. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. Communications to the Editor to be addretied ' Strangeways Printing Office, Tower Street, Cambridge Circus, [No. 306. Vol. XVII.] JUNE 27, 1889. [Published Weekly.] Atonal, ftotkjes, fc« EMINENT BEE-KEEPERS. No. 6.—JOHN MARSHALL HOOKER. John Marshall Hooker was born at Brenchley, in the county of Kent, on the 26th of April, 1829. He was the youngest son of Stephen Hooker, Esq., late of Broad Oak in that parish, who inherited, and died pos- sessed of, considerable landed property in the counties of Kent and Sus- sex, which by his will h
. British bee journal & bee-keepers adviser. Bees. Communications to the Editor to be addretied ' Strangeways Printing Office, Tower Street, Cambridge Circus, [No. 306. Vol. XVII.] JUNE 27, 1889. [Published Weekly.] Atonal, ftotkjes, fc« EMINENT BEE-KEEPERS. No. 6.—JOHN MARSHALL HOOKER. John Marshall Hooker was born at Brenchley, in the county of Kent, on the 26th of April, 1829. He was the youngest son of Stephen Hooker, Esq., late of Broad Oak in that parish, who inherited, and died pos- sessed of, considerable landed property in the counties of Kent and Sus- sex, which by his will he directed to be sold and divided among his wife and nine children then living. The family of Hookers, from which Mr. John M. Hooker is descended, held lands in Hampshire at a very early date. They took up their residence at Igbt- bam,in Kent, about the year 1620. One branch of this family, John Hooker, was possessed of lands in West Peckham, in Kent, where he resided, and in the year 1712 he was High Sheriff for the county. John Hooker, his son, became possessed of the Broad Oak Estate at Brenchley in the county of Kent in the year 1689, the greater portion of the property having re- mained in the family until the death of Stephen Hooker, the father of the subject of the present sketch. At the age of seven years, John M. Hooker was sent to a school well known in Kent —' Tudor Hall,' Hawkhurst, — and when he was twelve years old he was removed to Great Ealing School in Middlesex, at that time kept by Dr. Frank Nichols, where he remained till he was between seventeen and eighteen years old. On leaving school he was articled to "VVm. Caveler, Esq., an architect well known in the profession by the works he published on Gothic Architecture. After this he was for a time in the office of George Smith, Esq., the architect and sur- veyor to the Mercers' Company. On leaving Mr. Smith he commenced on his own account, and has ever since carried on his profession of an architec
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