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View Tree for John (Vowell) HookerJohn (Vowell) Hooker (b. 1521, d. 1601)

John (Vowell) Hooker was born 1521 in Exeter, County Alevenshire, ENGLAND, and died 1601 in Exeter, County Alevenshire, ENGLAND. He married Alice Powell on 1559 in Salisbury, County Dorsetshire, ENGLAND.

 Includes NotesNotes for John (Vowell) Hooker:
The mother of John Greene, surgeon, Mary Hooker, was the daughter of JOHN
HOOKER (alias Vowell), who was born at Exeter, England, about 1524, his
father, Robert Hooker, having been mayor of that city in 1520. His
parents died when he was about ten years old. His early education was
acquired under Dr. Moseman, Vicar of Menhussin in Cornwall, and he
afterward studied law at Oxford. Later he traveled in Germany and resided
some time in Cologne and Strasburg, where he was the guest of Peter
Martyne and attended the divinity lectures of that learned Reformer. He
returned to England and after a short stay went to France, intending to
extend his travels to Spain and Italy, but was prevented by the war.
Returning to his native country he settled in Exeter, and was chosen
first chamberlain of that city, 1555. He devoted himself after this to
the study of history and antiquities. In 1568 was a member of the Irish
Parliament, and in 1571 was one of the members of the English Parliament
from Exeter (Wood). Price says he died 1601 (?), when about eighty years
of age, and was buried in Exeter Cathedral, but had no monument. He was
the author of several works, among them: "State of Ireland and Order of
keeping a Parliament in that Country," the same being found in the
British Museum under title, "Order and Usage of keeping Parliament in
England" (MS. Harl., II73, vol. I9). (From History of Devonshire, by Rev.
Thomas Moore, vol. ii. p. I 25)

John Hooker was uncle to the celebrated divine, Richard Hooker, Rector of
Bascombe, County Wilts, 1591, and Prebendary of Sarum. His grandson, John
Greene, removed early to Sarum (Salisbury), the county town of Wiltshire,
(2) [IT:(2)((Leland's Itinerary (pp. 7-8, 31) gives the following: 'The
city of Old Saresbyri standing on a hill is distant from the New a mile
by north weste and d is incompace half a mile and mo. This city has been
ancient and exceeding strong but syns the building of New Saresbyri it
went totally to ruin. . . . In times of civil wars--insomuch as the
castellanes of Old Saresbyri and the chanons could not agree, whereupon
the bishop and they consulting together at the last began a church on
their own proper soyle and then the people resorted strangers to New
Saresbyrie and builded there and in continuance were a great number of
the houses of old Saresbyri pulled down and set up at New Saresbyri."

Thomas's Church was built as a Chapel of Ease to the Cathedral by Bishop
Bingham in the Year (?). It was dedicated to St. Thomas of Becket,
Archbishop of Canterbury, who was martyred in the reign of King Henry II,
and is said to be in some respects more beautiful than the Cathedral.


More About John (Vowell) Hooker:
Burial: Exeter Cathedral Cemetery (no monument), Exeter, County Alevenshire, ENGLAND.

More About John (Vowell) Hooker and Alice Powell:
Marriage: 1559, Salisbury, County Dorsetshire, ENGLAND.

Children of John (Vowell) Hooker and Alice Powell are:
  1. +Mary Hooker, b. August 15, 1567.
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