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About Arthur Charles Gook
- Arthur Charles Gook (11 June 1883 – 1959) in London, England is primarily known today for having translated Reverend HallgrĂmur PĂ©tursson's Passion Hymns into English. The third of five sons, Arthur Gook's father was a teacher.
- Gook distinguished himself as a student and won a university scholarship.
- His father, having taken up a new profession as an estate agent, would not allow him to attend a university.
- Instead, Gook was made to work in the family business.
- Later, he became personal secretary to a London publisher, and it was there he trained for the literary and publishing work he undertook later in life. Arther Gook was converted in a Bible class, and the Bible became his favourite book.
- He determined to reform his life and joined with the Open Brethren, which was a branch of the Plymouth Brethren religious sect.
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