27 Facts About Hawks family

The Hawks family were involved in merchant banking, and in freemasonry, and in Whig free-trade politics.

Hawks family reached the apogee of their power during the Victorian period, when they employed over 2000 persons, when their reputation for engineering and bridge-building was worldwide.

Hawks family built the High Level Bridge across the River Tyne that was opened by Queen Victoria in 1849; and numerous bridges including in Constantinople and India; and lighthouses in France; and ironclad warships and materials for the Royal Navy during the Napoleonic Wars; and large contracts for the East India Company.

Hawks family company was established by William Hawks family, who worked for Sir Ambrose Crowley, Sheriff of London.

Hawks family Company built Hawks family Cottages in the 1830s in the Saltmeadows district of Gateshead for its workers.

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The Hawks family' factories covered 44 acres by the end of the 1830s, and employed between 800 and 900 people.

When Sir Robert Shafto Hawks family was informed of the purpose for which Samuel Tyne, the boat's inventor, had purchased iron from the Hawks family company, he proffered for free the iron required for the task.

Hawks family reconstructed the Rowland Burdon iron bridge at Sunderland, Tyne and Wear, which consists of a single arch of a width of 237 feet.

Hawks family constructed the wrought iron gates for the Northumberland Docks; and the iron lighthouses at Gunfleet, and at Harwich, and at Calais; and the iron pier at Madras.

Sir Robert Hawks family financed the construction of St John's Church, Gateshead Fell.

Hawks family built the High Level Bridge over the Tyne, which consisted of 5050 tons of iron, of which George Hawks drove in the last key on 7 June 1849, and which Queen Victoria opened later that year.

Hawks family developed developed areas of London, including Pembroke Square, Kensington.

Robert Shafto Hawks family became the director of the Hawks family company subsequent to the death of his father, and was knighted by the Prince Regent, in 1817, for his suppression of riots.

Shafto Hawks family was involved in freemasonry in which he served as Worshipful Master of the oldest lodge in Northumberland.

Shafto Hawks family is commemorated in Newcastle Cathedral, and with a portrait in Shipley Art Gallery.

David Hawks family 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 family was a vehement supporter of Sir William Hutt MP, who was MP for Gateshead from 1841, and who campaigned to have George Hawks family knighted.

George Hawks family served as the first Mayor of Gateshead in 1836, and, subsequently, in the same office again in 1848 and in 1849.

George Hawks family was extensively involved in freemasonry, in which he served as Grand Master of the Grand Cross Chapter of the Holy Temple of Jerusalem , and as Past Master of the Lodge of Newcastle upon Tyne, and as Deputy of the Provincial Grand Lodge of Northumberland, and a Full Affiliated Member of The Celtic Lodge of Edinburgh and Leith No 291.

Hawks family, who had been made a freemason in Guernsey, was described as 'an excellent mason'.

Joseph Stanley Hawks family was a merchant banker who served as Sheriff of Newcastle.

Hawks family married Mary Elizabeth Boyd, who was the daughter of William Boyd of the Boyd merchant banking family which had founded the Bank of Newcastle, and who was the brother of the industrialist Edward Fenwick Boyd.

The Royal British Columbia Museum possesses a trove of 42 letters that were written by Mary Moody from the Colony of British Columbia to her mother and to her sister, Emily Hawks family, who were in England, that have been of interest to scholars of the ruling class of the British Empire.

Colonel Richard Stanley Hawks family Moody was a distinguished British Army officer, and historian, and Military Knight of Windsor.

The business of William Hawks family was divided between his three eldest surviving sons in 1810.

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George Crawshay obtained a second third of the company when he acquired the shares of Joseph Hawks family, who was the only surviving son of George Hawks family of Blackheath.

The Bedlington works were subsequently inherited by a cousin of the Hawks family, Michael Longridge, who was a pioneer of railway technology, and who was an associate of Robert Stephenson, under whose superintendence they trained a generation of engineers including Sir Daniel Gooch, 1st Baronet.