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James Hooper

A British civil servant and local historian, he wrote with a strong interest in place, biography, and the lives behind public history. His surviving work includes contributions to the Dictionary of National Biography and the 1905 book Nelson's Homeland.

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Souvenir of the George Borrow Celebration

Souvenir of the George Borrow Celebration

by James Hooper

About the author

Born in 1845 and died in 1920, James Hooper is identified in Wikisource as a British civil servant and local historian. He contributed articles to the Dictionary of National Biography, including work for its 1912 supplement, and his entries were marked with the initials "J. H-r." or "J. H."

His known books include Nelson's Homeland (1905), and he also contributed to Notes & Queries. Taken together, the record suggests a writer drawn to careful historical detail and to the people and places that shaped British public life.

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