Richard Hooker (1554-1600; ODNB), theologian and philosopher, much admired by Henson for his conception of a latitudinarian national church: see Braley, More Letters, 107-8. Henson read Hooker's Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity (1593-7) early in his career (Journal, 27 Apr. 1888) and during the passage of the Enabling Act defended the continued validity of Hooker's conception of the Church as a national institution rather than a mere denomination: 'The Church of England', 22 June 1919, in In Defence of the Church of England (1923). See also Volume 53, 62, 71.

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