Theodore Edward Hook (22 September 1788 – 24 August 1841) was an English man of letters and composer and briefly a civil servant in Mauritius. He is best...

1372 The Berners Street hoax was perpetrated by Theodore Hook in Westminster, London, England, in 1810. Hook had made a bet with his friend Samuel Beazley...

and on marital relationships presaged later development in the novel. Theodore Hook was a major writer of fashionable novels, and Henry Colburn was a major...

Fulham in London. It was addressed to the writer and practical joker Theodore Hook, who was probably also its sender and artist. The hand-painted design...

Sunday newspaper established in the City, London EC4, by Theodore Hook in 1820. Under Hook, John Bull was a champion of high Toryism and the virulent...

but lost the case. He died not long after, and was commemorated by Theodore Hook with the punning epitaph, "Here lies the premier baron of England, patiently...

(film), a 2007 film about Robert Maxwell Maxwell, an 1830 novel by Theodore Hook Maxwell the pig, in the GEICO commercials Maxwell, the main protagonist...

Siege of St Quintin is an 1808 historical play by the British writer Theodore Hook. It is inspired by the 1557 Battle of St. Quentin. Its theme of a past...

The original Speaker's House adjoined St Stephen's Chapel. The writer Theodore Hook was frequently entertained there by Sir Charles Manners-Sutton during...

Landon, Felicia Hemans, Caroline Norton, Thomas Haynes Bayly, and Theodore Edward Hook. In 1837 the magazine was retitled The New Monthly Magazine and Humorist...