Robert Henry Hawkins (3 March 1892 – 19 September 1989) was a

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of the

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and

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Family and education

Hawkins was the son of Francis Henry Albert Hawkins (Vicar of All Soul's Clapton Park, Rector of All Saints' Highgate and Prebendary of

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London) and Mary Anne Ridley Hawkins. Hawkins was baptised on 25 March 1892 at All Soul's Clapton Park. He was educated at

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. From 1910, he studied theology at

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and graduated in 1913. In October 1914, Hawkins was commissioned as a Second Lieutenant in the 3rd Battalion,

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and was a Ccptain attached to the

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by the time of his marriage in 1917. He married Margaret Lacey (1890-1977), daughter of Canon Thomas Alexander Lacey at All Saints' Church, Highgate on 4 June 1917. Hawkins had five children: *John C L Hawkins 1918 *Dorothy A Hawkins 1920 *Patricia Hawkins 1923 *Robert A Hawkins 1925 *Margaret S Hawkins 1930 He received a Master of Arts degree in 1919. He was ordained a deacon in 1919 and a priest in 1920.

Career

*Curate of St Thomas' Church, Dudley 1919 - 1923 *Vicar of Maryport with Christ Church 1923 - 1927 *Vicar of St George the Martyr, Barrow in Furness from 1927 - 1934 *Rural Dean of Dalton 1928 - 1934 *Vicar of Dalston with Cumdivock 1934 - 1943 *Vicar of

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1943S. Mary's Parish Magazine, Nottingham. May 1943 - 1958 *Honorary Canon of

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1943 - 1958 *Canon of

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1958 – 1970 A memorial to Hawkins is located in the floor of the north choir aisle of

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Hawkins, Robert Henry People educated at Forest School, Walthamstow Alumni of St Edmund Hall, Oxford Canons of Windsor Vicars of St Mary's Church, Nottingham 20th-century English Anglican priests 1892 births 1989 deaths British Army personnel of World War I South Staffordshire Regiment officers Royal Flying Corps officers