Walter Hook

For the executive director of the Institute for Transportation and Development Policy, see Walter B. Hook.

Signed photo of Walter Farquhar Hook
Walter Farquhar Hook
Walter Hook circa 1860
Statue in Leeds City Square

Walter Farquhar Hook (13 March 1798 – 20 October 1875), known to his contemporaries as Dr Hook, was an eminent Victorian churchman.

He was the Vicar of Leeds responsible for the construction of the current Leeds Minster and for many ecclesiastical and social improvements to the city in the mid-nineteenth century. His achievements, as a High Churchman and Tractarian in a non-conformist city are remarkable. Later in life, he became Dean of Chichester.