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HAWKER, ROBERT STEPHEN (1803–1874)

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HAWKER, See also:ROBERT See also:STEPHEN (1803–1874) , See also:English See also:antiquary and poet, was See also:born at Stoke Damerel, See also:Devonshire, on the 3rd of See also:December 1803. His See also:father, See also:Jacob Stephen Hawker, was at that See also:time a See also:doctor, but afterwards See also:curate and See also:vicar of Stratton, See also:Cornwall. Robert was sent to See also:Liskeard See also:grammar school, and when he was about sixteen was apprenticed to a See also:solicitor. He was soon removed to See also:Cheltenham grammar school, and in See also:April 1823 matriculated at See also:Pembroke See also:College, See also:Oxford. In the same See also:year he married See also:Charlotte I'Ans, a See also:lady much older than himself. On returning to Oxford he migrated to Magdalen See also:Hall, where he graduated in 1828, having already won the See also:Newdigate See also:prize for See also:poetry in 1827. He became vicar of Morwenstow, a See also:village on the See also:north Cornish See also:coast, in 18J4. Hawker described the bulk of his parishioners as a " mixed multitude of smugglers, wreckers and dissenters of various hues." He was himself a high churchman, and carried things with a high See also:hand in his See also:parish, but was much beloved by his See also:people. He was a See also:man of See also:great originality, and numerous stories were told of his striking sayings and See also:eccentric conduct. He was the See also:original of See also:Mortimer See also:Collins's See also:Canon Tremaine in Sweet and Twenty. His first wife died in 1863, and in 1864 he married Pauline Kuczynski, daughter of a See also:Polish See also:exile. He died in See also:Plymouth on the 15th of See also:August 1875.

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death he was formally received into the See also:Roman See also:Catholic See also:Church, a proceeding which aroused a See also:bitter newspaper controversy. The best of his poems is The Quest of the Sangraal: See also:Chant the First (See also:Exeter, 1864). Among his Cornish See also:Ballads (1869) the most famous is on " See also:Trelawny," the refrain of which, " And shall Trelawny See also:die," &c., he declared to be an old Cornish saying. See The Vicar of Morwenstow (1875; later and corrected See also:editions, 1876 and 1886), by the Rev. S. See also:Baring-See also:Gould, which was severely criticized by Hawker's friend, W. Maskell, in the See also:Athenaeum (See also:March 26, 1876); Memorials of the See also:late Robert Stephen Hawker (1876), by the late Dr F. G. See also:Lee. These were superseded in 1905 by The See also:Life and Letters of R. S. Hawker, by his son-in-See also:law, C.

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Byles, which contains a bibliography of his See also:works, now very valuable to collectors. Sec also See also:Boase and See also:Courtney, Bibliotheca Cornubiensis. His Poetical Works (1879) and his See also:Prose Works (1893) were edited by J. G. See also:Godwin. Another edition of his Poetical Works (1899) has a See also:preface and bibliography by See also:Alfred See also:Wallis, and a See also:complete edition of his poems by C. E. Boles, with the See also:title Cornish Ballads and other Poems, appeared in 1904.

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