Person:Richard Hawkins (13)

Research Notes

• Only son of Sir John Hawkins ^{Citation needed}
• Cousin of Sir Francis Drake ^{Citation needed}
• Later In Life Was Known As "the Complete Seaman" ^{Citation needed}
• Eventually, after continued sea action with the Spanish, in 1593/ 1594, following a harrowing trip through the Straits, his forces at an encounter were greatly outnumbered. After a gallant fight, Sir Richard was taken prisoner off the coast of Peru and dishonorably detained in captivity as taken prisoner. (This voyage is recorded and published as The Observations of Sir Richard Hawkins, 1622/1933) He was detained by the Spanish 9 years, held as hostage for Spaniard held in England. He was ransomed for 12,000pds (money he had inherited but that his stepmother was very reluctant to release for the ransom). He returned to England in Jan. 1603. ^{Citation needed}
• Lady Judith survived her husband. On a slated over her vault in the Slapton Church, near the screen on the floor by the Poole pew, to the right of the alter, is inscribed her name and the year of her death 1629.
• As late as 250 years after his death, the village tradition told of how Lady Judith Hawkins walked from the old house of Poole to church, a distance of nearly a mile, on a red velvet carpet which a servant unrolled before her as she walked. Her will was proved by her son. ^{Citation needed}

1.   Richard Hawkins, in Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia.
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   The Dictionary of National Biography
   Edited by Sir Leslie Stephen and Sir Sidney Lee PUBL Oxford University Press

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   Plymouth Armada Heroes
   TITL Plymouth Armada Heroes-The Hawkins Family
   AUTH Miss Mary W.S. Hawkins
   PUBL 1888

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   Hawkins of Plymouth by James A. Williamson

5. ↑ Parents sourced, in Tyler, Lyon Gardiner. Encyclopedia of Virginia Biography. (New York, New York: Lewis Historical Pub. Co., c1915)
   1:8-9.

   ... [Sir John Hawkins] married Katherine, daughter of Benjamin Golson, and his son, Sir Richard Hawkins, an able and distinguished seaman, was member of the council for Virginia in 1607. ...