Robert Vowell alias Hooker, Mayor of Exeter

Bef 1467 - 1537  (> 70 years)

• Name	Robert Vowell alias Hooker  [1, 2]
  Suffix	Mayor of Exeter
  Born	Bef 1467	of Exeter, Devon, England   [3]
  Gender	Male
  Died	9 Aug 1537  [4, 5]
  Alternate death	9 Aug 1538  [6]
  Person ID	I20351	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of JTS
  Last Modified	1 Jun 2018

  
  

  Father	John Vowell alias Hooker,   d. 1493
  Mother	Agnes Drewell,   d. Bef Aug 1534
  Family ID	F7375	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Agnes Doble,   b. of Woodbridge, Suffolk, England ,   d. Aft Aug 1538
  Children	+ 1. Roger Hooker + 2. John Hooker alias Vowell,   b. Abt 1524, of Exeter, Devon, England ,   d. Between 26 Jan 1601 and 15 Sep 1601, Exeter, Devon, England  (Age ~ 77 years)
  Last Modified	19 Nov 2017
  Family ID	F12586	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Notes

  Mayor of Exeter in 1520. Member of Parliament for Exeter in 1529 and 1536. He died of the plague. "The Vowell family had originated in Pembrokeshire, acquiring the name Hooker through marriage to a Hampshire heiress in the fifteenth century; however, John's forebears usually styled themselves Vowell, and John himself was known by that name for much of his life. By the early sixteenth century the family had been prominent in Exeter for several generations." [Oxford Dictionary of National Biography]

  
  

• Sources

  [S1615] The Greenes of Rhode Island, with Historical Records of English Ancestry by George Sears Greene. New York: The Knickerbocker Press, 1903. [S1842] Philip B. Secor, "Richard Hooker: Prophet of Anglicanism and Son of Exeter.". [S76] The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press, 2004-ongoing. [S76] The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. Oxford University Press, 2004-ongoing., year only. [S47] The History of Parliament. Some citations point to entries from the printed volumes not yet added to the online site. [S699] The Visitations of the County of Devon, Comprising the Heralds' Visitations of 1531, 1564, & 1620, with additions by J. L. Vivian. Devon: 1895.