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  1. Admiral Sir Richard Hawkins (or Hawkyns) (c. 1562 – 17 April 1622) was a 17th-century English seaman, explorer and privateer. He was the son of Admiral Sir John Hawkins .

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      Signature. Richard Dawkins FRS FRSL (born 26 March 1941) [3]...

  2. Signature. Richard Dawkins FRS FRSL (born 26 March 1941) [3] is a British evolutionary biologist, zoologist, and author. [4] He is an emeritus fellow of New College, Oxford, and was Professor for Public Understanding of Science in the University of Oxford from 1995 to 2008. His 1976 book The Selfish Gene popularised the gene-centred view of ...

  3. Apr 14, 2024 · Sir Richard Hawkins (born c. 1560—died April 18, 1622, London) was an English seaman and adventurer whose Observations in His Voyage Into the South Sea (1622) gives the best extant idea of Elizabethan life at sea and was used by Charles Kingsley for Westward Ho!. The only son of the famed seaman Sir John Hawkins by his first marriage, Richard ...

  4. Richard Hawkins (born 1961 in Mexia, Texas) is an American artist. [1] He lives and works in Los Angeles. [1] His works are held by museums including the Whitney Museum of American Art, [2] [1] the Museum of Modern Art, [3] and the Art Institute of Chicago. [4]

  5. Sir Richard Hawkins wrote the most delightful of Elizabethan seafaring books. He was also the last member of the remarkable dynasty that made Plymouth what it became in the sixteenth century: the leading port for oceanic voyages – of trade, discovery, war, privateering – into the Atlantic and beyond. In voyages of discovery to the New World ...

  6. Sir Richard Hawkins was his son by his first wife, Katherine Gonson, daughter of the previous Treasurer of the Navy. Richard was born in 1560, and first appears in his uncle William's successful voyage of 1582, which returned with rich booty from Spanish captures, sugar and hides, pearls and some treasure. Then, in Brake's brilliant campaign of ...

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  8. Mar 27, 2024 · Admiral Sir Richard Hawkins (or Hawkyns) (c. 1562 – 17 April 1622) was a 17th-century English seaman, explorer and Elizabethan "Sea Dog", and the son of Admiral Sir John Hawkins. Biography. He was from his earlier days familiar with ships and the sea, and in 1582 he accompanied his uncle, William Hawkins, to the West Indies.

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