About Francis Hawkins
Lived 1628 – 1681 (aged 52–53). Francis Hawkins was a translator.
Francis Hawkins (1628–1681) was an English Jesuit, known as a child prodigy and translator.
Life Hawkins is notable for two translations he made while quite young. He later had a long career among the English speaking Jesuits in exile. His father was the grammarian and physician John Hawkins; Sir Thomas Hawkins and the Jesuit leader Henry Hawkins were his uncles.
It is possible that the latter work was translated earlier, and only published in 1641: there are internal references to its being the first translation by Hawkins. Youths Behaviour was popular and ran to ten editions by 1672. Robert Codrington wrote Youths Behaviour, or, Decency in Conversation amongst Women in 1664.
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Who was Francis Hawkins?
English Jesuit and translator
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Francis Hawkins was born in 1628.
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Francis Hawkins died in 1681.
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Francis Hawkins was a translator.
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· DBpedia: Francis Hawkins (Jesuit)
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