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 dicus,’ and styled ‘A Review of the Works of the Rev. W. Hawkins and of the Remarks made on the same in the “Critical Review” for August and in the “Monthly Review” for September 1759.’ Goldsmith rejoined in the ‘Critical Review’ (Works, ed. J. W. M. Gibbs, iv. 399–403). The translation by Hawkins of the first six books of the ‘Æneid,’ which appeared in 1764, is now a scarce volume. It was pointed out by Professor Conington that a copy of it could not be consulted either at the British Museum, the Bodleian Library, or at Pembroke College (, Miscellaneous Writings, i. 160). Though the translation of the rest of the books was ready for the press, the reception given to the first portion did not warrant the printing of the remainder. Hawkins's failures did not restrain him from issuing in 1781 a collection of ‘Poems on Various Subjects.’ Hawkins was an indefatigable writer of sermons, and he printed: 1. ‘A Sermon before the University of Oxford on 30 Jan.,’ 1752. 2. ‘The Nature, Extent, and Excellence of Christian Charity’ (a Colston sermon), 1755. 3. ‘The Reasonableness of our Belief in Christianity’ (two sermons at St. Mary's, Oxford), 1756. 4. ‘Pretences of Enthusiasts considered and confuted’ (two sermons preached at St. Mary's, one on 26 June 1768 and the other on 6 Aug. 1769). The first was answered by ‘The Oxford Confutation confuted, by Philologos,’ Cambridge [1769]. 5. ‘Discourses on Scripture Mysteries’ (Bampton lectures, 1787, which led him into a controversy with Samuel Palmer on the proceedings of the dissenters). 6. ‘Regal Rights consistent with National Liberties,’ 1795.

[Gent. Mag. 1801, pt. ii. p. 966; Foster's Alumni Oxon. ii. 630; Woolrych's Serjeants, ii. 512–13; Blore's Rutland, p. 12; Hutchins's Dorset, 1864, ii. 273; Le Neve's Fasti, i. 207, iii. 529; Burke's Commoners, ii. 215; Biog. Dramatica, i. 319–20, ii. 149, 291, iii. 269; Notes and Queries, 2nd ser. xii. 163–4, 196, 217; Boswell's Johnson, ed. Hill, i. 75.]  HAWKSHAW, BENJAMIN (d. 1738), divine, was born in Dublin, and entered Trinity College in 1687. He left Ireland upon the revolution, and entered St. John's College, Cambridge; graduated B.A. there in 1691, and subsequently returned to Dublin, where he proceeded B.A. in 1693 and M.A. two years afterwards. He took orders, and was appointed to the parish of St. Nicholas-within-the-Walls at Dublin. He died in 1738. He was author of an octavo volume entitled ‘Poems upon Several Occasions,’ which was ‘printed by J. Heptinstall for Henry Dickinson, Bookseller in Cambridge,’ in 1693. In the dedicatory letter to ‘the Learned and Ingineous Dr. Willoughby,’ prefixed to the volume, the poet describes his effusions as ‘the essays but of a very young pen, a few by-thoughts in my vacancies from Irish studies.’ He also published in 1709 ‘The Reasonableness of constant Communion with the Church of England represented to the Dissenters.’

[Ware's Writers of Ireland, p. 291; Cat. Huth Libr.; Cat. of Grad. Univ. Dubl.; Grad. Cantabr.]  HAWKSMOOR, NICHOLAS (1661–1736), architect, was born at East Drayton, or at Ragenhill, or Ragnall, in Nottinghamshire, in 1661, and became at the age of eighteen ‘the scholar and domestic clerk’ of Sir Christopher Wren. By him he was employed as ‘superviser of the erection of the palace at Winchester (23 March 1683–February 1684–5), and as deputy-surveyor at Chelsea College or Hospital (12 March 1682–90), where he received 10l. ‘for drawing designs for ye hospitall’ (, Papers, p. 42). He was appointed in 1698 clerk of the works at Greenwich Hospital at a salary of 5s. per day, and became deputy-surveyor in 1705. He was largely responsible for the construction, from the designs of Jones, Wren, and Vanbrugh, of the north-west (or Charles) block; of the opposite (or Anne) block, 1698–1728; of the south-west (or William) block, 1698–1703; of the west front, 1716–26; and of the colonnades on both sides, 1699–1728. The south-east (or Mary) block was begun in 1735 under his direction, but was not completed till 1752 (drawings in Sir John Soane's Museum, with manuscript statement of accounts to September 1727; engraved ‘Plan General of the Royal Hospital at Greenwich. N. Hawksmoor, Archt,’ in R.I.B.A. Library).

Wren, as surveyor-general of the board of works, obtained for Hawksmoor the post of clerk of the works at Kensington Palace on 25 Feb. 1690–1, and this office Hawksmoor held till 4 May 1715. Under Wren's superintendence he added the portion of the south front containing the King's Gallery and the Duchess of Kent's apartments. On 4 May 1715 he succeeded to the office of clerk of the works at Whitehall, St. James's, and Westminster, at a salary of 90l. per annum. He resigned the post 24 Sept. 1718 to become secretary to the board at 100l. per annum. He was further appointed (1726) ‘deputy comptroller’ for a few months during the illness of Sir J. Vanbrugh, and while still secretary became deputy-surveyor (June 1735). He was ‘draftsman’ to the board of works at Windsor and Greenwich at the time of his death, and was succeeded by