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was known for rebuilding Leeds Minster and organizing Leeds into parishes in his role as Vicar of Leeds; subsequently became Dean of Chichester. received ordination in 1821, and worked in Isle of Wight parishes, prior to Becoming took the Leeds vicar post in 1837, pushing church expansion amid the industrial period.

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On 30 Sept. 1821 he was ordained deacon, and until 1826 was his father's curate at Whippingham in the Isle of Wight. Hook was practically curate in charge. In a little wooden hut which he set up near the corner of the churchyard he worked with great energy at a course of theological and historical study previously marked out for himself from an early hour daily till two or three o'clock in the afternoon.

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