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H doctrine. The meeting took place in the presence of the queen, and Hawarden was thought to have the best of the dispute. He returned to the subject some years later in his ‘Answer to Dr. Clarke and Mr. Whiston.’ He died on 23 April 1735 in London. A mezzotint portrait of Hawarden by Turner was published about 1814.

He wrote: 1. ‘The True Church of Christ, shewed by concurrent Testimonies of Scripture and Primitive Tradition, in answer to … [Leslie's] The Case Stated,’ &c., 1714–1715, 2 vols. 8vo; 2nd edit. 1738. 2. ‘Discourses of Religion, between a Minister of the Church of England and a Country Gentleman,’ 1716, 12mo. 3. ‘The Rule of Faith truly stated in a new and easy Method,’ &c., 1721. 4. ‘Postscript, or a Review of the Grounds already laid,’ 1720. 5. ‘Some Remarks on the Decree of King Augustus II, &c. By H. E.,’ 1726. 6. ‘Charity and Truth; or, Catholicks not uncharitable in saying that none are saved out of the Catholick Communion, because the Rule is not Universal,’ Brussels, 1728, 8vo; a reply to Chillingworth's ‘Religion of Protestants.’ 7. ‘Catholick Grounds, or a Summary and Rational Account of the Unchangeable Orthodoxy of the Catholick Church,’ 1729, 8vo. 8. ‘An Answer to Dr. Clarke and Mr. Whiston concerning the Divinity of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,’ 1729. On the publication of this work Hawarden received the thanks of the university of Oxford for his defence of the Trinity. 9. ‘Wit against Reason, or the Protestant Champion, the great, the incomparable Chillingworth not invulnerable,’ &c., Brussels, 1735, 8vo. A collected edition of his works was published at Dublin in 1808. Several of his unpublished manuscripts are mentioned by Mr. Gillow. 

HAWEIS, THOMAS, M.D. (1734–1820), divine, born at Redruth, Cornwall, on 1 Jan. 1733–4, was baptised on 20 Feb. His father, Thomas Haweis of Chincoose in Kenwyn parish, was a solicitor, who gradually mortgaged all his property, and died at Redruth in October 1753. His mother was Bridgman, only daughter of John Willyams of Carnanton in Mawgan in Pyder, by Bridgman, daughter of Colonel Humphry Noy. Thomas was educated at the Truro grammar school, where he was famous for his oratorical powers and his knowledge of Greek, and at the conclusion of his school days was bound an apprentice to a surgeon-apothecary in that town. On 1 Dec. 1755 he matriculated from Christ Church, Oxford, and was afterwards a member of Magdalen Hall, but he never took any degree in this university. In 1757 he was ordained and appointed chaplain to the Earl of Peterborough, and became curate at St. Mary Magdalen, Oxford. On being removed from St. Mary's by Bishop Hume on account of his methodist sympathies, he became assistant to the Rev. Martin Madan [q. v.] at the Lock Chapel, London. He was from 25 Feb. 1764 till his death rector of Aldwinkle, Northamptonshire. In 1767 Haweis was called on by the patrons to resign this living, on the ground that he had taken it under letters of resignation. This he positively denied, but a lively discussion followed, and at least ten works were printed on the subject. Chief Baron Sir Sidney Stafford Smythe in a letter to Haweis says: ‘In the affair of Aldwinkle you acted with perfect uprightness, and I shall be always ready to declare to it.’ In 1768 he became chaplain to Selina Hastings, countess of Huntingdon, and manager of the college which she had just established at Trevecca in Wales. On Lady Huntingdon's death in 1791 she left him her trustee and executor, and from that time he had the chief management of her numerous chapels. In 1772 he received the degree of LL.B. at Cambridge, becoming a member of Christ's College, and from one of the universities in Scotland he obtained an M.D. degree about this period.

He took a great interest in foreign missions, especially in those to Africa and the South Seas, and was one of the first promoters of the London Missionary Society in 1794, for the benefit of which he preached many sermons. He was a very voluminous writer; upwards of forty works bear his name, and some of these went through numerous editions. Their titles are fully given in the ‘Bibliotheca Cornubiensis.’ Among them are ‘The Communicants' Spiritual Companion,’ 1763, which enjoyed much popularity, and ran to twenty editions; ‘Carmina Christi, or Hymns to the Saviour,’ 1792, a very favourite hymn-book, which went through nine editions; ‘A Translation of the New Testament from the original Greek,’ 1795; ‘The Life of William Romaine,’ 1797; ‘An Impartial and Succinct History of the Rise, Declension, and Revival of the Church of Christ,’ 1800, 3 vols. Dr. Isaac Milner, dean of Carlisle, made a printed reply to this work. Haweis was a great friend of the Rev. John Newton of Olney, whose ‘Authentic Narrative’ he edited in 1764, and an