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Authorised form of nameHawkins; John (1761 - 1841)
Dates1761 - 1841
Date of birth06 May 1761
Place of deathTrewithan, Cornwall
Date of death04 July 1841
ActivityCareer:
Purchased Bignor Park, Sussex (1806) and rebuilt the house (1826-1830); wrote papers mainly on the geology of Cornwall
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election05/05/1791
RelationshipsYoungest son of Thomas Hawkins MP of Trewin and St Erth, Cornwall; younger brother of Sir Christopher Hawkins (FRS 1815)
SourceSources:
Bulloch's Roll; DNB
Notes:
Index to BR refers to volume of letters entitled "I am, my dear Sir".
CodeNA1676
Archives associated with this Fellow
RefNoTitleDate
EC/1791/06Hawkins, John: certificate of election to the Royal Society
NLB/18/141Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Bennett H Brough, Iron and Steel Institute, 28 Victoria Street, S.W.23 January 1899
MS/251/15Letter from John Hawkins, Bignor Park, near Petworth, to William Buckland, Oxford7 November 1823
L&P/11/153Paper, 'Herland mine and the discovery of silver' by John Hawkins1800
MS/710/50Letter from John Hawkins, Trewithen, Probus, to [Robert Were Fox]23 October [ny]
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