William Hooper

HOOPER, WILLIAM. farmer, tanner, innkeeper, and officeholder; b. 23 July 1824 in Northleigh, England, son of Joseph Hooper; m. 1847, Luiza Maria Esperanza, and they had nine children, Mary Esperanza, William Charles, Samuel, Emma, Frederick, Percilla, George, Sophia, and Joseph; Methodist; d. 5 January 1899. Hooper, a Liberal, was first elected to the House of Assembly in the general election of 1870 for 2nd Kings. He was re-elected in the general elections of 1872, 1879, and 1882. He was defeated in the general elections of 1876 and 1886. Educated in Horiton, England, Hooper served as Her Majesty's Commissariat in Bermuda from 1847 to 1850, when he resigned to settle in Prince Edward Island. Hooper was the chairman of the Board of Railway Appraisers from 1872 to 1873. He was also a farmer, a tanner and an innkeeper, and lived in Marie Bridge. William Hooper died 5 January 1899.