HAWKINS, John Heywood (1 son of John Hawkins of Bignor park near Petworth, Sussex. d. Trewithen, Cornwall 4 July 1841). b. 1803; ed. at Eton and Trin. coll. Cam., B.A. 1825, M.A. 1828; sheriff of Sussex 1826; M.P. for St. Michael, Cornwall 1830–31, for Tavistock, Devon 1831–32, and for Newport, Isle of Wight 12 Dec. 1832 to 23 June 1841; F.R.S. d. Bignor park 27 June 1877 in 75 year.
HAWKINS, John Isaac (son of Isaac Hawkins of Taunton). b. Taunton 14 March 1772; ed. at Jersey coll. Pennsylvania; lived at village of Bordentown, New Jersey many years; started The journal of human nature and human progress; returned to England; patented a machine for taking likenesses in profile from size of life downwards; invented the claviole or finger keyed viol which imitated all the instruments of a band, patented in his father’s name 1800; invented portable grand or cottage piano, patented in America and England 1800; consulting engineer in London 1816–49; invented Pentagraph for giving any number of copies of a letter, generally used until superseded by Wedgwood’s carbonic manifold writer and copying presses; invented the ever-pointed pencil, the iridium-pointed gold pen 1823, and a method of condensing coffee; M.I.C.E. 27 April 1824; claimed to have made the first survey for a tunnel under the Thames 1808; went to U.S. of America 1849. d. Elizabeth Town, New Jersey 28 June 1855. Min. of proc. of Instit. of C.E. xxv, 512–14 (1866); Encyclop. Brit. xix, 75 (1885).
HAWKINS, Major Rhode (3 son of Edward Hawkins 1780–1867). b. Nutfield, Surrey 4 Feb. 1820; travelling architect in expedition sent by Sir Charles Fellowes to Caria and Lycia 1844, The Harpy Tomb at Br. Museum was reconstructed from his drawings and measurements; architect to Committee of council on Education. d. Redlands near Dorking 19 Oct. 1884.
HAWKINS, Susanna (dau. of a blacksmith). b. near Ecclefechan, Annandale 1787; a herder of cattle, and dairymaid at Gillenbie; domestic servant; published fugitive poems in little volumes with paper covers, and hawked them herself in Scotland and England; author of The Poetical works of Susanna Hawkins. Dumfries 1829; Poems and songs, vol. ii, iii, iv, v, vi, vii, viii, ix, 1832, 1835, 1838, 1841, 1850, 1851, 1856 and 1861. d. Burnswark hill, Hoddam, Dumfriesshire 29 March 1868. Irving’s Dict. of Scotsmen (1881) 206; Dumfries Courier 7 April 1868 p. 3.
HAWKINS, Thomas (son of John Hawkins). b. Glastonbury 25 July 1810; F.G.S. 1831; a collector of fossils; his collection of Devon, Somerset and Dorset fossils, purchased by government for £3000 in 183-, is now in Natural History Museum, South Kensington; presented collections of saurian fossils to geological museums of Cambridge 1856 and Oxford 1874; author of Memoirs of Ichthyosauri and Plesiosauri 1834; The book of the great sea-dragons 1840; Prometheus 1850, reprinted 1887; My life and works 1 vol. only 1887. d. Ventnor, Isle of Wight 29 Oct. 1889. Times 31 Oct. 1889 p. 10.
HAWKINS, Walter. b. London 1787; ed. at Hackney; Russian merchant and ship and insurance broker Finsbury circus, retired 1848; caused a medal to be struck in 1848 which he presented to young persons to encourage them in industry, courtesy and integrity; made a collection of 5000 medals and coins, which he left to the Royal United Service Instit. with £500; author of papers in Archæologia and Numismatic Chronicle; F.S.A. 1842; member Numismatic soc. 1836. d. 5 Leonard place, Kensington 27 Jany. 1862. Numismatic Chronicle Proceedings, ii, 18–19 (1862); Journal of British Archæol. Assoc. xix, 155–6 (1863).
HAWKINS, William (brother of John Hawkins 1791–1877). b. 1789; ed. at Rugby; solicitor at Hertford 1821, at Hitchin 18—to death; delivered a lecture on Emigration, published by the Emigration comrs. 1833; circulated a series of letters under title of Thoughts on agriculture. d. Hitchin 6 May 1875.
HAWKSHAW, Ann (dau. of Rev. James Jackson of Green Hamerton, Yorks.) b. 1812. (m. 1835 Sir John Hawkshaw, C.E., F.R.S., he was b. Leeds 1811, living 1891); author of Dionysius the Areopagite, poems 1842; Poems for my children 1847; Sonnets on Anglo-Saxon history 1854; under name of Aunt Effie Aunt Effie’s Rhymes for little children 1852; Aunt Effie’s Gift to the nursery 1854, 2 ed. 1876. d. Belgrave mansions, Pimlico, London 29 April 1885. J. Evans’ Lancashire authors (1876) 51.
HAWLEY, Frederick (son of Benjamin Buck Hawley, capt. 51 foot, d. 15 July 1838). b. Portsea 10 Jany. 1827; sec. Great Eastern steamship co. 1852; solicitor at 102 Chancery lane, London 1852; actor under name of Frederick Haywell 1855–85, first appeared Marylebone theatre as Florizel 5 March 1855; acted at Sadler’s Wells 5 seasons, at Prince’s theatre, Manchester many years; manager of T.R. Manchester; librarian Shakespeare memorial library, Stratford-on-Avon 17 May 1886 to death; made MS. catalogue of all editions of Shakespeare’s plays in every language 1889; wrote 2 dramas Found, Theatre royal, Manchester 2 March 1874 and Agnes of Bavaria, Gaiety theatre, London 31 Oct. 1883; author of The royal family of England, remarks on the royal succession 1851. d. Stratford 13 March 1889. bur. Highgate cemet. 18 Mch. Stratford-on-Avon Herald 15 March and 26 April 1889.
HAWLEY, Sir Joseph Henry, 3 Baronet (eld. son of Sir Henry Hawley, 2 baronet 1776–1831). b. Harley st. London 27 Oct. 1813; cornet 9 lancers 31 Aug. 1832, sold out 11 April 1834; visited Greece, the Mediterranean and Italy 1834 etc.; sheriff of Kent 1844; kept a racing stud 1844 to 19 July 1873 when he sold it for 23,575 guineas; won the Oaks with Miame 1847, the One thousand guineas with Aphrodite 1851, the Derby with Teddington 1851, Beadsman 1858, Musjid 1859, and Blue Gown 1868, the Two thousand guineas with Fitz Roland 1858, and the St. Leger with Pero Gomez 1869; won £100,000 on Beadsman 1858; collected a fine library at Leybourne grange near Maidstone. d. 34 Eaton Place, London 20 April 1875. Rice’s History of the British turf (1879) ii, 232–41; Baily’s Mag. iii, 1–5 (1861), portrait; Sporting Review, xl, 111–14 (1858), lx, 15–18 (1868); Famous Racing Men, By Thormanby (1882) 95–100; Illust. sp. and dr. news, iii, 93, 95, 112 (1875), portrait.