Cecil Hook

Cecil Hook (1 December 1844 – 4 February 1938) was, from 1905 to 1915, the first Bishop of Kingston in the Church of England.

Hook was born on 1 December 1844 into a clerical family.^[1] He was educated at Radley School and Christ Church, Oxford.^[2] He was ordained in 1868 was a curate at St John's Redland, Bristol.^[3] He was then appointed Rector of All Saints' Chichester.^[4] He was appointed Rural Dean of Oswestry in 1891^[5] and then Leamington in 1896. He was appointed suffragan in 1904 to assist the Bishop of Southwark.^[6]