subordinate, and that H. himself was only chargeable with gross neglect of duty, but though he was released the claims against him were not departed from.  He then became ed. of John Bull, a journal of high Tory and aristocratic proclivities, which he conducted with great ability; he also ed. the New Monthly Magazine, and wrote many novels, among which were Sayings and Doings (3 series), Gilbert Gurney, and Jack Brag.  Though making a large income, he was always in difficulties, and, after a long struggle with broken health and spirits, he d. at Fulham in 1841.

HOOK, WALTER FARQUHAR (1798-1875).—­Biographer, s. of James H., Dean of Worcester, b. at Worcester, and ed. at Winchester and Oxf.  Entering the Church, he held various benefices, and became Vicar of Leeds (where, largely owing to his exertions, 20 new churches and many schools were built), and afterwards Dean of Chichester.  Besides his labours as a churchman he was a voluminous author, his works including Church Dictionary (1842), Dictionary of Ecclesiastical Biography (1845-52), and Lives of the Archbishops of Canterbury (1860-75), on which he was still engaged at his death, and which he had brought down to Juxon, vol. xi.  His sermon Hear the Church (1838), in which he affirmed the Apostolical succession of the Anglican episcopate, attracted much attention.

HOOKER, RICHARD (1554?-1600).—­Theologian, b. near Exeter, of a family the original name of which was Vowell.  His ability and gentleness as a schoolboy recommended him to the notice of Bishop Jewel, who sent him to Corpus Christi Coll., Oxf., where he graduated and became a Fellow in 1577.  His proficiency in Hebrew led to his appointment in 1579 as Deputy Prof.  Two years later, 1581, he took orders, and soon thereafter advantage was taken of his simplicity to entrap him into an unsuitable marriage with a woman named Joan Churchman, whose mother had nursed him in an illness.  As might have been expected, the connection turned out unhappily, his wife being a scold, and, according to Anthony Wood, “a silly, clownish woman.”  His fate may, however, have been mitigated by the fact that his own temper was so sweet that he is said never to have been seen angry.  Some doubt, moreover, has been cast on some of the reported details of his domestic life.  In 1584 he received the living of Drayton-Beauchamp, in Bucks, and in the following year was appointed Master of the Temple.  Here he had for a colleague as evening lecturer Walter Travers, a man of mark among the Puritans.  Though both men were of the finest moral character, their views on ecclesiastical questions were widely different, and as neither was disposed to conceal his opinions, it came to be said that in the Temple “the pulpit spake pure Canterbury in the morning and Geneva in the afternoon.”  Things developed into an animated controversy, in which H. was considered to have triumphed, and the