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Author: Hoole, Samuel

Biography:

HOOLE, Samuel (1758?-1839: ODNB)

He was baptised as a dissenter on 31 Jan. 1758 at Bartholomew Close and Pinners Hall Independent, London, the son of John Hoole (q.v.) and his wife Susannah Smith. He chose the established church, however, and was ordained deacon in 1781 and priest in 1782. He had matriculated at Magdalen College, Oxford, at the relatively advanced age of 22 in Jul. 1780. Alumni Oxonienses has no record of a later degree but the record of ordination claims an MA from Magdalen in 1781. Samuel Johnson (q.v.) was a family friend and an admirer of Samuel Hoole’s early poetical works; the Hooles visited him in his final illness in 1784. All three of them moved to Abinger, Surrey, in 1786. At Stepney on 15 Sept. 1791 he married Elizabeth Young (1768-1794), daughter of the agriculturist Arthur Young (1741-1820), by license, but she was tubercular and died three years later. By his second marriage, to Catherine Warneford (not Wainford) at St. Martin, Dorking, on 10 Dec. 1803, he had a son, John, who graduated from Magdalen and became a clergyman and eventually his father’s curate. It was in 1803 that Hoole was named Rector of Poplar Chapel, Stepney, a position he retained for the rest of his life. Apart from the poetry listed here, which was highly regarded in its time, he published some sermons and collections of sermons and a memoir of his father, Anecdotes of . . . the late Mr. John Hoole (1803). He died at Tenterden, Kent, on 26 Feb. 1839 and was buried there on 5 Mar. (ODNB 24 Oct. 2022; CCEd 26 Oct. 2022; Alumni Oxonienses 26 Oct. 2022; findmypast.com 26 Oct. 2022; OUCH 9 Mar. 1839)

 

Other Names:

  • the Rev. Samuel Hoole
 

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