Philip Hawkins (7 March 1701 – 6 September 1738), of

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, near Grampound, Cornwall, was a British politician who sat in the

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from 1727 to 1738. Hawkins was born at

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, the fourth son of Philip Hawkins, a wealthy attorney of Pennance, Cornwall, and his wife Mary Scobell, daughter of Richard Scobell of Menagwins, Cornwall. He was admitted at

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on 7 March 1716, aged 15, and admitted to the

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on 2 March 1717. Trewithen House, near Grampound was purchased in 1715 for £2,700 by Philip Hawkins, presumably Hawkins' father as Hawkins himself was under age, but it became his residence and improvements were made to the house in 1723. Hawkins was returned unopposed as

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for

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at the

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. He was returned again unopposed at the

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. He voted against the Administration on every recorded occasion. Hawkins died without issue at

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on 6 September 1738, leaving Trewithen to his nephew Thomas Hawkins. He also bequeathed '£600 to his Majesty in lieu of his tenants having defrauded the Crown of about that sum in the customs'. His brother

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was Master of Pembroke College, Cambridge between 1728 and 1733.'The colleges and halls: Pembroke', in A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely: Volume 3, the City and University of Cambridge, ed. J P C Roach (London, 1959), pp. 346-355.
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* Alumni Cantabrigienses: A Biographical List of All Known Students, Graduates and Holders of Office at the University of Cambridge, from the Earliest Times to 1900,

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