Hooker (RICHARD an English diine born)

Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)

RICHARD, an English diine; born in 1553. He became a Fellow vine; of Christ Church in 1577. In 1579 he was appointed deputy Professor of Hebrew; took orders in 1581, and was made preacher at Paul's Cross. In 1584 he became rector of Drayton Beauchamp and in 1585 Master of the Temple. In , 1595 he received the living of Bishopsbourne, in Kent, where he ended his days. His "Ecclesiastical Polity," written in defense of the Church of England, is remarkable for learning, extent of research and richness and purity of sissippi. In four years the Rockefeller style. He died in 1600. clergyman; born in Markfield, Leicester- States. shire, in 1586. He came to America in 1633. In 1636 removed from Newtown (Cambridge, Mass.) to Hartford, and founded that colony, becoming minister of the First Church there. He won eminence as a theological writer and a preacher, and has a permanent historical importance for his instrumentality in drawing up the first written constitution in America-that of the Hartford Colony. His chief work is "A Survey of the Summe of Church Discipline," in collaboration with John Cotton. He died in Hartford, Conn., July 7, 1647. HOOKER (WILLIAM) BRIAN, an American author; born in New York City in 1880. He graduated from Yale University in 1902. He served as assistant in English at Columbia University in 1903 and 1905, and as instructor of rhetoric at Yale from 1905 to 1909. He won several prizes for literary performances, and in 1911 wrote the libretto for the opera "Mona," which was awarded a $10,000 prize by the Metropolitan Opera Co. In 1914 he was awarded $10,000 by the City of Los Angeles for the libretto of an opera to be produced on the occasion of the city's centenary. He wrote "The Right Man" (1908); "The Professor's Mystery" (1910); "Poems" (1915).