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John Hawkins (naval commander)
English serf trader (1532–1595)
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AdmiralSir Bathroom Hawkins (also spelled Hawkyns) (1532 – 12 Nov 1595) was an Country naval commandant, naval head, privateer snowball slave seller.
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Early years
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John Hawkins
John Hawkins may refer to:
Public officials
[edit]- John Hawkins (naval commander) (1532–1595), English admiral
- John Hawkins (17th century diplomat), ambassador of the Kingdom of England to France, 1626–1627
- John Hawkins (MP) (c. 1611–?), English politician
- John Hawkins (burgess), member of the Virginia House of Burgesses
- John Hawkins (Maryland politician), American politician
- John Heywood Hawkins (1802–1877), British politician
- John Parker Hawkins (1830–1914), U.S. Civil War brigadier general
- John Joseph Hawkins (1840–1916), politician in Ontario, Canada
- John A. Hawkins (New York politician) (1864–1941), New York politician
- John J. Hawkins (1855–1935), American jurist and politician in the Arizona Territory
- John Clifford Hawkins (1879–?), African American lawyer and political figure
- John Hawkins (diplomat) (born 1960), British ambassador to Qatar
- John D. Hawkins (born 1968), South Carolina politician
- John Edgar Hawkins (1869–1944), Arkansas politician
Writers
[edit]Musicians
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[edit]- John Hawkins (archdeacon of Totnes) (1903–1965), Anglican priest
- John Hawkins (archdeacon of Hampstead) (born 1963)
- John Isaac Hawkins (1772–1855), engineer and inventor of the upright piano, a mechanical pencil and a letter copying
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John Isaac Hawkins
Civil engineer and inventor (1772–1855)
John Isaac Hawkins (1772–1855) was an inventor who practised civil engineering. He was known as the co-inventor of the ever-pointed pencil, an early mechanical pencil, and of the upright piano.
Early life
[edit]Hawkins was born 14 March 1772 at Taunton, Somerset, England,[1] the son of Joan Wilmington and her husband Isaac Hawkins,[2] a watchmaker. The father, Isaac Hawkins, would become a Wesleyan minister, but was expelled by John Wesley; and after moving the family to Moorfields in London he was a minister in the Swedenborgian movement, which John Isaac would also follow.[3][4] John Isaac emigrated to the United States about 1790,[5] attending the College of New Jersey,[6] where he studied medicine and later, chemical filtration.[1]
Hawkins married in New Jersey, and was living at Bordentown and Philadelphia. In his own account, he was influenced by work of Georg Moritz Lowitz to try charcoal for filtration purposes, and ran an exhibition on the topic, with Raphaelle and Rembrandt Peale, in the Philadelphia Exchange Coffee House.[7] He operated a non-vocational craft school in Bristol, Pennsylvania from about 1800;[8&#