Hawkes, Walter, 1761-1808

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).

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