Reverend Richard Frederick Hosken (1 December 1837 - 27 January 1907) was a Church of England clergyman. Born in Cornwall, in 1849 he entered the Merchant Taylors School. He was ordained as a priest and served as curate in Ardfert, County Kerry, Ireland. He also completed a Master of Arts degree at Trinty College Dublin. Returning to England in 1875 he was appointed an assistant master at his old school. In 1877 he became curate at St Bartholomew, Moor Lane, a parish in the City of London. He died in Friern Barnet in 1907, aged 69.