Thomas Jarman Hawkins (1809 – 12 December 1885) was an English-born Australian politician. He was born at

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to Thomas Fitzherbert Hawkins and Elizabeth Lilly. The family migrated to

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in 1822, and Hawkins became a farmer near

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. Around 1837 he married Ann Bowling, with whom he had four children. He was elected to the

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for East Macquarie in 1859, but he resigned in 1860. From 1875 to 1881 he was Commissioner of Crown Lands for the Western District. Hawkins died near Bathurst in 1885.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Hawkins, Thomas Jarman 1809 births 1885 deaths Members of the New South Wales Legislative Assembly British emigrants to the Colony of New South Wales Colony of New South Wales politicians