Cecil Hook

Cecil Hook (1 December 1844 – 4 February 1938) was, from 1905 to 1915, the first Bishop of Kingston in the Church of England.

Hook was born on 1 December 1844 into a clerical family.^[1] He was educated at Radley School and Christ Church, Oxford.^[2] He was ordained in 1868 was a curate at St John's Redland, Bristol. He was then appointed Rector of All Saints' Chichester.^[3] He was appointed Rural Dean of Oswestry in 1891^[4] and then Leamington in 1896. He was one of three suffragans appointed in 1904 to assist the Bishop of Southwark, the others being Henry Horace Pereira and John Cox Leeke.^[5]

References

1. ↑ His father was the Very Reverend Walter Farquhar Hook, sometime Dean of Chichester - Who was Who 1897-1990, London, A & C Black, 1991, ISBN 0-7136-3457-X
2. ↑ "University Intelligence. Oxford, Feb. 27. (Official Appointments and Notices-Award of BA to Cecil Hook and John Townshend, Christ Church)", The Times, 28 February 1868, p7.
3. ↑ During which time he married Edith Turner of Rusholme
4. ↑ The Times, 10 June 1891, p7, "New Rural Dean (Diocese of St Asaph)"
5. ↑ The Times, 7 February 1938, p16. "Dr. Cecil Hook: First Bishop Of Kingston-On-Thames"