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style="font-size:85%; font-weight:normal;"><a href="/wiki/The_Right_Reverend" title="The Right Reverend">The Right Reverend</a></span></div><br /><div style="display:inline" class="fn">George Hooper</div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-subheader role"><a href="/wiki/Bishop_of_Bath_and_Wells" title="Bishop of Bath and Wells">Bishop of Bath and Wells</a></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image"><span class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Frameless"><a href="/wiki/File:Bp_George_Hooper.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d1/Bp_George_Hooper.jpg/220px-Bp_George_Hooper.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="306" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d1/Bp_George_Hooper.jpg/330px-Bp_George_Hooper.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d1/Bp_George_Hooper.jpg/440px-Bp_George_Hooper.jpg 2x" data-file-width="576" data-file-height="800" /></a></span><div class="infobox-caption">Hooper by <a href="/wiki/Thomas_Hill_(painter,_1661%E2%80%931734)" title="Thomas Hill (painter, 1661–1734)">Thomas Hill</a></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">See</th><td class="infobox-data">St Asaph<br />Bath and Wells</td></tr><tr class="note"><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Installed</th><td class="infobox-data">1704</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Predecessor</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Richard_Kidder" title="Richard Kidder">Richard Kidder</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Successor</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/John_Wynne_(bishop)" title="John Wynne (bishop)">John Wynne</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Other post(s)</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Bishop_of_St_Asaph" title="Bishop of St Asaph">Bishop of St Asaph</a> 1703–1704</td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122; background-color:#DDDDDD;">Personal details</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Born</th><td class="infobox-data"><span style="display:none">(<span class="bday">1640-11-18</span>)</span>18 November 1640<br /><div style="display:inline" class="birthplace"><a href="/wiki/Grimley,_Worcestershire" title="Grimley, Worcestershire">Grimley</a>, Worcestershire, England</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Died</th><td class="infobox-data">6 September 1727<span style="display:none">(1727-09-06)</span> (aged 86)<br />Barkley, <a href="/wiki/Frome" title="Frome">Frome</a>, Somerset, England</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Buried</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Wells_Cathedral" title="Wells Cathedral">Wells Cathedral</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Nationality</th><td class="infobox-data category">English</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Denomination</th><td class="infobox-data category"><a href="/wiki/Church_of_England" title="Church of England">Church of England</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Parents</th><td class="infobox-data">George Hooper, Joan Giles</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Spouse</th><td class="infobox-data">Abigail Guildford</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Alma_mater" title="Alma mater">Alma mater</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Christ_Church,_Oxford" title="Christ Church, Oxford">Christ Church, Oxford</a>, BA 1660, MA 1663, BD 1673, and DD 1677</td></tr></tbody></table> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"><table class="infobox biography vcard"><tbody><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-above" style="font-size:125%;"><div class="fn">George Hooper</div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><div style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.2em; padding: .1em 0;">Congregations served</div></th><td class="infobox-data">rector of Havant and of East Woodhay, Hampshire, 1672<br />rector of St Mary, Lambeth, 1675<br />precentor of Exeter, 1677<br />dean of Canterbury, 1691</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><div style="display: inline-block; line-height: 1.2em; padding: .1em 0;">Offices held</div></th><td class="infobox-data">chaplain to Dr Morley, bishop of Winchester, 1673<br />, chaplain to Dr Sheldon, archbishop of Canterbury, 1675<br />chaplain to Prince of Orange and Princess Mary, 1677<br />chaplain to Charles II, 1680</td></tr><tr style="display:none"><td colspan="2"> </td></tr></tbody></table> <figure typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Hooper_Arms_OfFullabrook_Braunton_Devon.PNG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e3/Hooper_Arms_OfFullabrook_Braunton_Devon.PNG/200px-Hooper_Arms_OfFullabrook_Braunton_Devon.PNG" decoding="async" width="200" height="230" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e3/Hooper_Arms_OfFullabrook_Braunton_Devon.PNG/300px-Hooper_Arms_OfFullabrook_Braunton_Devon.PNG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e3/Hooper_Arms_OfFullabrook_Braunton_Devon.PNG/400px-Hooper_Arms_OfFullabrook_Braunton_Devon.PNG 2x" data-file-width="811" data-file-height="933" /></a><figcaption>Arms of Hooper: <i>Gyronny of eight or and ermine, over all a castle triple-towered sable</i><sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></figcaption></figure> <p><b>George Hooper</b> (18 November 1640 – 6 September 1727) was a learned and influential English <a href="/wiki/High_church" title="High church">High church</a> cleric of the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries. He served as bishop of the Welsh diocese, St Asaph, and later for the diocese of Bath and Wells, as well as chaplain to members of the royal family. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Early_life">Early life</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=George_Hooper_(bishop)&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Early life"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>George Hooper was born at <a href="/wiki/Grimley,_Worcestershire" title="Grimley, Worcestershire">Grimley</a> in Worcestershire, 18 November 1640. His father, also George Hooper, appears to have been a gentleman of independent means; his mother, Joan Hooper, was daughter of Edmund Giles, gentleman, of White Ladies Aston, Worcestershire. From Grimley his parents moved to Westminster. He was elected a scholar of <a href="/wiki/St_Paul%27s_School_(London)" class="mw-redirect" title="St Paul's School (London)">St Paul's School</a> while <a href="/w/index.php?title=John_Langley_(schoolmaster)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="John Langley (schoolmaster) (page does not exist)">John Langley</a> was high-master (1640–1657),<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> but then was transferred to <a href="/wiki/Westminster_School" title="Westminster School">Westminster School</a> under <a href="/wiki/Richard_Busby" title="Richard Busby">Richard Busby</a>, who thought him very promising, and obtained a king's scholarship there.<sup id="cite_ref-DNB_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-DNB-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Hooper as elected to a Westminster studentship at <a href="/wiki/Christ_Church,_Oxford" title="Christ Church, Oxford">Christ Church, Oxford</a>, in 1657: he graduated BA 16 January 1660, MA 1 December 1663, <a href="/wiki/Bachelor_of_Divinity" title="Bachelor of Divinity">BD</a> 9 July 1673, and <a href="/wiki/Doctor_of_Divinity" title="Doctor of Divinity">DD</a> 3 July 1677. He remained at Oxford as college tutor until 1672, and made the acquaintance of <a href="/wiki/Thomas_Ken" title="Thomas Ken">Thomas Ken</a>. Under Dr. <a href="/wiki/Edward_Pococke" title="Edward Pococke">Edward Pococke</a> he became a good Hebrew and Syriac scholar, but also learned enough Arabic to apply it to Old Testament exegesis.<sup id="cite_ref-DNB_3-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-DNB-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Clergyman">Clergyman</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=George_Hooper_(bishop)&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Clergyman"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>In 1673 <a href="/wiki/George_Morley_(bishop)" title="George Morley (bishop)">Bishop Morley</a> persuaded Hooper to come and reside with him as his chaplain at <a href="/wiki/Winchester_Cathedral" title="Winchester Cathedral">Winchester</a>. Ken was the bishop's chaplain at the same time. In the same year Morley presented Hooper to the living of <a href="/wiki/Havant" title="Havant">Havant</a>, where he seems to have gone into residence at once, and contracted an <a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/ague" class="extiw" title="wikt:ague">ague</a> from the dampness of the place. Ken, then incumbent at <a href="/wiki/East_Woodhay" title="East Woodhay">East Woodhay</a> in Hampshire, then resigned the living to make way for his friend. Hooper was instituted at Woodhay in 1672. <a href="/wiki/Isaac_Milles" title="Isaac Milles">Isaac Milles</a>, the exemplary parish priest of the neighbouring village of <a href="/w/index.php?title=High_Clere&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="High Clere (page does not exist)">High Clere</a>, frequently mentioned Hooper as "the one of all clergymen whom he had ever known in whom the three characters of perfect gentleman, thorough scholar, and venerable divine met in the most complete accordance."<sup id="cite_ref-DNB_3-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-DNB-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><a href="/wiki/Gilbert_Sheldon" title="Gilbert Sheldon">Archbishop Sheldon</a> induced Morley to permit Hooper to move to <a href="/wiki/Lambeth_Palace" title="Lambeth Palace">Lambeth Palace</a> to become his own chaplain in 1673. In 1675 he was collated by Sheldon to the rectory of Lambeth, and soon afterwards to the <a href="/wiki/Exeter_Cathedral" title="Exeter Cathedral">precentorship of Exeter</a>. Morley sent for Hooper to attend him in his last sickness in 1684.<sup id="cite_ref-DNB_3-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-DNB-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Royal_chaplain">Royal chaplain</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=George_Hooper_(bishop)&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Royal chaplain"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>On the marriage of the <a href="/wiki/Mary_II_of_England" class="mw-redirect" title="Mary II of England">Princess Mary</a> with the <a href="/wiki/William_III_of_England" title="William III of England">Prince of Orange</a>, Hooper went with her to Holland in 1677 as her <a href="/wiki/Almoner" title="Almoner">almoner</a> at the Hague. Here he had a difficult post to fill, since the Prince's views inclined to the Dutch Presbyterians, and the Princess's former chaplain, Dr. <a href="/wiki/William_Lloyd_(bishop_of_Worcester)" title="William Lloyd (bishop of Worcester)">William Lloyd</a>, had allowed her to give up the Anglican services. Hooper persuaded her to read in <a href="/wiki/Richard_Hooker" title="Richard Hooker">Hooker</a> and <a href="/wiki/Eusebius_of_Caesarea" class="mw-redirect" title="Eusebius of Caesarea">Eusebius</a>, and argued with the Prince, to the point of William saying "Well, Dr. Hooper, you will never be a bishop." His daughter, Mrs. Prowse, however, reported that "in this station he was directed to regulate the Performance of Divine Chappel in Her Highness's Chappel, according to the usage of the Church of England, which he did in so prudent and decent a manner as to give no offence."<sup id="cite_ref-DNB_3-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-DNB-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>After about a year at <a href="/wiki/The_Hague" title="The Hague">The Hague</a>, Hooper returned home to marry, then afterwards he returned to the Hague for eight months, when he was succeeded by Ken. In 1680 he was made chaplain to <a href="/wiki/Charles_II_of_England" title="Charles II of England">Charles II</a>, and in the same year the <a href="/wiki/Regius_Professor_of_Divinity" title="Regius Professor of Divinity">Regius Professor of Divinity</a> at Oxford, vacant by the death of <a href="/wiki/Richard_Allestree" title="Richard Allestree">Richard Allestree</a>, was offered to him: he declined it. In 1685 he was asked by <a href="/wiki/James_II_of_England" title="James II of England">James II</a> to attend the <a href="/wiki/James_Scott,_1st_Duke_of_Monmouth" title="James Scott, 1st Duke of Monmouth">Duke of Monmouth</a> the evening before his execution, and on the following morning was on the scaffold with the Bishops of <a href="/wiki/Francis_Turner_(bishop)" title="Francis Turner (bishop)">Ely</a> and <a href="/wiki/Thomas_Ken" title="Thomas Ken">Bath and Wells</a> and <a href="/wiki/Thomas_Tenison" title="Thomas Tenison">Dr. Tenison</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-DNB_3-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-DNB-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>At the <a href="/wiki/Williamite_Revolution" class="mw-redirect" title="Williamite Revolution">Williamite Revolution</a> he was one of the few decidedly High churchmen who took the oaths. In 1691, on the promotion of <a href="/wiki/John_Sharp,_Archbishop_of_York" class="mw-redirect" title="John Sharp, Archbishop of York">Dean Sharp</a> to the archbishopric of York, Queen Mary offered him the <a href="/wiki/Dean_of_Canterbury" title="Dean of Canterbury">deanery of Canterbury</a>, taking advantage of the king's absence to promote her favourite: William, on his return, expressed displeasure at her conduct. In 1698 the <a href="/wiki/Anne,_Queen_of_Great_Britain" title="Anne, Queen of Great Britain">Princess Anne</a> and her husband <a href="/wiki/Prince_George_of_Denmark" title="Prince George of Denmark">Prince George of Denmark</a> wanted Hooper as tutor to the young <a href="/wiki/Prince_William,_Duke_of_Gloucester" title="Prince William, Duke of Gloucester">Duke of Gloucester</a>, but the king imposed <a href="/wiki/Gilbert_Burnet" title="Gilbert Burnet">Gilbert Burnet</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-DNB_3-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-DNB-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In 1701 Hooper was elected prolocutor to the lower house of the <a href="/wiki/Convocation_of_the_English_Clergy" class="mw-redirect" title="Convocation of the English Clergy">convocation of Canterbury</a>, and defended its privileges of the lower house. About the same time he declined an offer of the <a href="/wiki/Archbishop_of_Dublin_(Church_of_Ireland)" title="Archbishop of Dublin (Church of Ireland)">primacy of Ireland</a> made by the <a href="/wiki/Laurence_Hyde,_1st_Earl_of_Rochester" title="Laurence Hyde, 1st Earl of Rochester">Earl of Rochester</a>, as lord-lieutenant.<sup id="cite_ref-DNB_3-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-DNB-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Bishop">Bishop</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=George_Hooper_(bishop)&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Bishop"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Towards the close of 1702 he accepted the <a href="/wiki/Bishop_of_St_Asaph" title="Bishop of St Asaph">bishopric of St. Asaph</a>. In 1703 the see of <a href="/wiki/Bishop_of_Bath_and_Wells" title="Bishop of Bath and Wells">Bath and Wells</a> fell vacant through the death of <a href="/wiki/Richard_Kidder" title="Richard Kidder">Richard Kidder</a>. Queen Anne offered Hooper, but he felt that his friend Thomas Ken, who had been deprived of the see as a <a href="/wiki/Nonjuring_schism" title="Nonjuring schism">non-juror</a> in 1690, was the proper bishop of Bath and Wells. After negotiations, Hooper to filled the vacancy. Ken ceased signing himself "T. Bath and Wells", and dedicated his <i>Hymnarium</i> to Hooper. The queen ordered a pension of £200 a year to be paid to Ken.<sup id="cite_ref-DNB_3-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-DNB-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Hooper was happy in the see of Bath and Wells, and refused translation, and a seat on the <a href="/wiki/Her_Majesty%27s_Most_Honourable_Privy_Council" class="mw-redirect" title="Her Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council">privy council</a>. He was a frequent preacher before royalty. In the "church in danger" debate in the House of Lords in 1705 he maintained that the danger was not, as some supposed, imaginary; in 1706 he spoke against the <a href="/wiki/Union_between_England_and_Scotland" class="mw-redirect" title="Union between England and Scotland">union between England and Scotland</a>, and advocated in the cause of the <a href="/wiki/Scottish_Episcopal_church" class="mw-redirect" title="Scottish Episcopal church">Scottish Episcopal church</a>. In 1709–10 he defended <a href="/wiki/Henry_Sacheverell" title="Henry Sacheverell">Henry Sacheverell</a>, and entered his protest against the vote in favour of his impeachment.<sup id="cite_ref-DNB_3-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-DNB-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Burnet, who had personal differences with Hooper in Convocation, describes him in 1701 in his <i>History of His Own Time</i> as "reserved, crafty, and ambitious". Other detractors of Hooper were Jacobites and nonjurors who were angry with Ken for resigning his canonical claims to Bath and Wells. <a href="/wiki/Francis_Atterbury" title="Francis Atterbury">Francis Atterbury</a> also calle him ambitious; <a href="/wiki/William_Whiston" title="William Whiston">William Whiston</a>, whom Hooper had rejected from holy communion, expressed a high opinion of his character.<sup id="cite_ref-DNB_3-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-DNB-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Family_and_later_life">Family and later life</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=George_Hooper_(bishop)&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Family and later life"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Hooper married in 1678, a lady, Abigail Guildford, to whom he had been engaged before he left England for the Hague. He died, aged nearly eighty-seven, on 6 September 1727, at Barkley, near Frome, a secluded spot in his diocese to which he was wont to retire at intervals to recruit his strength. He survived his wife one year; and out of a family of nine children only one was living at the time of his death, the wife of John Prowse of Axbridge, who was author of an unpublished life of her father. Hooper was buried in <a href="/wiki/Wells_Cathedral" title="Wells Cathedral">Wells Cathedral</a>, and a marble monument was erected to his memory<sup id="cite_ref-DNB_3-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-DNB-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> created by <a href="/w/index.php?title=Samuel_Tuffnell&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Samuel Tuffnell (page does not exist)">Samuel Tuffnell</a> (d.1763).<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Works">Works</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=George_Hooper_(bishop)&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Works"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Hooper's writing, with the exception of his sermons, were published anonymously.<sup id="cite_ref-DNB_3-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-DNB-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <ul><li><i>The Church of England free from the imputation of Popery.</i> c. 1682.</li></ul> <dl><dd>This was a discourse written and published at the request of Henry Compton, bishop of London, about 1682. Another edition was printed in <i>The London Cases</i> in 1694. It was also reprinted by the author at his own expense in 1716, and given to his clergy at his triennial visitation the year following.</dd></dl> <ul><li><i>A Fair and Methodical Discussion of the First and great Controversy between the Church of England and the Church of Rome concerning the Infallible Guide,</i> 1689.</li> <li><i>A Discourse concerning Lent, in 2 Parts,</i> 1695.</li></ul> <dl><dd>This is a long, learned inquiry into the meaning and origin of the Lenten fast.</dd></dl> <ul><li><i>A Calculation of the Credibility of Human Testimony,</i> first printed in the <i><a href="/wiki/Philosophical_Transactions" class="mw-redirect" title="Philosophical Transactions">Philosophical Transactions</a></i>, October 1699</li></ul> <dl><dd>This is the only printed work of Hooper that is mathematical.</dd></dl> <ul><li><i>The Narrative Vindicated,</i></li></ul> <dl><dd>i.e. the <i>Narrative of the Proceedings of the Lower House of Convocation,</i> 1700-1, by <a href="/wiki/Henry_Aldrich" title="Henry Aldrich">Henry Aldrich</a>: This was answered by <a href="/wiki/White_Kennett" title="White Kennett">White Kennett</a>.</dd></dl> <ul><li><i>De Valentiniarnorum Hæresi, quibus illius origo ex Ægyptiacâ Theologiâ deducitur,</i> 1711. (In Latin.)</li></ul> <dl><dd>This was dedicated to <a href="/wiki/John_Ernest_Grabe" title="John Ernest Grabe">John Ernest Grabe</a>. There was added, in the edition of 1757, <i>Emendationes et Observationes ad Tertulliani adverseus Valentinianos Tractatum.</i> Both were intended to accompany a new edition of <a href="/wiki/Tertullian" title="Tertullian">Tertullian</a>, <i>Adversus Valentinianos</i> which Hooper was preparing for press. Hearing that a new edition of Tertullian's works was being prepared abroad, he sent his notes to the editors, but they were lost.</dd></dl> <ul><li><i>Eight Sermons preached on several occasions from 1681 to 1713.</i></li> <li><i>An Inquiry into the State of Antient Weights and Measure, the Attick, the Roman and the Jewish,</i> 1721.</li> <li><i>De Benedictione Patriarchæ Jacobi, Gen. xlix. Conjecturæ,</i> 1728.</li></ul> <dl><dd>This was published by Hooper's own directions on his deathbed, at Oxford, by <a href="/wiki/Thomas_Hunt_(Arabic_scholar)" title="Thomas Hunt (Arabic scholar)">Thomas Hunt</a>, who prepared in 1757 an edition in 2 vols. of most of Hooper's works. Another edition was published at Oxford (1855).</dd></dl> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=George_Hooper_(bishop)&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist"> <div class="mw-references-wrap"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-1">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">These are the arms given in Burke's General Armory, 1884, p.505, for "Hooper". The arms <i>Gyronny of eight or and ermine, over all a castle triple-towered sable</i> appear on a funeral hatchment in Rodden Church, Somerset, relating to his daughter Abigail Hooper (1684–1763), whose husband was John Prowse of Axbridge. Her monument survives in Axbridge Church. (Summers, Peter & Titterton, John, (eds.), Hatchments in Britain, Vol.7: Cornwall, Devon, Dorset, Gloucestershire, Hampshire, Isle of Wight and Somerset; Phillimore Press, Chichester, Sussex, 1988, p.168); Also arms of <a href="/wiki/Nicholas_Hooper_(1654%E2%80%931731)" title="Nicholas Hooper (1654–1731)">Nicholas Hooper (1654–1731)</a>, MP for Barnstaple, Devon</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-2">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Gardiner, <i>St. Paul's School Reg.</i>, p.47</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-DNB-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-DNB_3-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-DNB_3-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-DNB_3-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-DNB_3-3"><sup><i><b>d</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-DNB_3-4"><sup><i><b>e</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-DNB_3-5"><sup><i><b>f</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-DNB_3-6"><sup><i><b>g</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-DNB_3-7"><sup><i><b>h</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-DNB_3-8"><sup><i><b>i</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-DNB_3-9"><sup><i><b>j</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-DNB_3-10"><sup><i><b>k</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-DNB_3-11"><sup><i><b>l</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-DNB_3-12"><sup><i><b>m</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription.id-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg")right 0.1em center/12px no-repeat}body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-free a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background-size:contain;padding:0 1em 0 0}.mw-parser-output .cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><cite id="CITEREFJohn_Henry_Overton1891" class="citation encyclopaedia cs1"><a href="/wiki/John_Henry_Overton" title="John Henry Overton">John Henry Overton</a> (1891). <span class="cs1-ws-icon" title="s:Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Hooper, George"><a class="external text" href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Dictionary_of_National_Biography,_1885-1900/Hooper,_George">"Hooper, George" </a></span>. In <a href="/wiki/Sidney_Lee" title="Sidney Lee">Lee, Sidney</a> (ed.). <i><a href="/wiki/Dictionary_of_National_Biography" title="Dictionary of National Biography">Dictionary of National Biography</a></i>. Vol. 27. London: Smith, Elder & Co.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=bookitem&rft.atitle=Hooper%2C+George&rft.btitle=Dictionary+of+National+Biography&rft.place=London&rft.pub=Smith%2C+Elder+%26+Co&rft.date=1891&rft.au=John+Henry+Overton&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AGeorge+Hooper+%28bishop%29" class="Z3988"></span> </span> </li> <li id="cite_note-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-4">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Prowse, <i>MS Life of Bishop Hooper</i> (nd)</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-5"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-5">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Dictionary of British Sculptors 1660-1851 by Rupert Gunnis p.401</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-6"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-6">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><i>The Works of the Right Rev. George Hooper, Bishop of Bath and Wells</i>, new edition, in 2 vols., Oxford, 1855 (reprint of Hunt's edition of 1757)<br /><i>Life of Bishop Ken</i>, by Plumptre, dean of Wells, 1888<br />Burnet's <i>History of His Own Time</i><br />Hearne's Collections, ed. Doble, Oxf. Hist. Soc. i. 217, ii. 362, iii. 27, 174, 177 <br />Whiston's Memoirs; Life of Isaac Milles<br />Strickland's <i>Lives of the Seven Bishops.</i>]</span> </li> </ol></div></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Attribution">Attribution</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=George_Hooper_(bishop)&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: Attribution"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><span class="noviewer" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg/12px-Wikisource-logo.svg.png" decoding="async" width="12" height="13" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg/18px-Wikisource-logo.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg/24px-Wikisource-logo.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="410" data-file-height="430" /></span></span> This article incorporates text from a publication now in the <a href="/wiki/Public_domain" title="Public domain">public domain</a>: <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFLee1891" class="citation encyclopaedia cs1"><a href="/wiki/Sidney_Lee" title="Sidney Lee">Lee, Sidney</a>, ed. (1891). "<a href="https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Dictionary_of_National_Biography,_1885-1900/Hooper,_George" class="extiw" title="s:Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900/Hooper, George">Hooper, George</a>". <i><a href="/wiki/Dictionary_of_National_Biography" title="Dictionary of National Biography">Dictionary of National Biography</a></i>. Vol. 27. 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class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Llywelyn_de_Bromfield&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Llywelyn de Bromfield (page does not exist)">Llywelyn de Bromfield</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dafydd_ap_Bleddyn" title="Dafydd ap Bleddyn">Dafydd ap Bleddyn</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=John_Trevor_(died_1537)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="John Trevor (died 1537) (page does not exist)">John Trevor</a> <i>(I)</i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Llywelyn_ap_Madog" title="Llywelyn ap Madog">Llywelyn ap Madog</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_Spridlington" title="William Spridlington">William Spridlington</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Lawrence_Child&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Lawrence Child (page does not exist)">Lawrence Child</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Alexander_Bache_(bishop)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Alexander Bache (bishop) (page does not exist)">Alexander Bache</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Trevor_(died_1410)" title="John Trevor (died 1410)">John Trevor</a> <i>(II)</i></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Robert_Lancaster_(bishop)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Robert Lancaster (bishop) (page does not exist)">Robert Lancaster</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Low_(bishop)" title="John Low (bishop)">John Low</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Reginald_Pecock" title="Reginald Pecock">Reginald Pecock</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Bird_(bishop)" title="Thomas Bird (bishop)">Thomas Bird</a> (alias Knight)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Richard_Redman_(bishop)" title="Richard Redman (bishop)">Richard Redman</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Michael_Deacon_(bishop)" title="Michael Deacon (bishop)">Michael Deacon</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Early modern</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Dafydd_ab_Ieuan_ab_Iorwerth" title="Dafydd ab Ieuan ab Iorwerth">Dafydd ab Ieuan ab Iorwerth</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dafydd_ab_Owain_(bishop)" title="Dafydd ab Owain (bishop)">Dafydd ab Owain</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Edmund_Birkhead" title="Edmund Birkhead">Edmund Birkhead</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Henry_Standish" title="Henry Standish">Henry Standish</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_Barlow_(bishop_of_Chichester)" title="William Barlow (bishop of Chichester)">William Barlow</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Robert_Parfew" title="Robert Parfew">Robert Parfew</a>/Warton</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Goldwell" title="Thomas Goldwell">Thomas Goldwell</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Richard_Davies_(bishop)" title="Richard Davies (bishop)">Richard Davies</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Davies_(bishop)" title="Thomas Davies (bishop)">Thomas Davies</a></li> <li><a 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title="William Lloyd (bishop of Worcester)">William Lloyd</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Edward_Jones_(bishop)" title="Edward Jones (bishop)">Edward Jones</a></li> <li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">George Hooper</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_Beveridge_(bishop)" title="William Beveridge (bishop)">William Beveridge</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_Fleetwood" title="William Fleetwood">William Fleetwood</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Wynne_(bishop)" title="John Wynne (bishop)">John Wynne</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Francis_Hare_(bishop)" title="Francis Hare (bishop)">Francis Hare</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Tanner_(bishop)" title="Thomas Tanner (bishop)">Thomas Tanner</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Isaac_Maddox" title="Isaac Maddox">Isaac Maddox</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Thomas_(bishop_of_Salisbury)" title="John Thomas (bishop of Salisbury)">John Thomas</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Samuel_Lisle" title="Samuel Lisle">Samuel Lisle</a></li> <li>The Hon <a href="/wiki/Robert_Hay_Drummond" title="Robert Hay Drummond">Robert Hay Drummond</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Richard_Newcome" title="Richard Newcome">Richard Newcome</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jonathan_Shipley" title="Jonathan Shipley">Jonathan Shipley</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Samuel_Hallifax" title="Samuel Hallifax">Samuel Hallifax</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lewis_Bagot" title="Lewis Bagot">Lewis Bagot</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Samuel_Horsley" title="Samuel Horsley">Samuel Horsley</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_Cleaver" title="William Cleaver">William Cleaver</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Luxmoore" title="John Luxmoore">John Luxmoore</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_Carey_(bishop)" title="William Carey (bishop)">William Carey</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Vowler_Short" title="Thomas Vowler Short">Thomas Vowler Short</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Joshua_Hughes_(bishop)" title="Joshua Hughes (bishop)">Joshua Hughes</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/A._G._Edwards_(bishop)" title="A. G. Edwards (bishop)">A. G. Edwards</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Church_in_Wales" title="Church in Wales">Church in Wales</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li>A. G. Edwards (Archbishop of Wales)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_Havard" title="William Havard">William Havard</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/David_Bartlett_(bishop)" title="David Bartlett (bishop)">David Bartlett</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Harold_Charles" title="Harold Charles">Harold Charles</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alwyn_Rice_Jones" title="Alwyn Rice Jones">Alwyn Rice Jones</a> (Archbishop of Wales)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Davies_(bishop_of_St_Asaph)" title="John Davies (bishop of St Asaph)">John Davies</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gregory_Cameron" title="Gregory Cameron">Gregory Cameron</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table></div> <div class="navbox-styles"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236075235"></div><div role="navigation" class="navbox" aria-labelledby="Bishops_of_Bath_and_Wells" style="padding:3px"><table class="nowraplinks mw-collapsible 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href="/wiki/Byrhthelm_(Bishop_of_Wells)" class="mw-redirect" title="Byrhthelm (Bishop of Wells)">Byrhthelm</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cyneweard_of_Glastonbury" title="Cyneweard of Glastonbury">Cyneweard of Glastonbury</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sigar_of_Wells" title="Sigar of Wells">Sigar</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/%C3%86lfwine_of_Wells" title="Ælfwine of Wells">Ælfwine</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lyfing_(Archbishop_of_Canterbury)" class="mw-redirect" title="Lyfing (Archbishop of Canterbury)">Lyfing</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/%C3%86thelwine_of_Wells" title="Æthelwine of Wells">Aethelwine</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Brihtwine" title="Brihtwine">Brihtwine</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/%C3%86thelwine_of_Wells" title="Æthelwine of Wells">Aethelwine</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Brihtwine" title="Brihtwine">Brihtwine</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Merewith" title="Merewith">Merewith</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dudoc" class="mw-redirect" title="Dudoc">Dudoc</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gisa_(Bishop_of_Wells)" class="mw-redirect" title="Gisa (Bishop of Wells)">Gisa</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_of_Tours" title="John of Tours">John of Tours</a> <i>(became Bishop of Bath)</i></li> <li><i>see removed to Bath</i></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Bath</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li>John of Tours <i>(previously Bishop of Wells)</i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Godfrey_of_Bath" title="Godfrey of Bath">Godfrey</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Robert_of_Bath" title="Robert of Bath">Robert</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Reginald_fitz_Jocelin" class="mw-redirect" title="Reginald fitz Jocelin">Reginald fitz Jocelin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Savaric_FitzGeldewin" title="Savaric FitzGeldewin">Savaric FitzGeldewin</a> <i>(became Bishop of Bath and Glastonbury)</i></li> <li><i>see </i>de jure<i> removed to Glastonbury</i></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Bath & Glastonbury</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li>Savaric FitzGeldewin <i>(previously Bishop of Bath)</i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jocelin_of_Wells" title="Jocelin of Wells">Jocelin of Wells</a> <i>(became Bishop of Bath)</i></li> <li><i>Glastonbury claim abandoned</i></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Bath</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li>Jocelin of Wells <i>(previously Bishop of Bath and Glastonbury)</i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Roger_of_Salisbury_(Bishop_of_Bath_and_Wells)" class="mw-redirect" title="Roger of Salisbury (Bishop of Bath and Wells)">Roger of Salisbury</a> <i>(became Bishop of Bath and Wells)</i></li> <li><i>see became <a href="/wiki/Bishop_of_Bath_and_Wells" title="Bishop of Bath and Wells">Bath and Wells</a></i></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Medieval</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><i>see renamed from <a href="/wiki/Bishop_of_Bath_and_Wells" title="Bishop of Bath and Wells">Bath</a></i></li> <li>Roger of Salisbury <i>(previously Bishop of Bath)</i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_of_Bitton" title="William of Bitton">William of Bitton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Walter_Giffard" title="Walter Giffard">Walter Giffard</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_of_Bitton_(nephew)" title="William of Bitton (nephew)">William of Bitton (nephew)</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Robert_Burnell" title="Robert Burnell">Robert Burnell</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_of_March" title="William of March">William of March</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Walter_Haselshaw" title="Walter Haselshaw">Walter Haselshaw</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Droxford" title="John Droxford">John Droxford</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ralph_of_Shrewsbury" title="Ralph of Shrewsbury">Ralph of Shrewsbury</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Barnet" title="John Barnet">John Barnet</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Harewell" title="John Harewell">John Harewell</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Walter_Skirlaw" title="Walter Skirlaw">Walter Skirlaw</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ralph_Ergham" title="Ralph Ergham">Ralph Ergham</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Richard_Clifford" title="Richard Clifford">Richard Clifford</a></i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Henry_Bowet" title="Henry Bowet">Henry Bowet</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nicholas_Bubwith" title="Nicholas Bubwith">Nicholas Bubwith</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Stafford_(bishop)" title="John Stafford (bishop)">John Stafford</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Beckington" title="Thomas Beckington">Thomas Beckington</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Robert_Stillington" title="Robert Stillington">Robert Stillington</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Richard_Foxe" title="Richard Foxe">Richard Foxe</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Oliver_King" title="Oliver King">Oliver King</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Early modern</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Adriano_Castellesi" title="Adriano Castellesi">Adriano Castellesi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Wolsey" title="Thomas Wolsey">Thomas Wolsey</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Clerk_(bishop)" title="John Clerk (bishop)">John Clerk</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_Knight_(bishop)" title="William Knight (bishop)">William Knight</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_Barlow_(bishop_of_Chichester)" title="William Barlow (bishop of Chichester)">William Barlow</a></li> <li><a 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<li><a href="/wiki/Robert_Creighton" title="Robert Creighton">Robert Creighton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Peter_Mews" title="Peter Mews">Peter Mews</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Ken" title="Thomas Ken">Thomas Ken</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Richard_Kidder" title="Richard Kidder">Richard Kidder</a></li> <li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">George Hooper</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Wynne_(bishop)" title="John Wynne (bishop)">John Wynne</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Edward_Willes_(bishop)" title="Edward Willes (bishop)">Edward Willes</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Charles_Moss_(bishop_of_Bath_and_Wells)" title="Charles Moss (bishop of Bath and Wells)">Charles Moss</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Late modern</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Richard_Beadon" title="Richard Beadon">Richard Beadon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/George_Henry_Law" title="George Henry Law">George Henry Law</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Richard_Bagot_(bishop)" title="Richard Bagot (bishop)">Richard Bagot</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Robert_Eden,_3rd_Baron_Auckland" title="Robert Eden, 3rd Baron Auckland">Robert Eden</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lord_Arthur_Hervey" title="Lord Arthur Hervey">Lord Arthur Hervey</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/George_Kennion" title="George Kennion">George Kennion</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Basil_Wynne_Willson" title="Basil Wynne Willson">Basil Wynne Willson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Francis_Underhill" title="Francis Underhill">Francis Underhill</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_Wand" title="William Wand">William Wand</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Harold_Bradfield" title="Harold Bradfield">Harold Bradfield</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Edward_Henderson_(bishop)" title="Edward Henderson (bishop)">Edward Henderson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Bickersteth" title="John Bickersteth">John Bickersteth</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/George_Carey" title="George Carey">George Carey</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jim_Thompson_(bishop)" title="Jim Thompson (bishop)">Jim Thompson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Peter_Price_(bishop)" title="Peter Price (bishop)">Peter Price</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Peter_Maurice_(bishop)" title="Peter Maurice (bishop)">Peter Maurice</a> (acting diocesan)</i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Peter_Hancock" title="Peter Hancock">Peter Hancock</a></li> <li><i><a href="/wiki/Ruth_Worsley" title="Ruth Worsley">Ruth Worsley</a> (acting diocesan)</i></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Michael_Beasley_(bishop)" title="Michael Beasley (bishop)">Michael Beasley</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table></div> <div class="navbox-styles"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236075235"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1038841319">.mw-parser-output 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