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Authorised form of nameHawkins; Francis Bisset (1796 - 1894)
Dates1796 - 1894
Place of birthLondon, England
Date of birth18 October 1796
Date of death07 December 1894
ActivityEducation:
Eton; BA (1816, Exeter College, Oxford); MB (1822); MD (1825)
Career:
First Professor of Materia Medica at King's College, London (1834); Inspector of Prisons (1835); Commissioner for the Governor of Pentonville Prison; Factory Commissioner; his recommendation led to the registration of cause of death in England
Memberships:
FRCP
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election18/12/1834
RelationshipsBrother of William Bentinck Hawkins FRS (1835)
SourceSources:
Bulloch's Roll
Obituaries:
Proc Roy Soc 1894-1895 vol 57 pp xxiv-xxv signed by G B
Virtual International Authority Filehttp://viaf.org/viaf/27410577
CodeNA6945
Archives associated with this Fellow
RefNoTitleDate
EC/1834/39Hawkins, Francis Bisset: certificate of election to the Royal Society
NLB/7/563Copy letter from Theodore E James, to Messrs Harrison & Sons14 March 1893
NLB/10/527Copy letter from Theodore E James, to Messrs Harrison & Sons11 December 1894
NLB/11/587Copy letter from Herbert Rix, to Miss Florence Buchanan, 27 Woburn Square, W.C.29 July 1895
MC/11/372Letter from [Francis] Bisset Hawkins, 146 Harley Street, to [Walter] White, [Assistant Secretary of the Royal Society]5 June 1879
MC/11Volume 11 of miscellaneous correspondence regarding business matters, sent to the Royal Society1877-1879
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