John Hawkins (grammarian)

John Hawkins M.D. (c.1587–c.1641) was an English physician, known as a grammarian and translator.[1]

Life

He was a son of Sir Thomas Hawkins (died 1617) of Nash Court, Boughton under Blean, Kent, and his wife, Ann Pettyt; the family was recusant, with Sir Thomas Hawkins and Henry Hawkins the Jesuit being elder brothers. He took his degree of M.D. at the University of Padua.[2]

Hawkins appeared in John Gee's list of Popish Physicians in and about the City of London in 1624 as residing in Charterhouse Court.[2] He was not elected to the College of Physicians of London.[1]

Works

Hawkins published:[2]

  • A brief Introduction to Syntax, collected out of Nebrissa. … With the Concordance supplyed by J. H., London, 1631, translated from Antonio de Nebrija.
  • Discursus de Melancholia Hypochondriaca, Heidelberg, 1633.
  • The Ransome of Time being captive. Wherein is declared how precious a thing is Time, London, 1634, translation from the Spanish of Andreas de Soto.
  • Dictionary of Latin verbs (1634)[1]
  • Particulæ Latinæ Orationis, collectæ, dispositæ, et confabulationibus digestæ, London, 1635, on Latin grammatical particles.
  • Paraphrase upon the seaven Penitential Psalms, London, 1635, translated from Italian.

Family

Hawkins married Frances, daughter of Francis Power of Bletchingdon, Oxfordshire. Francis Hawkins the Jesuit was their son.[2]

Notes

  1. ^ a b c Salmon, Vivian. "Hawkins, John". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/12673. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  2. ^ a b c d Stephen, Leslie; Lee, Sidney, eds. (1891). "Hawkins, John (fl.1635)" . Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 25. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
Attribution

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Stephen, Leslie; Lee, Sidney, eds. (1891). "Hawkins, John (fl.1635)". Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 25. London: Smith, Elder & Co.