Robert Hawker (1753–1827) was an Anglican priest in Devon, vicar of Charles Church, Plymouth. Called "Star of the West" for his popular preaching, he was known as an evangelical and author. The Cornish poet Robert Stephen Hawker was his grandson.
Portrait of Dr Robert Hawker, the most famous Vicar of the Charles Church
Hawker was born in Exeter in 1753 to Jacob Hawker, a surgeon in Exeter. He was married aged 19 to Anna Rains,[1] and they had eight children altogether.
^Whitfeld, Henry Francis (1900). Plymouth and Devonport: in times of war and peace. Plymouth, England: E. Chapple. pp. 493, 742. Retrieved 1 May 2018.
Further readingedit
Comb, George (1827) A Tribute of Respect to Departed Greatness: being the substance of a sermon, delivered on occasion of the decease of the Rev. Robert Hawker, D.D. Vicar of Charles, Plymouth, at Soho Chapel, Oxford Street, London, Lord's day evening, 15 April 1827. London: Ebenezer Palmer
Mutter, George (1827) Zion's Faithful Priest: a sermon, occasioned by the death of the late Rev. Robert Hawker, D.D. Vicar of Charles, Plymouth: delivered on Sunday evening, 22 April 1827, at the Broadway Church, St. Margaret's, Westminster / by the Rev. George Mutter, A.M. minister of Broadway Church. London: Ebenezer Palmer
Palmer, Ebenezer (1826) Prospectus of a handsome, uniform edition of the works of the Rev. Robert Hawker ... London: printed for E. Palmer
Williams, John, minister of Stroud (1831) Memoirs of the Life and Writings of the Rev. Robert Hawker, D.D., late Vicar of Charles, Plymouth. London: E. Justins & Son, printers
External linksedit
My Brethren (organization). . Archived from the original on 14 October 2009. Retrieved 23 May 2009.
Poor Man Devotional). "Robert Hawker Poor Man Devotional". Retrieved 12 June 2009.
Works by Robert Hawker at LibriVox (public domain audiobooks)
January 01, 1970
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