WALTER

See also:

• FARQUHAR, GEORGE (1677-1707)

FARQUHAR

See also:

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

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