Frederick Ochterloney Taylor Hawkes (22 November 187826 January 1966) was the fourth Bishop of Kingston. Hawkes was educated at Magdalen College, Oxford and was ordained in 1903. He became a curate at St Mary's Church, Portsea, and then

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. In the

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he was commissioned as a Temporary Chaplain to the Forces in May 1918, and was posted to France attached to the

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. By May 1919, he had been promoted to Senior Chaplain with the Guards Division. A report on him referred to his "excellent work as a chaplain". In 1919, he was appointed Rector of Lambeth and Archdeacon of Southwark before his ordination to the

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, a post he held until retirement to

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in 1952. He died in 1966. An obituary contrasted his Victorian garb of frock coat, gaiters and silk hat with his commitment to the back-streets of the diocese which he knew intimately and whose inhabitants he supported conscientiously. Some of his correspondence is housed within

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1878 births Alumni of Magdalen College, Oxford Archdeacons of Southwark Bishops of Kingston 20th-century Church of England bishops 1966 deaths Place of birth missing Place of death missing {{ChurchofEngland-bishop-stub