James Hawker (British Army officer)

Colonel James Hawker, C.B. (1773 – 12 October 1827)[1] was a British Royal Artillery officer during the Napoleonic Wars.

Biography

Hawker was appointed first lieutenant in the Royal Artillery (R.A.) in 1794, captain lieutenant in 1799, captain in 1803, brevet major in 1811, lieutenant colonel R.A. 1815, and colonel in 1825.[2][3] He was a Companion of the Bath.[3]

Hawker served in the Peninsular War in Spain and Portugal, and was present at the battle of Albuhera for which he received a medal.[4] In 1815 served at the Battle of Waterloo.[2] and the storming of Cambrai during the advance on Paris.[5] Afterwards he was commander of the Royal Artillery in the Plymouth district, and was Lieutenant Governor of Gravesend and Tilbury. He died in October 1827 at Woolwich (then in Kent and now in London).[2]

Notes
  1. London, England, Church of England Deaths and Burials, 1813-2003
  2. Urban 1827, p. 476.
  3. Philippart 1820, pp. 88–89.
  4. Anonymous 1828, p. 260.
  5. Siborne 1848, pp. 678–679.

References
  • Anonymous, ed. (1828), Annual Register, or a view of the History Politics, and Literature of the year 1827, 69, Baldwin and Cradock and C. and J. Rivington, p. 260
  • Philippart, John, ed. (1820), The Royal Military Calendar, Or Army Service and Commission Book:..., 5 (3rd in five volumes ed.), A.J. Valpy, sold by T. Egerton, pp. 88–89
  • Siborne, William (1848), The Waterloo Campaign, 1815 (4th ed.), Westminster: A. Constable
  • Urban, Sylvanus, ed. (1827), The Gentlemen's Magazine and Historical Chronicle. From July to December 1827, p. 476
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