Ross Hook
Ross Sydney Hook was an Anglican bishop in the 20th century.
Educated at Christ’s Hospital and Peterhouse, Cambridge, he was made a deacon on Trinity Sunday 1941 by Cyril Garbett, Bishop of Winchester, and ordained a priest the following Trinity Sunday by Mervyn Haigh, Bishop of Winchester — both times at Winchester Cathedral. After Second World War service in the RNVR he was appointed Chaplain of Ridley Hall, Cambridge. From here he rose rapidly in the Church hierarchy being successively Vicar of Chorlton-cum-Hardy, Rural Dean of Chelsea and a Canon Residentiary at Rochester Cathedral before being ordained to the episcopate as Bishop of Grantham in 1965. He was consecrated a bishop on 30 November 1965 by Michael Ramsey, Archbishop of Canterbury, at Westminster Abbey. He was translated to become Bishop of Bradford seven years later. Following his time Bradford, he served at Lambeth Palace as Chief of Staff to the Archbishop of Canterbury.
