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247 Oxford. There is a lithographic portrait of Haworth by Weld Taylor, and the genus Haworthia, a subdivision of Aloë, has been dedicated to him by Duval.

Haworth's works are: 1. ‘Botanical History of Rhus Toxicodendron’ (anon.), in the medical essay on that plant (1793), by his fellow-townsman, Dr. Alderson. 2. ‘Observations on the genus Mesembryanthemum,’ 1794. 3. ‘Prodromus Lepidopterorum Britannicorum: a concise Catalogue … with times and places of appearance, by a Fellow of the Linnean Society,’ 1802, enumerating 793 species. 4. The sixth volume of Andrews's ‘Botanist's Repository,’ which was the work of Haworth (1803). 5. ‘Lepidoptera Britannica,’ 8vo, pt. i. 1803; pt. ii. 1810 (?); and pt. iii. 1812. In 1829 a so-called appendix of 204 pages was published, containing six ‘Dissertationes variæ’ or ‘Miscellanea naturalia,’ all of which are botanical, referring mostly to succulent plants. 6. ‘Synopsis Plantarum Succulentarum,’ London, 1812, 8vo; Haworth's chief botanical work, arranged on the Linnæan system and giving in Latin the description, habitat, date of introduction, and month of flowering of each species; a supplement was issued in 1819, accompanied by ‘Narcissorum Revisio.’ 7. ‘Saxifragearum Enumeratio,’ 1821 (?), 8vo (the preface is dated 1817); to this is appended ‘Revisiones Plantarum Succulentarum,’ pp. 207.

The ‘Transactions of the Entomological Society’ begin in 1807 with a ‘Review of the Rise and Progress of … Entomology in Great Britain’ by him, and the two other parts, viz. those of 1809 and 1812, contain many of his descriptive papers. Between 1823 and 1828 twenty-five papers by Haworth appeared in the ‘Philosophical Magazine,’ and he also contributed to the ‘Transactions’ of the Linnean and Horticultural societies. Between 1812 and 1819 Haworth wrote a poem in twenty-four cantos, entitled ‘Cottingham,’ part only of which was published in a local newspaper, and that part not evincing much poetic power. Though he never travelled beyond his own country, Haworth was a sound naturalist on all subjects, and his contributions to science are of lasting value.

 HAWORTH, SAMUEL (fl. 1683), empiric, was a native of Hertfordshire, and probably the son of William Haworth, who wrote against the Hertford quakers (1676). In 1679 he was a ‘student of physic’ living next door to the Dolphin in Sighs Lane, and dealing in quack tablets and a tincture. He was patronised by the Duke of York (James II), and admitted an extra-licentiate of the College of Physicians on 12 Oct. 1680. His new way of curing consumption was brought to the notice of Charles II, who ordered him to test it on a case (Kennedy O'Brien of the guards), the result being satisfactory. In 1682 he was practising at Brompton, and in request as far off as Paris. In 1683 he informed the College of Physicians that he had obtained the M.D. degree at Paris, and that he was previously a graduate of Cambridge (his name is not in the list of alumni). His ‘True Method of Curing Consumptions, &c.,’ London, 1682, 12mo, is fulsomely dedicated to Charles II, and gives cases of the effects of his grand elixir, pills, powders, &c. His other works are an ‘Aνθροπωλογια’ (sic), London, 1680, 8vo, and a ‘Description of the Duke's Bagnio and of the Mineral Bath, c, London, 1638, 8vo, a Turkish bath in Long Acre, where rubbing was practised, and artificial mineral water made to pass into the ground and issue forth again.

 HAWTREY, EDWARD CRAVEN, D.D. (1789–1862), head-master, and afterwards provost, of Eton College, born at Burnham, four miles from Eton, on 7 May 1789, was the only son of Edward Hawtrey, scholar of King's College, Cambridge, 1760, fellow of Eton 1792, and vicar of Burnham. His mother was a sister of Dr. Foster, head-master of Eton (1765–73). His father's family had been connected with Eton College for nearly three hundred years. Hawtrey entered the school in 1799. Among his contemporaries in the sixth form, under Joseph Goodall [q. v.], the head-master, were Canning, afterwards Viscount Stratford de Redcliffe, and Lonsdale, afterwards bishop of Lichfield, and a little junior to him were Sir John Patteson, Sir John Taylor Coleridge, Lord Ellenborough, and Dean Milman. Hawtrey always ascribed the best part of his intellectual training to his rivalry with such competitors.

In 1807 he was admitted scholar, and three years later fellow, of King's College, Cambridge. At that date the degree of B.A. was conferred on King's men without any university examination. Hawtrey, however, was selected for honourable mention in the examination for the university scholarship, with Patteson, Empson, and Sumner. The provost of King's in 1811 wished to obtain for him the mastership of the Corporation School