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WALTER FARQUHAR HOOK (1798-1875)

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Originally appearing in Volume V13, Page 670 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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WALTER See also:FARQUHAR See also:HOOK (1798-1875)  , See also:English divine, See also:nephew of the witty See also:Theodore, was See also:born in See also:London on the 13th of See also:March 1798 . Educated at See also:Tiverton and See also:Winchester, he graduated at See also:Oxford (See also:Christ See also:Church) in 1821, and after holding an incumbency in See also:Coventry, 1829–1837, and in See also:Leeds, 1837-L859, was nominated See also:dean of See also:Chichester by See also:Lord See also:Derby . Ha received the degree of D.D. in 1837 . His friendship towards the Tractarians exposed him to considerable persecution, but his See also:simple manly See also:character and zealous devotion to parochialwork gained him the support of widely divergent classes . His stay in Leeds was marked by vigorous and far-reaching church See also:extension, and his views on See also:education were far in advance of his See also:time . Among his many writings are An Ecclesiastical See also:Biography, containing the Lives of See also:Ancient Fathers and See also:Modern Divines (8 vols., 1845–1852), A Church See also:Dictionary, The Means of Rendering more Effectual the Education of the See also:People, The See also:Cross of Christ (1873), The Church and its Ordinances (sermons, 4 vols., 1876), and Lives of the Archbishops of Canter-See also:bury (12 vols., 186o–1876) . He died on the loth of See also:October 1875 . See See also:Life and Letters of Dean See also:Hook, by his son-in-See also:law, W . R . W . See also:Stephens (2 vols., 1878) .

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