Henry Hawkes
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Henry Hawkes B.A., FLS
Linnean Society of London
The Linnean Society of London is the world's premier society for the study and dissemination of taxonomy and natural history. It publishes a zoological journal, as well as botanical and biological journals...

. (1805—1886) was an English unitarian
Unitarianism
Unitarianism is a Christian theological movement, named for its understanding of God as one person, in direct contrast to Trinitarianism which defines God as three persons coexisting consubstantially as one in being....

 clergyman and author. He is best known for his memoir of the ragged schools originator John Pounds
John Pounds
John Pounds was a teacher and altruist born in Portsmouth, and the man most responsible for the creation of the concept of Ragged schools...

 (1766—1839), to whom he was introduced in 1833, soon after arriving in Portsmouth
Portsmouth
Portsmouth is the second largest city in the ceremonial county of Hampshire on the south coast of England. Portsmouth is notable for being the United Kingdom's only island city; it is located mainly on Portsea Island...

 to serve as a minister. His published works include sermons and The Passover Moon (1878) a study of the divinity of Christ
Christ
Christ is the English term for the Greek meaning "the anointed one". It is a translation of the Hebrew , usually transliterated into English as Messiah or Mashiach...

. He was christened on 28 April 1805 at the Old Chapel-Presbyterian, Dukinfield
Dukinfield
Dukinfield is a small town within the Metropolitan Borough of Tameside, in Greater Manchester, England. It lies in central Tameside on the south bank of the River Tame, opposite Ashton-under-Lyne, and is east of the city of Manchester...

, Cheshire. He befriended John Pounds while serving as the Minister of the Unitarian Chapel in High Street1. In 1881 he was retired and lodging in Elm Grove Marston Lodge in Portsea
Portsea
Portsea is an area of the English city of Portsmouth, located on Portsea Island, within the ceremonial county of Hampshire.The area was originally known as the Common and lay between the town of Portsmouth and the nearby Dockyard. The Common started to be developed at the end of the seventeenth...

. He was unmarried.

External links

Henry Hawkes, Recollections of John Pounds (1884) http://books.google.com/books?id=XuzLkjItE6sC&printsec=frontcover&dq=John+Pounds&lr=#PPP1,M1

Henry Hawkes, Other works http://openlibrary.org/a/OL4355214A/Henry-Hawkes
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