John Hawker
Of his eight children, his eldest, John Hawker is worthy of mention. He became curate of the ancient local church of Stoke Damerel. A passionate Evangelical like his father he drew criticism from the Bishop and he was removed from the living. The uproar was great and his parishioners went with him and built him another church, St Peter’s. One of Hawker’s grandsons was Robert Stephen Hawker, vicar of Morwenstow, Cornwall (son of Jacob Stephen Hawker). He gained fame as an eccentric Cornish poet. Born in the vicarage of Charles Church and brought up by the Doctor he was remarked on by Tennyson as “beaten at my own game”.
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