Frederick Hawkes

Who was Frederick Hawkes?

Frederick Ochterloney Taylor Hawkes was the fourth Bishop of Kingston.

Born on 22 November 1878 and educated at Magdalen College, Oxford, he was ordained in 1903. He then became a curate at St Mary's Portsea

following which he was Vicar of Aldershot, Rector of Lambeth and Archdeacon of Southwark before his ordination to the episcopate, a post he held until retirement to Oxted in 1952. He died fourteen years later on 26 January 1966. Some of his correspondence is housed within The National Archives.