James Hook

(1772 c.-1828)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Hook, James, 1772?-1828 NRA: Hook James (c 1772-1828) Dean of Worcester DNB: Hook, James (1772?-1828), dean of Worcester LBT ID: JaHook1828 VIAF ID: 44633875 LOC ID: n83122642	B/BAP: 1772 DIED: 1828-02-05
SOURCES: DNB; Prance, Companion to Charles Lamb (1983); Virtual International Authority File; thePeerage.com; LOC Name Authority File
The elder brother of Theodore Hook; he was educated at Westminster and St. Mary Hall, Oxford; he published novels and was dean of Worcester (1825).
REFERENCES TO James Hook: Robert Southey, “Memoir: Westminster School,” 16 March 1825 in The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Found 1: ¶ 2 Charles Cuthbert Southey, The Life and Correspondence of Robert Southey (London: 1849-1850) Early Life: XVII