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"