Life
1664-1738; son of John Hooke, and br. of John Hooke (1655-1712), sarjeant
at law, of whom a son, Nathaniel (d.1763), wrote a History of Rome. ODNB
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Reference
Dictionary of National Biography: b. Corballis, Co. Meath, ed. Glasgow and Cambridge, joined in the Monmouth
Rising, conspired with Davners to raise an insurrection in London, and
was exempted from the general pardon; surrendered and converted to Catholicism
in 1688; joined Jacobite army at Boyne, and later entered Irish regiment
in France. Fought in Battle of Ramilles (1706), and went on missions to
Scottish Jacobites in 1705 and 1707; diplomatic missions for Louis XIV; Commander of Order of St. Louis. m. Eleanor Susan Mac Carthy Reagh; took
no part in the Jacobite Rising of 1715; his correspondence for 1703-07,
partly transcribed by his nephew Nathaniel, is in the Bodleian, and was
edited by Rev. W. D. Macray, for Roxburghe Club (1870-71); previously
appeared in Revolutions d’Ecosse et d’Irlande en 1707, 1708,
1709 (Hague, 1758), and in Macpherson’s Original Papers (1775); had son, also Nathaniel (1705-1744).
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