An amateur mountaineer,[9] novelist and composer, he died on 5 February 1828.[10]His brother[11] and son[12] also achieved eminence in their respective fields.
References
^Catalogue of the Lansdowne Manuscripts in the British Museum 1819 p252
^Bishops & Deans of Worcester Green,B: Worcester, Worcester Cathedral, 1979
^The annual biography and obituary for the year 1829, Vol.XIII, London, 1829, p.65.
^ abRichard Garnett, ‘Hook, James (1772?–1828)’, rev. H. C. G. Matthew, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 accessed 28 June 2013