George Hooper | |
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| Bishop of Bath and Wells | |
&sq=crain_ford&lang=en&file=File:Bp_George_Hooper.jpg) Hooper by Thomas Hill | |
| See | St Asaph Bath and Wells |
| Installed | 1704 |
| Predecessor | Richard Kidder |
| Successor | John Wynne |
| Other post(s) | Bishop of St Asaph 1703–1704 |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 18 November 1640 Grimley, Worcestershire, England |
| Died | 6 September 1727 (aged 86) Barkley, Frome, Somerset, England |
| Buried | Wells Cathedral |
| Nationality | English |
| Denomination | Church of England |
| Parents | George Hooper, Joan Giles |
| Spouse | Abigail Guildford |
| Alma mater | Christ Church, Oxford, BA 1660, MA 1663, BD 1673, and DD 1677 |
George Hooper | |
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Congregations served | rector of Havant and of East Woodhay, Hampshire, 1672 rector of St Mary, Lambeth, 1675 precentor of Exeter, 1677 dean of Canterbury, 1691 |
Offices held | chaplain to Dr Morley, bishop of Winchester, 1673 , chaplain to Dr Sheldon, archbishop of Canterbury, 1675 chaplain to Prince of Orange and Princess Mary, 1677 chaplain to Charles II, 1680 |
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George Hooper (18 November 1640 – 6 September 1727) was a learned and influential English High church 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.
- ^ These are the arms given in Burke's General Armory, 1884, p.505, for "Hooper". The arms Gyronny of eight or and ermine, over all a castle triple-towered sable 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 Nicholas Hooper (1654–1731), MP for Barnstaple, Devon