Author: Hawke, Martin Bladen Edward
Biography:
HAWKE, Martin Bladen Edward (1777-1839: ancestry.com)
He was born on 10 Apr. 1777 and baptised on 15 May at St. George’s, Bloomsbury, London, grandson of Edward Hawke (1710-81), the naval hero and first Baron Hawke of Towton; and second son of the second Baron, Martin Bladen Hawke, and his wife Cassandra (though the record of baptism reads “Barbara”) Turner, who had married in 1770. He was an elder brother of Annabella Hawke (q.v.). He attended Hammersmith School, where he published a periodical called The Ranger (1794), and went on to St. John’s College, Cambridge (admitted 1797, MA 1799). The hunting theme is continued in his occasional later poems. (Only the expanded third edition [1806] of Howell Wood is long enough to be included in this bibliography.) On 8 Mar. 1815 he married Hannah Nisbet of Mersington, Berwickshire, Scotland. They settled in the West Riding, Yorkshire, and had at least two sons, one of whom--Edward Henry Julius--entered the church but finally succeeded to the barony as the fifth Baron Hawke in 1870. The couple had a second home in Tours, France, where he died on 14 Sept. 1839. His will named his wife Hannah Hawke, “a pattern of affection towards me,” as sole executrix and heir to all his personal property. (ancestry.com 7 Mar. 2022; Joseph Foster, Peerage, Baronetage, and Knightage [1883]; ACAD) HJ
Other Names:
- M. B. E. Hawke
- the Honble. Martin Bladen Hawke