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Hawker (surname)
Hawker is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: * Charles Hawker (1894–1938), member of the Australian House of Representatives from 1929 to 1938 *Craig Hawker (born 1964), Australian chemist * Dave Hawker (born 1958), English former footballer *David Hawker (born 1949) member of the Australian House of Representatives since 1983 * Edward Hawker (1782–1860), British Royal Navy admiral *Edward William Hawker (1850-1940), politician in colonial South Australia *George Charles Hawker (1818–1895), South Australian politician and pastoralist *George Stanley Hawker (1894–1979), Australian politician *Glenn Hawker (born 1961), former Australian rules footballer *Harry Hawker (1889–1921), Australian pioneering aviator, test pilot and founder of Hawker Aviation * Hugh Hawker, English Member of Parliament * James Hawker (died 1827), (British Army officer) * James Hawker (1836-1921), English poacher *James Collins Hawker (1821-1901), English-born explorer and settler in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Hawker
Charles Allan Seymour Hawker (16 May 1894 – 25 October 1938) was an Australian politician. He was a member of the Australian House of Representatives for Wakefield from 1929 until his accidental death in 1938, representing the Nationalist Party (1929–1931) and its successor the United Australia Party (1931–1938). He was Minister for Repatriation and Minister for Markets (later Commerce) in the Lyons government from 1931 to 1932. Early life and war service Hawker was born at Bungaree homestead, near Clare, South Australia. He was the second son of Michael Seymour Hawker, manager of the Hawker family stations, and his wife Elizabeth Begg, née McFarlane, and grandson of George Charles Hawker. Hawker was educated at Geelong Grammar School, and Trinity College, Cambridge, earning Bachelor and Master of Arts degrees in 1919 and 1922, respectively. While studying at Cambridge, he enlisted for service in World War I on 11 August 1914, and was commissioned as a temporary lieut ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lanoe Hawker
Lanoe George Hawker, (30 December 1890 – 23 November 1916) was a British flying ace of the First World War. Having seven credited victories, he was the third pilot to receive the Victoria Cross, the highest decoration for gallantry awarded to British and Commonwealth servicemen. He was killed in a dogfight with the famous German flying ace Manfred von Richthofen ("The Red Baron"), who described him as "the British Boelcke".Burrows 1970, p. 103. Early life Hawker was born on 30 December 1890 at Longparish, Hampshire, England, to Lieutenant Henry Colley Hawker, R.N., and Julia Gordon Lanoe Hawker, daughter of Major Peter William Lanoe Hawker, of the 74th Highlanders and sister of the author Mary Elizabeth Hawker ("Lanoe Falconer"). His parents were distant cousins; Hawker's father was of a cadet branch of the family resident in Australia since his own father, George Charles Hawker (son of Royal Navy Admiral Edward Hawker), emigrated in 1839, being elected Speaker of th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Hawker
Thomas Hawker (died 1699 or c.1722) was an English portrait painter. There is little clear historical information about Hawker. George Vertue recorded that Hawker moved into Sir Peter Lely's house after the latter's death in 1680, in the hope of benefiting from the famous associations of the address.''Dictionary of National Biography'', 1891 More recently, Ellis Waterhouse suggested that Hawker had been one of Lely's chief assistants. A full-length portrait of Charles II, believed to be by Hawker, is in the National Portrait Gallery in London. The attribution was made on the basis of comparisons with Hawker's full-length depiction of the king's son, Henry FitzRoy, 1st Duke of Grafton, at Euston Hall. The painting of Grafton was reproduced in a mezzotint by Isaac Beckett and his portrait of Titus Oates Titus Oates (15 September 1649 – 12/13 July 1705) was an English priest who fabricated the " Popish Plot", a supposed Catholic conspiracy to kill King Charles II. Ear ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
