See also:

• THEODORE
• THEODORE (602-690)
• THEODORE (Fedor) GRIGORIEVICH ORLOV, COUNT (1741–1796)
• THEODORE (Rus. Fedor, or Feodor)

THEODORE See also:

• EDWARD

EDWARD See also:

• HOOK, JAMES CLARKE (1819-1907)
• THEODORE EDWARD HOOK (1788-1841)
• HOOK, WALTER FARQUHAR (1798-1875)

HOOK (1788-1841)  , See also:

• ENGLISH

English author, was See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born in See also:

• LONDON

London on the 22nd of See also:

• SEPTEMBER (Lat. septem, seven)

September 1788 . He spent a See also:

• YEAR

year at See also:

• HARROW

Harrow, and subsequently matriculated at See also:

• OXFORD
• OXFORD, EARLS OF
• OXFORD, EDWARD DE VERE, 17TH EARL
• OXFORD, JOHN DE VERE, 13TH EARL OF (1443-1513)
• OXFORD, PROVISIONS OF
• OXFORD, ROBERT DE VERE, 9TH EARL OF (1362-1392)
• OXFORD, ROBERT HARLEY, 1ST

Oxford, but he never actually resided at the university . His See also:

• FATHER

father, See also:

• JAMES
• JAMES (Gr. 'IlrKw,l3or, the Heb. Ya`akob or Jacob)
• JAMES (JAMES FRANCIS EDWARD STUART) (1688-1766)
• JAMES, 2ND EARL OF DOUGLAS AND MAR(c. 1358–1388)
• JAMES, DAVID (1839-1893)
• JAMES, EPISTLE OF
• JAMES, GEORGE PAYNE RAINSFOP
• JAMES, HENRY (1843— )
• JAMES, JOHN ANGELL (1785-1859)
• JAMES, THOMAS (c. 1573–1629)
• JAMES, WILLIAM (1842–1910)
• JAMES, WILLIAM (d. 1827)

James See also:

• HOOK, JAMES CLARKE (1819-1907)
• HOOK, THEODORE EDWARD (1788-1841)
• HOOK, WALTER FARQUHAR (1798-1875)

Hook (1746–1827), the composer of numerous popular songs, took See also:

• GREAT

great delight in exhibiting the boy's extraordinary musical and metrical gifts, and the precocious See also:

• THEODORE
• THEODORE (602-690)
• THEODORE (Fedor) GRIGORIEVICH ORLOV, COUNT (1741–1796)
• THEODORE (Rus. Fedor, or Feodor)

Theodore became " the little pet See also:

• LION
• LION (Lat, leo, leonis; Gr. Mew)

lion of the See also:

• GREEN, A
• GREEN, ALEXANDER HENRY (1832—1896)
• GREEN, DUFF (1791—1875)
• GREEN, JOHN RICHARD (1837—1883)
• GREEN, MATTHEW (1696-1737)
• GREEN, THOMAS HILL (1836-1882)
• GREEN, VALENTINE (1739–1813)
• GREEN, WILLIAM HENRY (.1825–1900)

green See also:

• ROOM

room." At the See also:

• AGE (Fr. age, through late Lat. aetaticum, from aetas)

age of sixteen, in See also:

• CONJUNCTION (from Lat. conjungere, to join together)

conjunction with his father, he scored a dramatic success with The Soldier's Return, a comic See also:

• OPERA (Italian for " work ")

opera, and this he rapidly followed up with a See also:

• SERIES (a Latin word from serere, to join)

series of over a dozen sparkling ventures, the instant popularity of which was hardly dependent on the inimit able acting of See also:

• JOHN
• JOHN (1167–1216)
• JOHN (1290-c. 1320)
• JOHN (1296-1346)
• JOHN (1371–1419)
• JOHN (1468-1532)
• JOHN (1801-1873)
• JOHN (Heb. llni')
• JOHN (ZAPOLYA) (1487-1540)
• JOHN, 4TH MARQUESS OF TWEEDDALE (c. 1695-1762)
• JOHN, DON (1545-1578)
• JOHN, DON (1629–1679)
• JOHN, GOSPEL OF ST
• JOHN, or HAYS (1513–1571)
• JOHN, THE APOSTLE
• JOHN, THE EPISTLES OF

John See also:

• LISTON, JOHN (c. 1776-1846)
• LISTON, ROBERT (1794-1847)

Liston and See also:

• CHARLES
• CHARLES (1270-1325)
• CHARLES (1421-1461)
• CHARLES (1525-1574)
• CHARLES (c. 1319-1364)
• CHARLES (Fr. Charles; Span. Carlos; Ital. Carlo; Ger. Karl; derived from O.H.G. Charal,latinized as Carolus, meaning originally " man ": cf. Mod.Ger., Kerl," fellow," A.S. ceorl, Mod. Eng. " churl ")
• CHARLES (KARL EITEL ZEPHYRIN LUDWIG; in Rum. CAROL)
• CHARLES [KARL ALEXANDER] (1712-1780)
• CHARLES, ELIZABETH (1828-1896)
• CHARLES, JACQUES ALEXANDRE CESAR (1746-1823)
• CHARLES, THOMAS (1755-1814)

Charles See also:

• MATHEWS, CHARLES (1776-1835)
• MATHEWS, THOMAS (1676-1751)

Mathews . But Hook gave himself up for some ten of the best years of his See also:

• LIFE

life to the pleasures of the See also:

• TOWN

town, winning a foremost See also:

• PLACE (through Fr. from Lat. platea, street; Gr. IrAar6s, wide)

place in the See also:

• WORLD

world of See also:

• FASHION (adapted from Fr. facon, agon, Lat. factio, making, facere, to do or make)

fashion by his matchless See also:

• POWERS, HIRAM (1805-1873)

powers of improvisation and See also:

• MIMICRY

mimicry, and startling the public by the audacity of his See also:

• PRACTICAL

practical jokes . His unique See also:

• GIFT (a common Teutonic word, cf. Ger. die Gift, gift, das Gift, poison, formed from the Teut. stem gab-, to give, cf. Dutch geven, Ger. geben; in O. Eng. the word appears with initial y, the guttural of later English is due to Scandinavian influence)

gift of improvising the words and the See also:

• MUSIC

music of songs eventually charmed the See also:

• PRINCE
• PRINCE (Lat. princeps, from primus capio, " I am the first to take "; Ital. principe, Fr. prince)

prince See also:

• REGENT (from Lat. regere, to rule)

Regent into a See also:

• DECLARATION (from Lat. declarare, to make fully clear, clams)

declaration that " something must be done for Hook." The prince was as See also:

• GOOD, JOHN MASON (1764-1827)

good as his word, and Hook, in spite of a See also:

• TOTAL

total See also:

• IGNORANCE (Lat. ignorantia, from ignorare, not to know); want of knowledge, a state of mind which in law has important consequences. A well-known legal maxim runs: ignorantia juris non excusat ("ignorance of the law does not excuse")

ignorance of accounts, was appointed accountant-See also:

• GENERAL
• GENERAL (Lat. generalis, of or relating to a genus, kind or class)

general and treasurer of the See also:

• MAURITIUS

Mauritius with a See also:

• SALARY

salary of £2000 a year . For five delightful years he was the life and soul of the See also:

• ISLAND (O.E. ieg =isle, +land')

island, but in 1817, a serious deficiency having been discovered in the See also:

• TREASURY

treasury accounts, he was arrested and brought to See also:

• ENGLAND
• ENGLAND, THE CHURCH OF

England on a criminal See also:

• CHARGE
• CHARGE (through the Fr. from the Late Lat. carricare, to load in a carrus or wagon; cf. " cargo ")

charge . A sum of about £See also:

• R2(rt-s2)

r2,000 had been abstracted by a See also:

• DEPUTY (through the Fr. from a Late Lat. use of deputare, to cut off, allot; putare having the original sense of to trim, prune)

deputy See also:

• OFFICIAL (Late Lat. QJicialis, for class. Lat. apparitor, from officium, office, duty)

official, and for this amount Hook was held responsible . During the tardy See also:

• SCRUTINY (Fr. scrutin, Late Lat. scrulinium, from scrutari, to search or examine thoroughly)

scrutiny of the See also:

• AUDIT

audit See also:

• BOARD (O. Eng. bord)

board he lived obscurely and maintained himself by See also:

• WRITING
• WRITING (the verbal noun of " to write," O. Eng. writan, to inscribe)

writing for magazines and See also:

• NEWSPAPERS

newspapers . In 182o he launched the newspaper John See also:

• BULL
• BULL, GEORGE (1634–1710)
• BULL, JOHN (c. 1562–1628)
• BULL, OLE BORNEMANN (18ro-188o)

Bull, the See also:

• CHAMPION (Fr. champion, Late Lat. campio from campus; a field or open space, i.e. one " who takes the field " or fights; cf. Ger. Kampf, battle, and Kampfer, fighter)

champion of high Toryism and the virulent detractor of See also:

• QUEEN
• QUEEN (O.E. cwen, wife, related to "quean," O.E. cwene, a hussy; cf. Gr. yvvi7: from root gan-, to produce; cf. genus, " kin," &c.)

Queen See also:

• CAROLINE
• CAROLINE (1683-1737)

Caroline . Witty, incisive See also:

• CRITICISM
• CRITICISM (from the Gr. KpiTrlS, a judge, Kpivew, to decide, to give an authoritative opinion)

criticism and pitiless invective secured it a large circulation, and from this source alone Hook derived, for the first year at least, an income of £2000 . He was, however, arrested for the second See also:

• TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
• TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
• TIME, STANDARD

time on See also:

• ACCOUNT
• ACCOUNT (through O. Fr. acont, Late Lat. comptum, cornputare, to calculate)

account of his See also:

• DEBT (Lat. debitum, a thing owed)

debt to the See also:

• STATE
• STATE, GREAT OFFICERS OF

state, which he made no effort to defray . In a sponging-See also:

• HOUSE
• HOUSE (O. Eng. hiss, a word common to Teutonic languages, cf. Dut. huis, Ger. Haus; in Gothic it is only found in gudhiss, a temple; it may be ultimately connected with the root of " hide," conceal)

house, where he was confined for two years, he wrote the nine volumes of stories afterwards collected under the See also:

• TITLE (0. Fr. title, mod. titre, from Lat. titulus)

title of Sayings and Doings (r826-1829) .

In the remaining twenty-three years of his life he poured forth no fewer than See also:

• THIRTY

thirty-eight volumes, besides numberless articles, squibs and sketches . His novels are not See also:

• WORKS

works of enduring See also:

• INTEREST

interest, but they are saved from mediocrity by frequent passages of racy narrative and vivid See also:

• PORTRAITURE

portraiture . The best are See also:

• MAXWELL
• MAXWELL, JAMES CLERK (1831–1879)

Maxwell (1830), Love and See also:

• PRIDE, THOMAS (d. 1658)

Pride (1833), the autobiographic See also:

• GILBERT
• GILBERT (KINGSMILL) ISLANDS
• GILBERT (or GYLBERDE), WILLIAM (1544-1603)
• GILBERT, ALFRED (1854– )
• GILBERT, ANN (1821-1904)
• GILBERT, GROVE KARL (1843– )
• GILBERT, J
• GILBERT, JOHN (1810-1889)
• GILBERT, MARIE DOLORES ELIZA ROSANNA [" LOLA MONTEZ "] (1818-1861)
• GILBERT, NICOLAS JOSEPH LAURENT (1751–1780)
• GILBERT, SIR HUMPHREY (c. 1539-1583)
• GILBERT, SIR JOSEPH HENRY (1817-1901)
• GILBERT, SIR WILLIAM SCHWENK (1836– )

Gilbert See also:

• GURNEY
• GURNEY, EDMUND (1847—1888)

Gurney (1836), See also:

• JACK

Jack See also:

• BRAG

Brag (1837), Gurney Married (1838), and Peregrine Bunce (1842) . Incessant See also:

• WORK

work had already begun to tell on his See also:

• HEALTH

health, when Hook returned to his old social habits. and a prolonged See also:

• ATTEMPT (Lat. adtemptare, attentare, to try)

attempt to combine See also:

• INDUSTRY (Lat. industria, from indu-, a form of the pre, position in, and either stare, to stand, or struere, to pile up)

industry and dissipation resulted in the See also:

• CONFESSION (Lat. confessio, from confiteor, acknowledge, confess)

confession that he was " done up in See also:

• PURSE (Late Lat. bursa, adapted from Gr. Gupta, hide, skin; possibly O. Eng. pusa, bag, has influenced the change from b to p)

purse, in mind and in See also:

• BODY

body too at last." He died on the 24th of See also:

• AUGUST (originally Sextilis)

August 1841 . His writings in great See also:

• PART

part are of a purely ephemeral See also:

• CHARACTER (Gr. xapareri7p, from xap&crew, to scratch)

character; and the greatest triumphs of the See also:

• IMPROVISATORE

improvisatore may be said to have been See also:

• WRIT (O. Eng. gewrit, writ, from writan, to write)

writ in See also:

• WINE (Lat. vinum, Gr. oivos)

wine . Putting aside, however, his claim to See also:

• LITERARY

literary greatness, Hook will be remembered as one of the most brilliant, genial and See also:

• ORIGINAL

original figures of Georgian times . See the Rev . R . H . D . See also:

• BARBARA, SAINT

Barbara's Life and Remains of Hook (3rd ed., 1877) ; and an See also:

• ARTICLE (from Lat. articulus, a joint)

article by J . G .

See also:

• LOCKHART, JOHN GIBSON (1794–1854)
• LOCKHART, QEORGE (1673-1731)
• LOCKHART, SIR WILLIAM STEPHEN ALEXANDER (1841–1900)

Lockhart in the Quarterly See also:

• REVIEW (Fr. revue, from revoir, to see again, Lat. re and videre)

Review May 1843) .