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Authorised form of nameHook; Walter Farquhar (1798 - 1875)
Dates1798 - 1875
NationalityBritish
Place of birthConduit Street, London, England
Date of birth13 March 1798
Date of death20 October 1875
DatesAndPlacesBurial:
Mid Lavant churchyard, near Chichester, Sussex
ActivityEducation:
Christ Church College, Oxford. BA (1821), MA (1824), BD and DD (1837)
Career:
Ordained Deacon (1821); Curate, Whippingham, Isle of Wight; preached at the Chapel Royal; Vicar of Leeds (1837-1859); Dean of Chichester (1859-1875)
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election05/06/1862
RelationshipsSon of James Hook (FRS 1816) and his wife Anne, daughter of Sir Walter Farquhar MD; married (1829) Anna Delicia, daughter of Dr John Johnstone, physician, of Birmingham
SourceSources:
Bulloch's Roll; DNB
CodeNA5995
Archives associated with this Fellow
RefNoTitleDate
EC/1862/08Hook, Walter Farquhar: certificate of election to the Royal Society
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