James Hawkins (bishop)

James Hawkins was an Irish Anglican bishop in the 18th and 19th centuries.^[1][2]

A former Dean of Emly (1766–1775), Hawkins was the Bishop of Dromore from 1775 to 1780 and Bishop of Raphoe from then until his death on 23 June 1807.^[3][4]

He married Catherine, the daughter of Gilbert Keene and niece of William Whitshed; they had four sons and three daughters. His son James adopted the additional surname of Whitshed and was created first Baronet Whitshed-Hawkins. His son Thomas became Dean of Clonfert in 1812 and Dean of the Chapel Royal, Dublin in 1831. ^[5]

References

1. ↑ Tuesday's Post continued, Jackson's Oxford Journal (Oxford, England), 4 July 1807; Issue 2827
2. ↑ Fryde, E. B.; Greenway, D. E.; Porter, S.; Roy, I., (1986), Handbook of British Chronology (Third ed.), Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, ISBN 0-521-56350-X
3. ↑ Community Trees
4. ↑ Births, Deaths, Marriages and Obituaries, The Morning Post (London, England), 30 June 1807; Issue 11347, 19th Century British Library Newspapers: Part II
5. ↑ Burke, Bernard (1812). The genealogy and heraldic history of the landed gentry of Ireland.