Sir Robert Shafto Hawks (1768–1840) The armigerous Robert Shafto Hawks became the director of the Hawks company subsequent to the death of his father, of whom he was the eldest surviving son, and was knighted by the
Prince Regent, in 1817, for his suppression of riots. Shafto Hawks died at 4 Clavering Place, Newcastle. There is a memorial to Robert Shafto Hawks, to his wife, and to his son The Rev. William and to his grandson David Shafto, at St Nicholas'
Newcastle Cathedral. His portrait is in
Shipley Art Gallery. Sir Robert in 1790 married Hannah Pembroke Akenhead (1766–1863) by whom he had two sons. Sir Robert's eldest son, The Rev. William, who was educated at
Trinity Hall, Cambridge, at which he received an L. L. B. degree, was the Vicar of
St John's Church, Gateshead Fell, at the vicarage of which, Hawksbury House, which his father built, he lived. Sir Robert's younger son, David Shafto, who was blind, was a
musical prodigy who when aged 9 years composed published marches for military bands, and composed
Tyrolean, and
Scottish, and
Welsh airs. David Hawks was said to have 'a most amazing proof of musical genius and early proficiency' when he was 17 years of age, and to be a 'true musical genius'.
George Hawks (1801–1863) Sir Robert's nephew George Hawks (1801 – 1863), , of Redheugh Hall, who was the armigerous eldest son of John Hawks (1770 – 1830), of Tavistock Square, Their daughter was Jane Diana Hawks (b. 1839) who married William Boyd (b. 1839) who was the eldest son of The Ven. William Boyd (1809 - 1893), of
University College, Oxford, who was Archdeacon of Craven and Honorary Canon of Ripon from 1860, and the elder brother of
The Ven. Charles Twining Boyd, Archdeacon of Columbo. was the son of George Hawks of
Blackheath, London, (1766 - 1820), who was the brother of Sir Robert Shafto Hawks. He married the
armiger Mary Elizabeth Boyd (d. 1884), who was the daughter of William Boyd Junior of the Boyd
merchant banking family, which had founded the
Bank of Newcastle, and who was the brother of the industrialist
Edward Fenwick Boyd. Through her great-grandfather Edward Fenwick, Vicar of Kirkwhelpington, Mary Elizabeth Boyd was a descendant on multiple lines of
Edward III, and a descendant of
Sir Thomas Liddell, 1st Baronet, A detailed biography of Joseph Stanley Hawks can be found in Nigel Tattersfield: 'Bookplates by Beilby & Bewick', The British Library and Oak Knoll Press, 1999, pp. 136–137.
Mary Susannah Hawks (later Moody) (1829 -1901) Joseph Stanley Hawks and Mary Elizabeth Boyd's daughter, Mary Susannah Hawks, married
Major-General Richard Clement Moody, who was the founder of
British Columbia, by whom her children included
Colonel Richard S. Hawks Moody (b. 1854),
Captain Henry de Clervaux Moody (b. 1864), and
Major George Robert Boyd Moody (b. 1868); and her grandchildren included
Major Richard Charles Lowndes MC (b. 1888), and the ethnographer of Aboriginal Australia and
Stonehenge archaeologist Robert Stanley Newall (b. 1884). Mary Susannah Hawks died in 1901. Richard Clement Moody named the 400-foot hill in
Port Coquitlam, "Mary Hill", after his wife Mary Susannah. The Royal British Columbia Museum possesses a trove of 42 letters that were written by Mary Susannah Moody (née Hawks) from the
Colony of British Columbia (1858–66) to her mother and to her sisters, Juliana Stanley Hawks (d. 1868) and Emily Stanley Hawks (d. 1865), that have been of interest to scholars of the
ruling class of the
British Empire.
Richard Stanley Hawks Moody (1854–1930) Colonel Richard Stanley Hawks Moody was a distinguished
British Army officer, and historian, and
Military Knight of Windsor. ==Decline==