Cecil Hook

Who was Cecil Hook?

Cecil Hook was, from 1905 to 915, the first Bishop of Kingston-upon-Thames in the Church of England.

Hook was born on 1 December 1844 into a clerical family. He was educated at Radley School and Christ Church, Oxford. He was ordained in 1868 was a curate at St John's Redland, Bristol. He was then appointed Rector of All Saints' Chichester. He was appointed Rural Dean of Oswestry in 1891 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.