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| - John Hawkins (6 May 1761 — 4 July 1841) was a geologist, traveller and writer,
He was the youngest son of Thomas Hawkins of Trewinnard, St Erth, Cornwall, M.P. for Grampound, by Anne, daughter of James Heywood of London.
He was educated at Helston school, Winchester College, and took his BA from Trinity College, Cambridge in 1782.. He devoted his long life to the study of literature, science, and art. He travelled in Greece, where he purchased stele, and in the Levant, and wrote dissertations ‘On the Syrinx of Strabo and the Passage of the Euripus,’ ‘On the site of Dodona,’ and the like which are printed in Robert Walpole's [http://books.google.com/books?id=ZLdNAAAAMAAJ Memoirs of European and Asiatic Turkey] (1818), and Walpole's Travels in various Countries of the East. as a secondary residence more convenient to Westminster than his Cornish estate, and collected a great number of valuable paintings, drawings to add to his antiquities.
Hawkins, who was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1791, wrote a number of papers on scientific subjects, most of them connected with the geology of Cornwall (a full list is given in Boase and Courtney'S Bibliotheca Cornubiensis, i. 222, 223, iii. 1224).
He was a founder member of the Royal Horticultural Society, an honorary member of the Geological Society of London, and a founder member of the Royal Geological Society of Cornwall. He contributed papers to the RGSC on the submarine mine at Wherrytown, near Penzance.
Hawkins was a correspondent of Davies Gilbert and Gideon Mantell.
In 1826 he served the office of High Sheriff of Sussex; he also served as a magistrate in both Cornwall and Sussex. He died at his seat of Trewithen, Cornwall. He married Hester, daughter of Humphrey Sibthorpe, M.P. for Lincoln, and had four sons and two daughters. The eldest, John Heywood Hawkins (1802-1877), was M.P. for Newport, Isle of Wight, from 1833 to 1841, and inherited his Sussex properties, the younger son, Christopher (1820-1903) inheriting the Cornish properties." (en)
- John Hawkins (6 May 1761 — 4 July 1841) was a geologist, traveller and writer,
He was the youngest son of Thomas Hawkins of Trewinnard, St Erth, Cornwall, M.P. for Grampound, by Anne, daughter of James Heywood of London.
He was educated at Helston school, Winchester College, and took his BA from Trinity College, Cambridge in 1782.. He devoted his long life to the study of literature, science, and art. He travelled in Greece, where he purchased stele, and in the Levant, and wrote dissertations ‘On the Syrinx of Strabo and the Passage of the Euripus,’ ‘On the site of Dodona,’ and the like which are printed in Robert Walpole's [http://books.google.com/books?id=ZLdNAAAAMAAJ Memoirs of European and Asiatic Turkey] (1818), and Walpole's Travels in various Countries of the East. as a secondary residence more convenient to Westminster than his Cornish estate, and collected a great number of valuable paintings, drawings to add to his antiquities.
Hawkins, who was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1791, wrote a number of papers on scientific subjects, most of them connected with the geology of Cornwall (a full list is given in Boase and Courtney'S Bibliotheca Cornubiensis, i. 222, 223, iii. 1224).
He was a founder member of the Royal Horticultural Society, an honorary member of the Geological Society of London, and a founder member of the Royal Geological Society of Cornwall. He contributed papers to the RGSC on the submarine mine at Wherrytown, near Penzance.
Hawkins was a correspondent of Davies Gilbert and Gideon Mantell.
In 1826 he served the office of High Sheriff of Sussex; he also served as a magistrate in both Cornwall and Sussex. He died at his seat of Trewithen, Cornwall. He married Hester, daughter of Humphrey Sibthorpe, M.P. for Lincoln, and had four sons and two daughters. The eldest, John Heywood Hawkins (1802-1877), was M.P. for Newport, Isle of Wight, from 1833 to 1841, and inherited his Sussex properties, the younger son, Christopher (1820-1903) inheriting the Cornish properties. (en)
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