HAWES, William (son of Benjamin Hawes 1770–1860). b. 23 May 1805; received testimonial 1841 for his efforts to amend laws relating to soap; member of Soc. of Arts 1849, chairman of council 5 times; treasurer of Royal Humane Society 1868 to death, this society was partly founded by Dr. William Hawes his grandfather in 1774; engaged in schemes for management of hospitals, workhouses and baths and wash-houses; aided in amending bankruptcy laws, presented by merchants of city of London with a service of plate 1847; comr. of Exhibition of 1862, read before Soc. of Arts a series of papers on the Exhibition 1861–3. d. 17 Montague place, Russell sq. London 1 May 1885 aged 80. Times 8 May 1885 p. 11; Journal of Soc. of Arts 8 May 1885 p. 720.
HAWKE, Edward William Harvey Hawke, 4 Baron. b. Womersley park, Pontefract 15 July 1799; ed. at Eton; succeeded 29 Nov. 1834; master of the Badsworth hounds 14 Sep. 1826 to 1866. d. Womersley park 8 Jany. 1869. Baily’s Mag. ix, 163–66 (1864), portrait.
HAWKER, Edward (son of James Hawker, captain R.N. d. 1787). b. 1782; entered navy 1793; captain 6 June 1804; admiral on h.p. 17 Sep. 1853, pensioned 18 March 1858; a writer in The Times on naval matters under signature of A Flag Officer; author of A letter to Wellington 1840. d. Brighton 8 June 1860 aged 78.
HAWKER, Henry Samuel (4 son of general Sir Samuel Hawker). b. 1816 or 1817; lieut. R.N. 6 March 1838, captain 9 July 1861, retired 12 Oct. 1868, retired admiral 15 July 1887. d. Buckingham palace road, London 11 May 1889 in 73 year.
HAWKER, Peter (son of colonel Peter Ryves Hawker of Longparish, Hants., d. 6 Feb. 1790). b. London 24 Dec. 1786; ed. at Eton; cornet 1 royal dragoons 1801; captain 14 light dragoons 14 Aug. 1804 to 18 March 1813 when he sold out owing to wound received at Talavera; lieut.-col. of North Hampshire militia 14 Nov. 1821 to death; published Journal of a regimental officer during the recent campaign in Portugal and Spain 1810; Instructions to young sportsmen in all that relates to guns and shooting 1814, 11 ed. 1857; made inventions and improvements in fire arms 1851 etc.; invented hand moulds to facilitate playing on keyed instruments, patented by him 1 Nov. 1820. d. 2 Dorset place, Dorset sq. London 7 Aug. 1853. G.M. xl, 313 (1853); I.L.N. xix, 534, 536 (1851), portrait, xxiii, 138 (1853).
HAWKER, Rev. Robert Stephen (1 son of Jacob Stephen Hawker, surgeon, Plymouth, then vicar of Stratton, d. 1845). b. Stoke Damarel, Devon 3 Dec. 1804; ed. at Liskeard gram. sch.; articled to W. Jacobson, attorney, Plymouth; at Cheltenham gram. sch. and Pemb. coll. Ox. 1823, migrated to Magd. hall, B.A. 1828, M.A. 1836; won Newdigate prize for poem on Pompeii 27 June 1827; V. of Morwenstow 31 Dec. 1834 to death; instituted ruridecanal synods 1844; V. of Wellcombe 1850 to death; instituted weekly offertories and harvest thanksgivings; author of Tendrils. By Reuben. Cheltenham 1821; Ecclesia. Oxford 1840; Echoes from Old Cornwall 1846; The quest of the Sangraal. Exeter 1864 his best work; Footprints of former men in far Cornwall 1870; on the originality of his ballad And shall Trelawny die? there has been much discussion; delineated in Mortimer Collins’ novel Sweet and Twenty 1875 as Canon Tremaine; in his last hours received into R.C. ch. d. 9 Lockyer st. Plymouth 15 Aug. 1875, his widow Pauline Mary granted civil list pension of £80, 13 Oct. 1880. Lee’s Memorials of Rev. R. S. Hawker (1876), portrait; Baring-Gould’s The vicar of Morwenstow (1876), portrait, 3 ed. 1876; Poetical Works. Ed. J. G. Godwin (1879), portrait; Boase and Courtney’s Bibl. Cornub. i, 220–2, iii, 1222–3; Gillow’s English Catholics, iii, 183–90 (1887).
HAWKER, Sir Thomas. b. 1777; cornet 11 dragoons 12 May 1795; served in the Mediterranean and Spain 1805–15; lieut. col. 20 dragoons 2 Sep. 1808 to 1818; colonel of 6 dragoon guards 5 June 1839 to death; general 20 June 1854; K.C.H. 1837, knighted by William iv. at St. James’s palace 1 March 1837. d. Fern villa, Lansdowne place, Clifton 13 June 1858.
HAWKES, Mervyn Lanark (4 son of Sidney Milnes Hawkes). b. 1861; an originator of League for abolition of House of Lords; a lecturer at Radical clubs; contested Eye 1885, Sheffield central division 1885, Hartlepool 1886; in Australia 1888–90; author of A Primrose Dame, the story of an election. Bristol 1886. d. of consumption at his father’s house, Bruges, Belgium 17 Oct. 1890.
HAWKES, Robert. b. 1790; cornet Bengal army 30 July 1806, served during Mahratta war 1817–18; lieut. col. 9 Bengal light cavalry 1845 to 28 Nov. 1854; commanded at Lucknow 26 Jany. 1852 to 15 Nov. 1853; general 25 June 1870. d. 52 York terrace, Regent’s park, London 18 Dec. 1876.
HAWKINS, Alfred. b. England; shipping master of port of Quebec some years; author of Hawkins’s Picture of Quebec with historical recollections. Quebec 1834; The plan of the naval and military operations before Quebec, and death of Wolfe 1842; The Quebec directory and guide. Quebec 1844. d. Quebec 30 June 1854.