Sir Joseph Henry Hawley
Bt. (1813–75) was a noted English
thoroughbred
The Thoroughbred is a horse breed best known for its use in horse racing. Although the word ''thoroughbred'' is sometimes used to refer to any breed of purebred horse, it technically refers only to the Thoroughbred breed. Thoroughbreds are c ...
race horse
Horse racing is an equestrian performance sport, typically involving two or more horses ridden by jockeys (or sometimes driven without riders) over a set distance for competition. It is one of the most ancient of all sports, as its basic pr ...
owner and breeder.
Life
Hawley was born in
Harley Street
Harley Street is a street in Marylebone, Central London, which has, since the 19th century housed a large number of private specialists in medicine and surgery. It was named after Edward Harley, 2nd Earl of Oxford and Earl Mortimer.< ...
, London, on 27 October 1813 , the eldest in a family of ten children. His parents were
Sir Henry Hawley, 2nd Baronet, who died in 1831, and his wife Catherine Elizabeth Shaw, daughter of
Sir John Gregory Shaw, 5th Baronet.
In his early career Hawley trained privately at
Fyfield in Wiltshire. Four of his horses won
The Derby:
Teddington
Teddington is a suburb in south-west London in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames. In 2021, Teddington was named as the best place to live in London by ''The Sunday Times''. Historically in Middlesex, Teddington is situated on a long m ...
(1851),
Beadsman
Bedesman, or beadsman (Med. Eng. ''bede'', prayer, from O. Eng. ''biddan'', to pray; literally "a man of prayer"; and from Anglo Saxon "bed"), was generally a pensioner or almsman whose duty was to pray for his benefactor.
Function
A Bedesman (o ...
(1858),
Musjid (1859) and
Blue Gown
Blue Gown (1865 – November 25, 1880) was a British Thoroughbred racehorse that was the winner of the 1868 Epsom Derby and Ascot Gold Cup. He was one of the best colts of his generation at two, three years and four of age, but his form de ...
(1868). Other classic horseracing wins were Fitz-Roland in the 1858
2,000 Guineas
The 2000 Guineas Stakes is a Group 1 flat race in Great Britain open to three-year-old thoroughbred colts and fillies. It is run on the Rowley Mile at Newmarket over a distance of 1 mile (1,609 metres) and scheduled to take place each year at ...
, Aphrodite in the 1851
1,000 Guineas
The 1000 Guineas Stakes is a Group 1 flat horse race in Great Britain open to three-year-old fillies. It is run on the Rowley Mile at Newmarket over a distance of 1 mile (1,609 ...
, Miami in the 1847
Oaks and Pero Gomez in the 1869
St Leger
The St Leger Stakes is a Group 1 flat horse race in Great Britain open to three-year-old thoroughbred colts and fillies. It is run at Doncaster over a d ...
. He thus won all five
English Classics. He was the breeder of the 1874
Belmont Stakes
The Belmont Stakes is an American Grade I stakes race for three-year-old Thoroughbreds run at Belmont Park in Elmont, New York. It is run over 1.5 miles (2,400 m). Colts and geldings carry a weight of ; fillies carry . The race, nicknamed Th ...
winner
Saxon
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Hawley served as
High Sheriff of Kent
The high sheriff is the oldest secular office under the Crown (prior to 1974 the office previously known as sheriff)."Sheriffs appointed for a county or Greater London shall be known as high sheriffs, and any reference in any enactment or instrum ...
for 1844. He disposed of land in
Shropshire
Shropshire (; alternatively Salop; abbreviated in print only as Shrops; demonym Salopian ) is a landlocked historic county in the West Midlands region of England. It is bordered by Wales to the west and the English counties of Cheshire to th ...
, in the family since the 1st baronet married Dorothy Ashwood of
Madeley.
Family
Hawley, then of
Leybourne
Leybourne is a small village and civil parish in Kent, England situated off Junction 4 of the M20 Motorway. Leybourne is adjacent to New Hythe, Larkfield and West Malling. As of 2020 Leybourne Parish had a population of 4,372.
Historically, the ...
Grange, Kent, married on 18 June 1839, at St George's Hanover Square, Sarah Diana, third daughter of General Sir John Gustavus Crosbie, GCH, of Watergate House, Up Marden, Chichester, Sussex (1765-1843). They had three daughters: Mabel-Diana (died 12 April 1852); Mildred-Catherine (died 1902) who married
Captain Barrington Campbell, Scots Guards (later Lord Blythswood); and Morna-Georgina (died 1919), who married 25 June 1874 Percy-Fitzhardinge Raymond-Barker of Fariford Park, county Gloucestershire (died 1895).
The novelist
Henry Hawley Smart
Henry Hawley Smart (1833–1893) was an English army officer and novelist, who wrote as Capt. Hawley Smart. He was praised for his realistic racing and hunting scenes, and depictions of military incidents.
Family
Smart was born in Dover, Kent o ...
, Hawley's nephew,
[Burke's Peerage, 1880] set several of his books in the racing world.
See also
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Hawley baronets
There have been two baronetcies created for persons with the surname Hawley, one in the Baronetage of England and one in the Baronetage of Great Britain.
The Hawley Baronetcy, of Buckland in the County of Somerset, was created in the Baronetage ...
References
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1813 births
1875 deaths
British racehorse owners and breeders
Owners of Epsom Derby winners
High Sheriffs of Kent