Dennis Hawker

Dennis Gascoyne Hawker (8 February 1921 – 31 January 2003) was the eighth Bishop of Grantham.^[1]

Educated at Addey and Stanhope School and Queens' College, Cambridge,^[2] Hawker served in the Royal Marines during the Second World War before he was made a deacon on Trinity Sunday 1950 (4 June)^[3] and ordained a priest the next Trinity Sunday (20 May 1951) — both times by Geoffrey Fisher, Archbishop of Canterbury at Canterbury Cathedral.^[4] His first post was as a curate at St Mary and St Eanswythe's Church, Folkestone,^[5] after which he was Vicar of St Mark, South Norwood.^[6] From 1960 he was St Hugh’s Missioner for the Diocese of Lincoln and later became Vicar of St Mary and St James, Great Grimsby before appointment to the episcopate. He was consecrated by Michael Ramsey, Archbishop of Canterbury, on 29 September 1972 at Westminster Abbey;^[7] he died on 31 January 2003.

References

1. "The Rt Rev Dennis Hawker". The Daily Telegraph. Archived from the original on 24 March 2016.
2. "Who was Who" 1897–2007 London, A & C Black, 2007 ISBN 978-0-19-954087-7
3. "Ordinations at Trinity". Church Times. No. 4557. 9 June 1950. p. 437. ISSN 0009-658X. Retrieved 9 October 2019 – via UK Press Online archives.
4. "Trinity ordinations". Church Times. No. 4607. 25 May 1951. p. 357. ISSN 0009-658X. Retrieved 9 October 2019 – via UK Press Online archives.
5. Details of church
6. Crockford's Clerical Directory 1975–76 London: Oxford University Press, 1976 ISBN 0-19-200008-X
7. "picture caption". Church Times. No. 5721. 6 October 1972. p. 3. ISSN 0009-658X. Retrieved 9 October 2019 – via UK Press Online archives.

Church of England titles
Preceded by Ross Hook	Bishop of Grantham 1972–1987	Succeeded by Bill Ind