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 Life of Malone, p. 441). He was buried at Bromley in Kent, where a monument was erected in the church to his memory. Hawkesworth had little learning, but considerable literary talent. So successful was he in the imitation of Johnson's style that Catherine Talbot declared that she discerned Dr. Johnson ‘through all the papers that are not marked A, as evidently as if I saw him through the keyhole with the pen in his hand’ (Carter and Talbot Correspondence, 1809, ii. 109). At the beginning of his career he was an intimate friend of Johnson, and was a member of the Rambler Club, which met weekly at the King's Head in Ivy Lane. The success of the ‘Adventurer,’ according to Hawkins, ‘elated him too much’ (p. 312), and soon after attaining his Lambeth degree his intimacy with Johnson ceased. Malone also records that Sir Joshua Reynolds told him that Hawkesworth was latterly ‘an affected insincere man and a great coxcomb in his dress’ (, Life of Malone, p. 442). Hawkesworth appears to have sat to Sir Joshua Reynolds four times, viz.: in September 1769, January 1770, October 1772, and July 1773 ( and, Life and Times of Sir Joshua Reynolds, 1865, i. 500). The portrait painted in 1773, engraved by J. Watson in mezzotint the same year, was in the possession of Mr. Graves in 1878 (Catalogue of the Winter Exhibition of Old Masters at the Royal Academy, 1878, No. 354). A small portrait of Hawkesworth is prefixed to the nineteenth volume of Chalmers's ‘British Essayists.’ In addition to the works before mentioned, Hawkesworth was the author of ‘The Fall of Egypt: an oratorio as it is performed at the Theatre Royal in Drury Lane. Written by the late John Hawkesworth, LL.D., and set to Musick by John Stanley, M.B.,’ London, 1774, 4to. He also contributed two essays to the ‘Spendthrift,’ both of which are signed ‘Z.,’ the one on ‘Taste’ appearing in No. 8 (17 May 1766), and the other on ‘Painting’ in No. 13 (21 June 1766). Two letters written by Hawkesworth to Dodsley in reference to these essays are bound up in the copy of the ‘Spendthrift’ in the British Museum. 

HAWKESWORTH, WALTER (d. 1606), dramatist, was the second son of Walter Hawkesworth of Hawkesworth, Yorkshire, by his wife Isabel, daughter and coheiress of Thomas Colthurst of Edisforth in the same county. He was matriculated as a pensioner of Trinity College, Cambridge, on 30 March 1588, was elected a scholar in 1589 (B.A. in 1591–2, and M.A. 1595), admitted a minor fellow in October 1593, and a major fellow in April 1595. As a writer and actor of comedies he gained considerable reputation. At the bachelors' commencement of 1602–3 the Latin comedy of ‘Leander,’ of which he was probably the author, was acted at Trinity College for the second time, and another comedy entitled ‘Pedantius’ is said to have been written by him, and to have been then first produced. He represented the principal characters in both these dramas. (His alleged ‘Pedantius’ must be distinguished from the Latin comedy of the name produced at Trinity in February 1580–1, and possibly penned by Edward Forsett [q. v.]). About Michaelmas 1605 Hawkesworth resigned his fellowship. Then he accompanied Sir Charles Cornwallis [q. v.] on his embassy to Spain as secretary, and was soon sent back to England on a special mission by Cornwallis, who wrote to Salisbury that Hawkesworth left him ‘with a body weak, and a mind not very strong.’ In March 1605–6 he returned to Spain, with instructions from the council. He died of the plague at Sir Charles Cornwallis's house in Madrid in October 1606. He was unmarried.

He is the author of: 1. ‘Labyrinthus: Comœdia habita coram Sereniss. Rege Jacobo in Academia Cantabrigiensi,’ 12mo, London, 1636. A manuscript copy is in the library of the university of Cambridge, MS. Ee. 5, 16(3). The representation before the king is supposed to have taken place on his third visit to Cambridge in March 1622–3. 2. A letter to Sir Robert Cotton, in Cotton. MS. Julius, C. iii. 24. 3. Latin verses (signed G. H. C. T.) in the collection on the death of Sir Edward Lewkenor and Susan his wife, 1606. 

HAWKEY, JOHN (1703–1759), classical scholar, a native of Ireland, entered Trinity College, Dublin, in 1720, aged 17, became a scholar in 1722, and graduated in 1725. Hawkey published a translation of the ‘Anabasis’ of Xenophon; established a school in