John Hawkes (MP)
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 ...

John Hawkes (actor)
John Marvin Perkins (born September 11, 1959), known professionally as John Hawkes, is an American actor. He is the recipient of several accolades, including two Independent Spirit Awards, and has been nominated for an Academy Award and a Golden Globe Award. Hawkes is known for his roles in the films ''Winter's Bone'' (2010) and '' The Sessions'' (2012), for which he was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor and a Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Motion Picture Drama, respectively. Some of his other film credits include ''From Dusk till Dawn'' (1996), '' The Perfect Storm'' (2000), ''Me and You and Everyone We Know'' (2005), '' American Gangster'' (2007), ''Martha Marcy May Marlene'' (2011), ''Lincoln'' (2012) and ''Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri'' (2017). He has also appeared in many television series, notably '' Deadwood'' (2004–2006) and '' Eastbound & Down'' (2009–2013). Early life Hawkes was born John Marvin Perkins in Alexandria, Minn ...
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John Hawkes (novelist)
John Hawkes, born John Clendennin Talbot Burne Hawkes, Jr. (August 17, 1925 – May 15, 1998), was a postmodern American novelist, known for the intensity of his work, which suspended some traditional constraints of narrative fiction. Biography Born in Stamford, Connecticut, Hawkes was educated at Harvard College, where fellow students included John Ashbery, Frank O'Hara, and Robert Creeley. Although he published his first novel, '' The Cannibal'', in 1949, it was ''The Lime Twig'' (1961) that first won him acclaim. Thomas Pynchon is said to have admired the novel. His second novel, ''The Beetle Leg'' ( 1951), an intensely surrealistic Western set in a Montana landscape, came to be viewed by many critics as one of the landmark novels of 20th-century American literature. Hawkes took inspiration from Vladimir Nabokov and considered himself a follower of the Russian-American translingual author. Nabokov's story "Signs and Symbols" was on the reading list for Hawkes' writin ...
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John 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 cour ...
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John Gregory "Jack" Hawkes
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 Dor ...
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John Henry Mason Hawkes
John Henry Mason Hawkes (9 July 1851 – 5 May 1944) was a businessman in the early days of Adelaide, South Australia History Hawkes was born in Goodwood, South Australia, the eldest surviving son of John Henry Mason Hawkes (c. 1827 – 14 October 1858) and his wife Frances Sarah Ann Hawkes, née Symonds (c. 1831 – 15 February 1902). Both were early settlers; Hawkes aboard ''Gratitude'' in August 1848, and Frances Sarah Anne Symonds on ''Marion'' in February 1849. They married later that same year. She was in 1880 to marry again, to the recently widowed William Henville Burford. Hawkes grew up in Port Adelaide, and like his brother James attended Adelaide Educational Institution, but unlike him was not a prize-winning student. In 1871 he began marketing writing ink and branding inks (used with a stencil for labelling bales of wool etc.), manufactured at premises at 88 Currie Street, then the following year moved to Coromandel Place, off Grenfell Street, where his four or f ...
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John Hawkes (horseman)
John Hawkes is an Australian Thoroughbred racehorse trainer who is notable for heading: * the national trainers' premiership ten times * the Sydney premiership nine times (1993/94, 94/95, 95/96, 97/98, 98/99, 99/2000, 2003/04, 05/06, 06/07) * leading Group One trainer six times * leading stakes-winning trainer nine times. Hawkes started in the racing industry in Adelaide as an apprentice jockey. From 1989 to the mid 2000s, John Hawkes managed stables in Adelaide, Brisbane, Sydney and Melbourne for Bob and Jack Ingham. In 2004 Hawkes was inducted into the Australian Racing Hall of Fame. He is also inducted into the South Australian Racing Hall of Fame. In 2007 Hawkes left the Ingham operation and has subsequently trained in partnership with his sons Michael and Wayne. Notable horses and victories Hawkes has trained, or co-trained, a large number of high-class horses, including: * Accomplice, winner of the 1997 Doomben 10,000 * All Too Hard, winner of the 2012 Caulf ...
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Australian Racing Hall Of Fame
The Australian Racing Hall of Fame is part of the Australian Racing Museum which documents and honours the horseracing legends of Australia. The museum officially opened in 1981 and created the Hall of Fame in 2000. The numbers in brackets after each name indicates the year of induction into the Hall of Fame. Racehorses * Abercorn (2018) * Ajax (2004) * Amounis (2006) * Aquanita (2018) * Archer (2017) * Balmerino (2019) * Beau Vite (2021) * Bernborough (Inaugural - 2001) * Better Loosen Up (2004) * Black Caviar (2013) * Briseis (2015) * Carbine (Inaugural - 2001) * Chatham (2005) * Choisir (2015) * Comic Court (2009) * Crisp (2013) * Dalray (2015) * Danehill (2015) * Delta (2013) * Dulcify (2014) * Eurythmic (2005) * Flight (2007) * Galilee (2005) * Gloaming (2004) * Grand Flaneur (2007) * Gunsynd (2005) * Hall Mark (2019) * Heroic (2003) * High Caste (2012) * Karasi (2018) * Kingston Town (Inaugural - 2001) * Leilani (2016) * Let's Elope (2012) * Light Fingers ...
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John Hawkes (MP)
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 ...

Bristol (UK Parliament Constituency)
Bristol was a two-member constituency, used to elect members to the House of Commons in the Parliaments of England (to 1707), Great Britain (1707–1800) and the United Kingdom (from 1801). The constituency existed until Bristol was divided into single member constituencies in 1885. Boundaries The historic port city of Bristol, is located in what is now the South West Region of England. It straddles the border between the historic geographical counties of Gloucestershire and Somerset. It was usually accounted as a Gloucestershire borough in the later part of the 19th and the 20th centuries. The parliamentary borough of Bristol was represented in Parliament from the 13th century, as one of the most important population centres in the Kingdom. Namier and Brooke comment that in 1754 the city was the second largest in the Kingdom and had the third largest electorate for an urban seat. From the 1885 United Kingdom general election the city was divided into four single member seats. ...
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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 ...

John Hawk (other)
John Hawk or Johnny Hawk may refer to: * John D. Hawk (1924–2013), U.S. Army soldier and Medal of Honor recipient *John Layfield (born 1966), American professional wrestler whose stage names included John Hawk and Johnny Hawk *John Hawk, fictional character portrayed by Burt Reynolds in the American television series ''Hawk'' *Johnny Hawk, an alternate name for British electronic musician Global Goon See also *John Hawke (other) *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 ...

John Hawke (other)
John Hawke may refer to: *Sir Anthony Hawke (John Anthony Hawke, 1869–1941), English politician and judge * Johnny Hawke (1925–1992), Australian rugby league footballer * John D. Hawke Jr. (1933–2022), U.S. Department of Treasury official See also *John Hawk (other) *John Hawkes (other) *John Hawks (other) *St. John Hawke, fictional character from the American television series ''Airwolf ''Airwolf'' is an American action military drama television series that centers on a high-technology military helicopter, code-named ''Airwolf'', and its crew. The show follows them as they undertake various exotic missions, many involving esp ...