Protection Soc. 1838 to death; governor of Incorporated Soc. of Licensed victuallers 1850; doubled the size of the Morning Advertiser 1850; common councilman for ward of Cornhill 1866; contested Hackney 18 Nov. 1868; wine and spirit merchant 2 Royal Exchange buildings, London 1852 to death; author of A summary of the laws relating to licensed victuallers 1839; Monarch fire and life insurance co., Scenes at the election for a director 1852. d. at res. of his son-in-law Dr. William Slimon 4 York place, Bow road, London 3 March 1888. Licensed Victuallers’ Almanack (1862) 95–9, portrait; Licensed Victuallers’ Year book (1875) 70–1, portrait.

HONE, Ven. Richard Brindley (2 son of Joseph Terry Hone of Faringdon, Berks.) b. 1805; ed. at Brasen. coll. Ox., B.A. 1827, M.A. 1831; R. of Halesowen, Worcs. 1836 to death; hon. canon of Worcester 10 Nov. 1845 to death, archdeacon 7 Nov. 1849 to death; author of Lives of eminent Christians 4 vols. 1834–43, 19 charges and 41 New Year’s addresses. d. Halesowen rectory 5 May 1881.

HONEY, George Alfred (mother Mrs. Down d. 27 Nov. 1881 aged 90). b. 25 May 1823; call-boy Adelphi theatre 1841; made debut in London at Princess’s theatre Nov. 1848 as Pan in Midas; member of Pyne and Harrison company at Covent Garden 1858 etc.; played in Macfarren’s opera Robin Hood at Her Majesty’s 1860; played Eccles in Caste at Prince of Wales’s 1867, 1871 and 1879; Graves in Money at Holborn 1869 and at Prince of Wales’s 1872, 1875 and 1879; Our Mr. Jenkins in The Two Roses at Vaudeville 1870; visited U.S. of America 1878; seized with a fit of paralysis while performing at Prince of Wales’s 1879. d. 127 Camden road, London 28 May 1880. Pascoe’s Dramatic List (1880) 183–4; Illust. Sport, and Dram. News, x 468–9 (1879) portrait, xiii 281 (1880), portrait, xvii 125 (1882), view of tomb; The Era 30 May 1880 p. 6, 6 June p. 7; Mr. and Mrs. Bancroft On and off the stage 7th ed. (1889) 107, 156, 274, 281–3.

HONNER, Maria (dau. of Eugene Macarthy, actor, d. Dramatic coll. 1886 aged 78). b. Enniskillen Ireland 21 Dec. 1812; played with Kean and Macready in Ireland; chief star at Pavilion theatre, London 1831–2; at Coburg theatre 1833, at Sadler’s Wells 1838–43, at Surrey theatre 1845, at City of London theatre 1845; excellent in Shakespearean parts, in Julia, in the Hunchback, and other roles; (m. (1) 21 May 1836 Robert W. Honner 1809–52; m. (2) Frederick Morton, stage manager); she d. 4 Jany. 1870. Actors by gaslight 4 Aug. 1838 pp. 121–2, portrait; Theatrical Times 10 Oct. 1846 pp. 137–8, portrait.

HONNER, Robert William (youngest son of John Honner of Soho, London, solicitor, d. about 1817). b. 24 Percy st. Tottenham court road, London 18 Jany. 1809; apprenticed to Charles Leclercq, ballet master 1817–20; made his debut at Sans Pareil theatre in a ballet 1818; actor at Coburg 1825; stage manager at Surrey 1835–38, manager 1842–46; lessee of Sadler’s Wells 1838–41 and of City of London theatre 1846; stage manager of Standard theatre 1848 to death, d. Nichols sq. Hackney road, London 31 Dec. 1852. Theatrical Times 27 March 1847 pp. 89–90, portrait.

HONNER, Sir Robert William. Entered Bombay army 1820; lieut. 4 Bombay N.I. 1 May 1824, lieut. col. 15 Sep. 1855 to 1861; commander of Nussurabad 6 March 1858 to 24 Oct. 1862; commander of Scinde division 28 March 1863 to 26 May 1866, C.B. 21 Jany. 1858, K.C.B. 28 March 1865; M.G. 17 Sep. 1861. d. Lower Berkeley st., Portman sq., London 8 Nov. 1868.

HONY, Ven. William Edward (2 son of Rev. Wm. Hony, V. of Liskeard, Cornwall 1778–95). b. Liskeard 7 Feb. 1788; fellow of Ex. coll. Ox. 30 June 1808 to 3 July 1827, B.A. 1811, M.A. 1812, B.D. 1823; V. of South Newington, Oxon. 24 Oct. 1818 to 1827; R. of Baverstock 4 June 1827 to death; preb. of Salisbury 29 July 1841; archdeacon of Salisbury 3 Aug. 1846 to death, and canon residentiary 1857 to death; F.G.S. 1831; author of Church Rates 1859. d. The Canonry, Salisbury 7 Jany. 1875. I.L.N. lxvi 403 (1875).

HORNYGOLD, William, b. 1797; an artist; lived in parish of St. Clement Danes, London; known for his drawings of theatrical characters for the toy theatre, to which he added sketches of the scenery incidental to the pieces performed; his portrait of C. Kemble as Hen. viii. is No. 55 in Skelt’s portraits: drew the illustrations for comic songs; fell down intoxicated outside the ‘Fountain,’ 4 Clare Market, London, taken to the Strand union workhouse, where he d. 12 Feb. 1867 aged 69. J. Diprose’s Some account of parish of St. Clement Danes i, 165–6 (1868).

HONYMAN, Sir George Essex, 4 Baronet (eld. son of Sir Ord Honyman, 3 Bart. 1794–1863). b. Strawberry hill, Middlesex 22 Jany. 1819; pupil of Martineau, Malton and Trollope, solicitors, London 1838–40; pupil of Sir Fitzroy Kelly and David O. Gibbons, the special pleader 1840, etc.; practised as a pleader 1842–9; barrister M.T. 8 June 1849, bencher Nov. 1866; best commercial lawyer of his day; Q.C. 23 July 1866; sergeant at law 23 Jany. 1873; judge of court of common pleas 23 Jany. 1873, resigned 21 Feb. 1875. d. Tunbridge Wells 16 Sep. 1875. Law mag. and law review i, 122–27 (1875); I.L.N. lxvii, 319, 333, 566, (1875), portrait.

HONYWOOD, Rev. Philip James (3 son of William Honywood of Siston, Kent). b. 1809; matric. from Trin. coll. Ox. 29 May 1827 aged 18, B.A. 1831; R. of Markshall, Essex 23 Dec. 1838 to 1866; R. of Bradwell next Coggeshall, Essex 27 March 1840 to 1845; R. of Colne-Wake, Essex 1866 to death; kept beagles at Markshall 1851–3 which were always followed on foot, sold his hounds 1853; injured himself hunting on foot three days a week d. Colne-Wake 19 Nov. 1874 aged 65. Baily’s Mag. xxix, 150–5 (1877).

HOOD, Sir Alexander, 2 Baronet (only son of Alexander Hood, capt. R.N., slain on board his ship the ‘Mars’ 1798). b. Wootton, Somerset 5 July 1793; ed. at Ex. coll. Ox., M.A. 1814; K.C.B. 22 May 1812 as proxy for his uncle Sir S. Hood; succeeded as 2 baronet 24 Dec. 1814; M.P. West Somerset 1847 to death. d. 43 Wimpole st. London 7 March 1851.

HOOD, Charles. b. 18 Sep. 1825; ed. at Sandhurst; ensign 3 foot 26 June 1844, captain 1851 to 8 Jany. 1856; led the ladder party in the attack on the Redan 8 Oct. 1855; major 58 foot 28 Jany. 1859, lieut. col. 23 Nov. 1860 to 23 May 1874 when placed on h.p.; placed on retired list with hon. rank of L.G. 1 July 1881. d. 8 Feb. 1883.

HOOD, Charles (son of William Hood, an ironmaster 18 Earl st. Blackfriars). b. 1805; ironmaster with his brother in London; made researches into chemistry of combustion of coal, silver medal of Soc. of Arts; F.R.S. 7 Dec. 1843; F.R.A.S.; F.S.S.; chairman of British home for incurables 1861–6; author of A practical treatise on warming buildings by hot water, to which are added Remarks on ventilation 1837, 5 ed. 1879. d. 10 Leinster gardens, Bayswater, London 10 Dec. 1889.

HOOD, Rev. Edwin Paxton (son of a sailor in the navy). b. at house of bishop Porteous 34 Half Moon st. Piccadilly, London 24 Oct. 1820; began to lecture on temperance and peace about 1840; Congregational minister at North Nibley, Gloucs. 1852–7, at Offord road, Islington 1857–62 and 1873, at Queen sq. church, Brighton 1862–73, at Cavendish st. Manchester 1877 to 1880, at Falcon sq. Aldersgate st. London 1882 to death; editor of the Eclectic and Congregational Review, of the Argonaut and The Preacher’s Lantern; author of Old England 1851; William Wordsworth, a biography 1856; The Peerage of Poverty 1 series 1859, 3 ed. 1859, 2 series 1861, 5 ed. 1870 and 50 other books. d. suddenly at Paris 12 June 1885. Congregational Year-Book (1886) 178–82.

HOOD, Francis Grosvenor (2 son of lieut. col. Francis Wheler Rood, killed in action 2 March 1814). b. 4 March 1809; ensign grenadier guards 30 April 1827, captain 31 Dec. 1841, major of 3 battalion 20 June 1854 to death; leading his battalion gallantly contributed to defeat of the enemy at battle of the Alma 20 Sep. 1854; killed in the trenches before Sebastopol 18 Oct. 1854. Kinglake’s Invasion of the Crimea 6 ed. iii 220–2, 239 et seq. iv 442.

HOOD, Peter. b. Gateshead 1808; ed. at St. George’s hospital; L.S.A. 1831, M.D. St. Andrews 1863; practised in London among the upper classes; discouraged the practice of blood letting; a keen sportsman, fly fisher and whist player; treasurer of Fisheries’ preservation soc.; president West Herts. medical assoc.; author of Practical observations on diseases fatal to children 1845; The successful treatment of scarlet fever 1857; A treatise on gout, rheumatism and the allied affections 1871, 3 ed. 1885. d. Watford, Herts. 18 Sep. 1890. Lancet 27 Sep. 1890 p. 699.

HOOD, Rev. Samuel. b. Devizes 27 Dec. 1782; received episcopal ordination at Stirling, May 1826; minister of congregation in Trinity house, Dundee 1826–37; restored episcopacy at Rothesay and was minister there 1838, helped to establish seven churches in his district; dean of diocese of Argyle and the Isles 1847 to death; D.D. by archbishop of Canterbury 1870. d. Rothesay 30 May 1872. Norrie’s Dundee celebrities (1873) 392.

HOOD, Samuel. b. Moyle, co. Donegal 1800; emigrated to Philadelphia 1826, a member of the bar there; author of Practical treatise on the laws relating to registers, registers’ courts, guardians and trustees in Pennsylvania 1847; A practical treatise on the law of decedents in Pennsylvania 1847; A brief account of the Society of the Friendly Sons of St. Patrick 1844. d. Philadelphia 1875.

HOOD, Thomas (only son of Thomas Hood the poet 1798–1845). b. Lake house, Wanstead, Essex 19 Jany. 1835; granted a civil list pension of £50, 4 Oct. 1847; commoner at Pemb. coll. Ox. 1853; edited the Liskeard Gazette 1858–59; clerk in the war office 11 July 1860 to May 1865; edited a periodical called Saturday Night 1862; edited Fun, May 1865 to death; Tom Hood’s Comic Annual first issued 1867; author of Captain Master’s children 3 vols. 1865; A golden heart 3 vols. 1868; Rules of rhyme, a guide to English versification 1869 and many other books. d. Gloucester cottage, Peckham Rye, Surrey 20 Nov. 1874. Poems by Thomas Hood the younger, with a memoir by his sister Frances Freeling Broderip 1877; Cartoon portraits (1873) 64–65, portrait; Illust. sporting news, iv, 357 (1865), portrait.

HOOD, Thomas H. Cockburn. b. 1820; in Australia and New Zealand to 1877; inherited Walton hall, Kelso from a relative; author of The Rutherfords of that ilk 188-; The house of Cockburn, with anecdotes of the times in which many of them played a part, Edin. 1888, and of many scientific papers. d. Edinburgh 16 Jany. 1889. The Bookseller 6 March 1889 p. 228.

HOOD, Sir William Charles (only son of Dr. William Chamberlayne Hood, d. Berners st. hotel, London 16 Dec. 1879 aged 89). b. South Lambeth 1824; ed. at Brighton and Trin. coll. Dublin; M.D. St. Andrews 1846; F.R.C.P. Edin. 1850; F.R.C.P. London 1863; treasurer of Bridewell and Bethlehem hospital July 1868 to death; lord chancellor’s visitor in lunacy to death; knighted at Windsor castle 7 July 1868. d. Bridewell royal hospital, London 4 Jany. 1870.

HOOF, William. b. 1788; a railway contractor. d. Madeley house, Kensington 11 Aug. 1855, leaving property exceeding half a million.

HOOK, Anna Delicia (dau. of John Johnson, physician, Birmingham). b. 1812; author of Some Meditations for every day in the year 1864; The Cross of Christ 1855 which was edited by her husband; (m. June 1829 Rev. Walter Farquhar Hook 1798–1875). d. 5 May 1871 aged 59 bur. churchyard of Mid Lavant near Chichester 11 May.

HOOK, Very Rev. Walter Farquhar (eld. child of Very Rev. James Hook 1771–1828, dean of Worcester). b. Conduit st. London 13 March 1798; ed. at Hertford, Tiverton, Winchester, and Ch. Ch. Ox., B.A. 1821, M.A. 1824, B.D. and D.D. 1837, student of Ch. Ch. 1817; C. of Whippingham, Isle of Wight 1821–25; P.C. of Moseley near Birmingham 1826–31; chaplain in ord. to the sovereign 1827 to death; V. of Holy Trin. Coventry 1828 to 1837; preb. of Linc. cath. 1832 to 1859; select preacher univ. of Ox. 1833–34 and 1858–59; V. of Leeds 1837 to 1859; preached his famous sermon Hear the Church before the Queen 17 June 1838, 31 ed. 1841, circulated 100,000 copies; dean of Chichester 24 Feb. 1859 to death, installed 19 March 1859; F.R.S. 5 June 1862; author of A Church Dictionary 1842, 14 ed. 1887; An ecclesiastical biography 8 vols. 1845–52; Lives of the archbishops of Canterbury 12 vols. 1860–76 and about 70 other books. d. the deanery, Chichester 20 Oct. 1875, memorial church at Leeds consecrated 29 Jany. 1880. Life and letters of W. F. Hook By W. R. W. Stephens 2 vols. 1878; Illust. news of the world, iii, (1859), portrait; Dent’s Birmingham (1880) 427, portrait; Graphic xii, 447, 448 (1875), portrait.