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Author: Hankinson, Thomas E.

Biography:

HANKINSON, Thomas Edwards (1805-43: ODNB)

He was born on 19 June 1805 at Lynn (now King's Lynn), the fourth of six children of the Rev. Robert Hankinson (1769-1863) and his wife Ann Edwards (1770-1837) who had married in 1794. His father was educated at Trinity, Cambridge, but he went to Corpus Christi (BA 1828, MA 1831). He won the Seatonian Prize  a record nine times., mostly on historical and biblical subjects. He married Caroline Peacock on 4 June 1831 at Stainton, Durham, where her father the Rev. D. M. Peacock was Rector. At the time of his marriage he purchased his MA for £40 and wrote that it “has completely broken the staff of bread, and if I cannot live on honour . . . for the next quarter, I must take my choice between starvation and imprisonment” (Sketch). They had at least six children and struggled financially. From 1829 to 1835, he was curate at St. Nicholas, Lynn, then minister of St. Matthew’s Chapel, Denmark Hill, Surrey, 1835-1843. In addition to the works listed, he continued to submit poems for the Seatonian Prize up until his death. His poetry was collected by his brothers, probably Revds. Robert Edwards and Edward Francis Edwards Hankinson, in Poems (1844) which went through several editions. They also collected his Sermons (1844) and letters in Sketch of the Life of T. E. Hankinson (1861-62). He died at Stanley Hall, Ripon, on 6 Oct. 1843. (ODNB 6 Oct. 2020; ancestry.co.uk 6 Oct. 2020; CCEd; Stamford Mercury 17 June 1831; Bury and Norwich Post 8 Feb. 1837; GM Dec. 1843, 661; Illustrated London News 31 Jan. 1863; Sketch of the life of T. E. Hankinson [1861-2]) AA

 

Other Names:

  • T. E. Hankinson
  • the Rev. Thomas E. Hankinson
 

Books written (9):

Cambridge: printed by James Hodson, 1827
[Cambridge]: [1827]
Cambridge/ London/ Oxford: J. Smith, Deightons, Stevenson, Newby, and Hall/ Rivingtons/ Parker and Talboys, 1831
Cambridge/ London: J. Smith, and Deightons and Stevenson/ John W. Parker, 1832
Cambridge/ London/ Lynn: John Smith, and Deightons and Stevenson/ John W. Parker/ the booksellers, 1833
Cambridge/ London/ Lynn: Deightons; Stevenson/ John W. Parker/ the booksellers, 1834
Cambridge/ London: Deightons and Stevenson/ John W. Parker, 1835