Sir Edward Anthony Hawke (26 July 1895 – 25 September 1964) was a British judge and the

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from 1954 to 1959 and

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from 1959 to 1964.Fred E. Pritchard, ‘Hawke, Sir (Edward) Anthony (1895–1964)’, rev. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 200
accessed 9 Dec 2016
/ref> The son of the judge Sir John Anthony Hawke (1869–1941) and Winifred Edith Laura (née Stevens), he was educated at

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and in 1914 went to

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. He left Magdalen to serve during

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and after did not return to Oxford, instead studying law. He was called to the

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by the

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in 1920 and joined the Western Circuit and the Devon sessions. He married the widow Evelyn Audrey Lee Davies (1905/6–1977) in 1931 and they had a daughter. His practice was mainly centred at the Central Criminal Court where he was junior prosecuting counsel in 1932, third senior prosecuting counsel in 1937, second senior prosecuting counsel in 1942, and senior prosecuting counsel from 1945 to 1950. Here among others he prosecuted the murderers

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and Daniel Raven. Hawke was the

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from 1939 to 1950 and the Deputy Chairman of the Hertfordshire Quarter Sessions from 1940 to 1950. He became a

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of his Inn in 1942 and in 1950 was appointed Chairman of the County of London

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. In 1954 he was

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Honour of knighthood
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'' 1 January 1954 pg 2 and in the same year he succeeded

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, the senior Circuit Judge at the Central Criminal Court, hearing trials of criminal offences. One of the last cases he tried as Recorder at the Old Bailey was that of

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who was accused of perjury. In 1962 Hawke became Treasurer of his

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. He had an enthusiastic interest in

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and also enjoyed golf. He was the editor of the fifteenth edition of ''Roscoe's Criminal Evidence''. Hawke died in Italy on 25 September 1964 while on holiday at

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. He was succeeded as

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