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JOURNAL OF THE PLYMOUTH INSTITUTION. 
SIR JOHN HAWKINS, SAILOE AND STATESMAN. 
SYLLABUS OF LECTURE BY MR. R. N. WORTH, F.G.S. 
(Read March 29th, 1883.) 
In this paper the ancestry of the Hawkins family was traced, and 
in addition to Sir John Hawkins, sketches given of the lives of 
his father, " old William Hawkins," the first English trader to 
Brazil, and pioneer of our South Sea enterprise ; William Hawkins, 
his brother; Sir Richard Hawkins, his son, the "complete sea- 
man;" and William Hawkins, his nephew, founder of the first 
trading house of the East India Company at Surat. The materials 
were largely drawn from the local municipal records, and it em- 
bodied many hitherto unpublished details in the history of this 
greatest of English sailor and merchant families. 
