James Hawkins (bishop)

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James Hawkins was an Irish Anglican bishop in the 18th and 19th centuries.[1][2]

A former Dean of Emly (1766–1775), Hawkins was the Bishop of Dromore from 1775 to 1780 and Bishop of Raphoe from then until his death on 23 June 1807.[3][4]

## Family[edit]

He married Catherine, the daughter of Gilbert Keene and niece of William Whitshed; they had four sons and three daughters. His son James adopted the additional surname of Whitshed and was created first Baronet Whitshed-Hawkins. His son Thomas became Dean of Clonfert in 1812.[5]

## References[edit]

1. ^ Tuesday's Post continued, Jackson's Oxford Journal (Oxford, England), 4 July 1807; Issue 2827
2. ^ Fryde, E. B.; Greenway, D. E.; Porter, S.; Roy, I., (1986), Handbook of British Chronology (Third ed.), Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, ISBN 0-521-56350-X
3. ^ "Community Trees". Archived from the original on 30 March 2012. Retrieved 31 May 2011.
4. ^ Births, Deaths, Marriages and Obituaries, The Morning Post (London, England), 30 June 1807; Issue 11347, 19th Century British Library Newspapers: Part II
5. ^ Burke, Bernard (1812). The genealogy and heraldic history of the landed gentry of Ireland.

Church of Ireland titles

Preceded by

William Newcome

|  Bishop of Dromore
1775–1780  | Succeeded by

William Beresford

Preceded by

John Oswald

|  Bishop of Raphoe
1780–1807  | Succeeded by

John George de la Poer Beresford

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Bishops of Dromore

* Ua Ruanada
* Geraldus
* Andreas
* Tigernach
* Gervasius
* Florentius Mac Donnacáin
* Milo
* Christophorus
* Cornelius
* John
* Thomas Orwell
* John Waltham
* Roger Appleby
* Richard Payl
* John Chourles
* Marcus
* Seaán Ó Ruanadha
* Nicholas Warte
* Thomas Rackelf
* 'William
* David Chirbury
* Thomas Scrope
* Thomas Radcliff
* Donatus Ó h-Anluain
* Richard Messing
* William Egremond
* Aonghus
* Robert Kirk
* Yvo Guillen
* Georgios Vranas
* Tadhg Ó Raghallaigh
* Arthur Magennis
* John Todd
* John Tanner
* Theophilus Buckworth
* Robert Leslie
* Jeremy Taylor
* George Rust
* Essex Digby
* Capel Wiseman
* Tobias Pullen
* John Sterne
* Ralph Lambert
* Charles Cobbe
* Henry Maule
* Thomas Fletcher
* Jemmett Browne
* George Marlay
* John Oswald
* Edward Young
* Henry Maxwell
* William Newcome
* James Hawkins
* William Beresford
* Thomas Percy
* George Hall
* John Leslie
* James Saurin
* see merged to Down, Connor and Dromore

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Bishops of Raphoe

* Conn O'Cahan
* Art O'Gallagher
* Denis Campbell
* George Montgomery
* Andrew Knox
* John Leslie
* Robert Leslie
* Ezekiel Hopkins
* William Smyth
* Alexander Cairncross
* Robert Huntington
* John Pooley
* Thomas Lindsay
* Edward Synge
* Nicholas Forster
* William Barnard
* Philip Twysden
* Robert Downes
* John Oswald
* James Hawkins
* Lord John Beresford
* William Magee
* William Bissett
* united to Derry and Raphoe

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