About Horace Dawkins
Lived 1867 – 1944 (aged 76). Horace Dawkins was a civil servant.
Sir Horace Christian Dawkins (25 December 1867 – 4 February 1944) was a British civil servant who served as a clerk in the Parliament of the United Kingdom.
He was educated at Eton College and Balliol College, Oxford. During the First World War he served as a Divisional Commander in the Metropolitan Special Constabulary, and was made a Member of the Order of the British Empire on 7 January 1918.
Dawkins was appointed a Companion of the Order of the Bath in the 1925 Birthday Honours while a Clerk Assistant. Between 1930 and 1937 he served as Clerk of the House of Commons, and he was appointed a Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath on 31 October 1925.
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Horace Dawkins was born on 25 December 1867.
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Horace Dawkins died on 4 February 1944.
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