Authorised form of name | Hawkins; John (1761 - 1841) |
Dates | 1761 - 1841 |
Date of birth | 06 May 1761 |
Place of death | Trewithan, Cornwall |
Date of death | 04 July 1841 |
Activity | Career: Purchased Bignor Park, Sussex (1806) and rebuilt the house (1826-1830); wrote papers mainly on the geology of Cornwall
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Membership category | Fellow |
Date of election | 05/05/1791 |
Relationships | Youngest son of Thomas Hawkins MP of Trewin and St Erth, Cornwall; younger brother of Sir Christopher Hawkins (FRS 1815) |
Source | Sources: Bulloch's Roll; DNB Notes: Index to BR refers to volume of letters entitled "I am, my dear Sir". |
Code | NA1676 |
Archives associated with this Fellow
RefNo | Title | Date |
EC/1791/06 | Hawkins, John: certificate of election to the Royal Society | |
NLB/18/141 | Copy letter from Robert William Frederick Harrison, to Bennett H Brough, Iron and Steel Institute, 28 Victoria Street, S.W. | 23 January 1899 |
MS/251/15 | Letter from John Hawkins, Bignor Park, near Petworth, to William Buckland, Oxford | 7 November 1823 |
L&P/11/153 | Paper, 'Herland mine and the discovery of silver' by John Hawkins | 1800 |
MS/710/50 | Letter from John Hawkins, Trewithen, Probus, to [Robert Were Fox] | 23 October [ny] |