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Hawke, Eric Ludlow, son of Frederick Hawke, of Hampstead, by Jessie Grace, daughter of Edmund Ludlow, of Dundry, Somerset; b. May 25, 1892; adm. Sept. 27, 1906 (G); elected head to Trin. Coll. Camb. (with Samwaies) July 1911, matric. Michaelmas 1911; B.A. 1914; M.A. 1919; meteorologist; asst. to the Director of the Meteorological Office 1915-9; on the editorial staff of The Times Jan. 1919 to Feb. 1923; secretary, Royal Meteorological Soc. 1935-49; Buchan prizeman 1945; vice-president 1950; author of Buchan's Days (1937); m. April 16, 1929, Lynda Mary Asher, younger daughter of Albert Henry Perkins, civil servant, of Cardiff; d. 1967.

HAWKES, --- ; b. ; adm. ; KS 21 Nov 1553 (Acts of Chapter).

HAWKES, JEREMIAH, eldest son of Jeremiah Hawkes, Cecil Street, Strand, London, coal merchant, and Sarah, youngest dau. of Philip Walter, Moreton Hampstead, Devon; b. 30 Sep 1758; adm. 14 Jan 1771; Cadet, EICS Bombay 1776; Lieut. -Fireworker, Bombay Artillery 26 Nov 1777; 2nd Lieut., Feb 1778; Lieut., 1 Aug 1779; Capt., 16 May 1787; Brevet Maj., 5 May 1795; Brevet Lieut. -Col., 1 Jan 1800; served Mysore war 1783, 1790-2; Director of the Laboratory, Bombay 1792; Commissary-General of the Ordnance, Bombay, from 1794; m. 1st, ---; m. 2nd, 13 May 1784 Elizabeth, widow of Capt. John Stone, EICS Bengal, Bengal Artillery, and third dau. of Capt. Thomas Ringrose, EICS Bombay; drowned while crossing an arm of the sea near Bombay in a palanquin, 12 Mar 1800.

HAWKES, JOHN, brother of Jeremiah Hawkes (qv); bapt. St. Paul, Covent Garden 17 Mar 1766; adm. 15 Sep 1775; left before 1788.

HAWKES, JOSEPH, brother of Jeremiah Hawkes (qv); b. 27 Nov 1764; adm. 13 Jan 1772; succeeded to his father’s business as a coal merchant in Whitefriars; d. unm. 27 Sep 1807.

HAWKES, WALTER, brother of Jeremiah Hawkes (qv); b. 23 Oct 1761; adm. 14 Jan 1771; KS 1776; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1780, adm. pens. 24 May 1780, scholar 5 May 1781, matr. Mich. 1780; Cadet, EICS Bengal 1780; Ensign, 2nd Bengal Native Infantry 1781; Lieut., 13 Aug 1782; Capt., 31 Jul 1799; Maj., 11 Sep 1804; Deputy Judge Advocate-General, Dinajpur and Chunar; one of donors of Warren Hastings Cup; m. at Chunar, India 28 Apr 1797 Sarah, widow of Capt. John Rotton, EICS Bengal, Commandant of Bencoolen, mother by him of John Stuart Rotton (qv), and dau. of John Harriott, Great Stambridge, Essex, Magistrate Thames Police Court; drowned with his wife on their voyage home from India in ship Experiment, foundered in Bay of Bengal 20 Nov 1808. Monument in Dark Cloister, Westminster Abbey, erected by his friend William Francklin (qv).

Hawkin, Edward Louis Botha, son of Robert Crawford Hawkin, barrister-at-law, and Marie Mandina, d. of Louis Botha of Vrede, Orange Free State, SA; b. 15 Dec. 1908; adm. May 1922 (A), (B) Sept. 1925 as first Head of Busby's; left July 1926; asst master British Sch. Madrid; 2nd Lieut. RASC 1940, Capt. Feb. 1947, Maj. Oct. 1953; m. Maria del Pilar, d. of Capt. John Suther­land Harvey of Barcelona; d. 2 June 1975.