Jack Hawkes (other)
Jack Hawkes may refer to: *Jack Hawkes (botanist) (1915–2007), British botanist * Jack Hawkes (tennis) (1899–1990), Australian tennis player See also * John Hawkes (other) *John Hawks (other) John Hawks may refer to: *John D. Hawks, American paleoanthropologist *John Twelve Hawks, American science fiction author *John Hawks (architect) (died 1790), British born architect in America *John Milton Hawks (1826–1910), abolitionist, surgeon ...

Jack Hawkes (botanist)
John Gregory Hawkes OBE FLS (27 June 1915 in Bristol – 6 September 2007 in Reading) was a British botanist, Mason Professor of Botany at the University of Birmingham. He was a student at Cambridge University Botany School where obtained his Ph.D. (1941) and Sc.D. (1957). He specialised in studying the taxonomy of wild potato species (''Solanum'' sect. '' Petota''), identified sources of resistance to the potato cyst nematode and played a role in establishing programs to maintain agricultural biodiversity. He was awarded the OBE in the 1994 Birthday Honours. In 1985 he was awarded the Linnean Medal for Botany by the Linnean Society. He treated much of the Solanaceae for Flora Europaea, started the Solanaceae Newsletter and organised the first Symposium on the Solanaceae. At Birmingham he started the M.Sc. course in the Conservation and Utilization of Plant Genetic Resources, which trained international students. Working with Birmingham Natural History Society and Dorothy C ...
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Jack Hawkes (tennis)
John Bailey Hawkes (7 June 1899 – 31 March 1990) was an Australian tennis player who won the singles title at the 1926 Australasian Championships and was ranked No. 10 in the world in 1928. Biography Hawkes was raised and lived his life in and around Geelong, Victoria. Educated at The Geelong College from 1909 to 1919, he showed enormous potential as a young sportsman, having won the Victorian School Boys U19 tennis title for 5 years in a row – described by historian Graeme Kinross Smith as the "nursery for tennis talent". Hawkes had also been touted as a future test cricketer for Australia and was made a member of the MCC at the age of 13. He was captain of the first Cricket team for the last 4 years of his school life at The Geelong College and according to school website, "In a legendary day of bowling in 1916, Jack Hawkes was to claim 10 wickets in a match against Wesley College." Tennis, however, was to create a more powerful pull than cricket. Taught on the lawn cou ...
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John Hawkes (other)
John Hawkes may refer to: *John Hawkes (actor) (born 1959), American film and television actor *John Hawkes (novelist) (1925–1998), postmodern American novelist *John Hawkes (tennis) (1899–1990), Australian tennis player * John Gregory "Jack" Hawkes (1915-2007), British botanist * John Henry Mason Hawkes (1851–1944), South Australian businessman *John Hawkes (horseman), Australian equestrian in the Australian Racing Hall of Fame * John Hawkes (MP) for Bristol (UK Parliament constituency) See also * Jack Hawkes (other) *John Hawk (other) *John Hawke (other) *John Hawks (other) John Hawks may refer to: *John D. Hawks, American paleoanthropologist *John Twelve Hawks, American science fiction author *John Hawks (architect) (died 1790), British born architect in America *John Milton Hawks (1826–1910), abolitionist, surgeon ...