the Education Acts of the late nineteenth century. His insistence on the necessity of education, and the duty of society to provide it, to some extent, was not what some of his richest parishioners believed. The minster remains as a physical legacy of Hook's work, being a significant early High Church Gothic revival design. Chichester Hook left Leeds to take up the Deanery of Chichester in 1859. He was appointed honorary chaplain of the Chichester-based 1st Administrative Battalion, Sussex Rifle Volunteer Corps, on 13 August 1864. He died 20 October 1875 and was buried in Mid Lavant, a small village near Chichester. Honours He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1862 as someone "Eminent as a Divine. Author of the Lives of the Arch-bishops of Canterbury, of The Ecclesiastical Biography, Church Dictionary & several other works." A memorial to Hook was built in the Leeds Parish Church, and in 1903 a statue was erected to him in City Square, in the company of a select few other leading fathers of the city. What is now All Souls' Church, Blackman Lane in Leeds was built by public subscription as the Hook Memorial. Writings 1842: Church Dictionary (often reprinted) 1845: Dictionary of Ecclesiastical Biography. 8 vols. 1845–1852 1860: Lives of the Archbishops of Canterbury. 12 vols. 1860–1876 References Sources Leodis: Leeds Stephens, W. R. W. (1878) The Life and Letters of Walter Farquhar Hook. 2 vols. London: Richard Bentley & Son Obituary of Dean Hook, The Times, Thursday, 21 October 1875; p. 8; Issue 28452; col F Further reading Stranks, C. J. (1954) Dean Hook. London: A. R. Mowbray Harry Dalton Anglican Resurgence under W.F.Hook in Early Victorian Leeds External links Bibliographic directory from Project Canterbury The Life and Letters of Walter Farquhar Hook, 1878 book from Windows Live Search Books Leeds Parish Church 1798 births 1875 deaths Clergy from London People educated at Blundell's School People educated at Winchester College Alumni of Christ Church, Oxford English Anglo-Catholics Members of the Canterbury Association Deans of Chichester Fellows of the Royal Society Anglo-Catholic clergy 19th-century English Anglican priests Anglo-Catholic writers 19th-century Anglican theologians 18th-century Anglican theologians 18th-century Anglican clergy 19th-century Anglican clergy 18th-century Anglican priests Sacramental theology