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Theodore Hook

Theodore Hook
Theodore Hook, English composer and educator (d. 1841)

Theodore Edward Hook was an English man of letters and composer and briefly a civil servant in Mauritius. He is best known for his practical jokes, particularly the Berners Street hoax in 1809. The world's first postcard was received by Hook in 1840; he likely posted it to himself.

22 September 1788

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