Hook, Walter Farquhar
(male)
03/13/1798 - 10/20/1875
English
Christ Church, Oxford
Dean of Chichester; traditional high-churchman, with some sympathy for, and some distrust of, the Oxford Movement; as vicar of Leeds worked to restore the position of the Church of England in new industrial towns; wrote Lives of the Archbishops of Canterbury. See Boase I: 1526, ODNB.