Robert Hawker

HAWKER, Robert. b. Exeter, 1753; d. Plymouth, 6 April 1827. He studied medicine at Magdalen Hall (now Hertford College), Oxford, and the title page of some of his published works describes him as ‘D.D.’. He was described by Sabine Baring-Gould*, in the biography of his grandson, Robert Stephen Hawker*, as ‘a man as remarkable for his abilities as he was for his piety’ (1899, p. 1). He took Holy Orders and served as the incumbent of Charles Church, Plymouth, from 1784 until his death. Like many of his contemporaries, he acknowledged the original hopes of the French Revolution, and lamented its progress, in An Appeal to the People of England, on the subject of the French Revolution: after a...