Robert Stephen Hawker

  • About
  • Afterlife
    • A Fisher of Men
    • Devon Worthies
    • Hawker’s Cottage
    • Morwenstowe – Not For Motors
    • Trelawny Again
    • Trelawny’s Pride
  • Articles
    • Hawker of Morwenstowe by H. J. Massingham
    • Henry Sewell Stokes
    • Rev. H. Hugh Breton
    • William Maskell (1814-1890)
  • Books
    • ‘The Vicar’s Wife’ by Lois I. Hartman
    • A Selected Bibliography
    • Hawker of Morwenstow: an essay by J. Ashcroft Noble
  • Contact
  • Free Publications
  • Links
  • News
  • Poems
    • A Riddle from the Pulpit by Robert Peters
    • Gyp My Loving Big Black Pig by Robert Peters
    • Hawker of Morwenstow by Lionel Johnson
    • Lines on the Crew of the Caledonia by John Adams
    • Lines to the Rev. R. S. Hawker Vicar of Morwinstow by David Arrott
    • Morwenstow by Charles Causley
    • Morwenstow by Francis Coutts
    • On the Death of a Poet Priest by F. G. Lee
    • Parson Hawker’s Farewell by Patricia Beer
    • Resurges? by C. E Byles
    • Sonnet by Gamel Woolsey
    • The Plaint of Morwenstow by Henry Sewell Stokes
    • The Sailors by Adelaide Ross
    • To R. S. H. by C. E. Byles
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  • Devonshire Connections

    Devonshire Connections

    Researching Hawker’s Exeter ancestors

    September 8, 2012
  • St Andrew’s, Stratton

    St Andrew’s, Stratton

    Stratton’s ancient parish church and burial place of Jacob Hawker

    July 29, 2012
  • Carrow’s Run

    Carrow’s Run

    A guest article by Hawker Society member Lee Robertson

    June 29, 2012
  • Tonacombe Manor

    Tonacombe Manor

    An outstanding late medieval manor house in Morwenstow parish

    June 12, 2012
  • Charlotte Eliza Hawker (1782-1863)

    Charlotte Eliza Hawker (1782-1863)

    A short biography of Hawker’s first wife

    May 19, 2012
  • ‘The Cell by the Sea’

    ‘The Cell by the Sea’

    A poem by Robert Stephen Hawker

    May 7, 2012
  • ‘The Botathen Ghost’

    ‘The Botathen Ghost’

    Hawker’s most commercially successful short story

    May 2, 2012
  • ‘The Tamar Spring’

    ‘The Tamar Spring’

    A poem by Robert Stephen Hawker

    April 8, 2012
  • St. Nectan’s, Welcombe

    St. Nectan’s, Welcombe

    Welcombe became Hawker’s second parish in 1850

    April 7, 2012
  • Hawker of Morwenstow by H. Hugh Breton

    Hawker of Morwenstow by H. Hugh Breton

    A booklet about Hawker by one of his successors at Morwenstow

    March 1, 2012
  • ‘The Poor Man and His Parish Church’

    ‘The Poor Man and His Parish Church’

    A look at Hawker’s charitable rebellion against the Poor Law

    November 15, 2011
  • Trelawny

    Trelawny

    ‘The Song of the Western Men’ by Robert Stephen Hawker

    August 27, 2011
  • Hawker’s Hut

    Hawker’s Hut

    Beside the shadowy sea…

    July 25, 2011
  • The Wreck of the ‘Caledonia’

    The Wreck of the ‘Caledonia’

    The first major shipwreck of Hawker’s incumbency

    July 24, 2011
  • The Church of St Morwenna and St John The Baptist

    The Church of St Morwenna and St John The Baptist

    Morwenstow’s ancient church

    July 15, 2011
  • ‘Morwennae Statio’

    ‘Morwennae Statio’

    A poem by Robert Stephen Hawker

    June 26, 2011
  • The Well of St John

    The Well of St John

    Morwenstow’s 13th century baptismal well

    April 23, 2011
  • Portraits of R. S. Hawker (1803-75)

    Portraits of R. S. Hawker (1803-75)

    A collection of portraits and some biographical notes

    February 28, 2011
  • The Old Vicarage

    The Old Vicarage

    Hawker’s home for over thirty-five years

    January 31, 2011
  • Robert Stephen Hawker: a timeline

    Robert Stephen Hawker: a timeline

    A chronology of Hawker’s life

    January 15, 2011
  • ‘The Western Shore’

    ‘The Western Shore’

    A poem by Robert Stephen Hawker

    December 30, 2010
  • A brief biography of R. S. Hawker

    The shorter version

    December 20, 2010
  • Finding Hawker at Morwenstow

    Finding Hawker at Morwenstow

    An introduction

    December 17, 2010

Robert Stephen Hawker

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