John Hooker (c. 1525 – 1601) was an early Elizabethan writer.
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Biography
Born in Exeter, Devon, England, received an excellent classical education. As a civil lawyer and a humanist, he also was a chamberlain of Exeter. He was an editor of Raphael Holinshed's Chronicles.
Life's Work
John Hooker wrote cautiously on mixed government and the revision of the estates. Published in 1572, he wrote Order and usage of the keeping of a parlement in England. He was very committed to the protestant, nearly puritan, lay culture which lent its character to Elizabethan England. He took much inspiration from the Modus tenendi parliamentum, a treatise from the 14th century. He also wrote a biography of Peter Carew.
Bibliography
- Dangerous Positions; Mixed Government, the Estates of the Realm, and the Making of the "Answer to the xix propositions", Michael Mendle, University of Alabama Press, 1985. pp 51,
External links
- Portrait of Hooker
- S. Mendyk, ‘Hooker , John (c.1527–1601)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, May 2005, accessed 4 June 2007
