Hawes, Arthur Biscoe, 1832-1897
- GB-2014-WSA-08896
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- 1832-1897
HAWES, ARTHUR BISCOE, youngest son of Sir Benjamin Hawes KCB, Permanent Under Secretary of State for War, and Sophia Macnamara, dau. of Sir Marc Isambard Brunel, Kt, MICE FRS, civil engineer; b. 29 Oct 1832; adm. 1 Oct 1846 (Rigaud's); his exploit of blocking up with the contents of a coal cart the door from which Liddell used to come out to go up School is recounted in F. Markham, Recollections of a Town Boy, 205-6; left Whitsun 1849; Cadet, EICS Bengal 1849; Ensign, unattached, 12 Dec 1849; 38th Native Infantry 25 May 1850; Lieut., 6 Jan 1852; Capt., 16 May 1858; retd. 22 Oct 1858; member, Committee for the Valuation of Military Equipments, Store Department, India Office; living Weybridge, Surrey, in 1881; m. (by 1857) Susan --- (1881 Census); d. 15 May 1897.