Richard Henry Hook

Born 1849 (Circa)
Died 8 September 1923

Active: 1861 - 1911

Country of birth and death: England

Stone mason, stone work manager, teacher of stone working for architects, draughtsman working for architectural sculptor

Born in Bisley, Gloucestershire. He was the son of Richard Hook (born c.1815 in Bisley) a baker and butcher. Richard Henry appears to have trained first in his father's trade before becoming a stonemason. He worked in Lambeth for most of his career, and two of his sons also joined the carving trade. Ernest Henry Hook (born c.1871) started as a stonemason and later became an architectural sculptor. Arthur Albert Hook (born c.1874) trained as a wood carver and was employed by a sculptors, mason's and joinery works in 1911.

By 1901 Richard Henry Hook was working as a Stone Work Manager - this is around the time he is presumed to have been teaching 'Stoneworking for Architects' at Central School of Arts and Crafts. He moved to Purleigh near Latchingdon in Essex by 1911, and was employed by an architectural sculptor as a draughtsman. He died at the same address in 1923.

Wealth at death: £1,540 2s. 0d.
Resworn, originally £1090 2s
Probate date: 12 October 1923

Citing this record

'Richard Henry Hook', Mapping the Practice and Profession of Sculpture in Britain and Ireland 1851-1951, University of Glasgow History of Art and HATII, online database 2011 [http://sculpture.gla.ac.uk/view/person.php?id=msib4_1250091448, accessed 13 Aug 2022]