Frederick Ochterloney Taylor Hawkes (22 November 187826 January 1966) was the fourth Bishop of Kingston.
Hawkes was educated at Magdalen College, OxfordWho was Who 1897-1990 London, A & C Black, 1991 and was ordained in 1903.
He became a curate at St Mary's Church, Portsea, and then Vicar of Aldershot. In the First World War he was commissioned as a Temporary Chaplain to the Forces in May 1918, and was posted to France attached to the Coldstream Guards. By May 1919, he had been promoted to Senior Chaplain with the Guards Division.TNA WO374/31933 A report on him referred to his "excellent work as a chaplain".Index Card Museum of Army Chaplaincy In 1919, he was appointed 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 in 1966.
An obituary contrasted his Victorian garb of frock coat, gaiters and silk hat with his commitment to the back-streets of the diocese which he knew intimately and whose inhabitants he supported conscientiously.Addendum to The Times obituary, 31 January 1966. Times Digital Archive accessed 23 April 2011 Some of his correspondence is housed within The National Archives.Details of collection, National Archives
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