Sir John Hawkins

(1719-1789)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Hawkins, John, Sir, 1719-1789 NRA: Hawkins Sir John (1719-1789) Knight Author DNB: Hawkins, Sir John (1719–1789), music scholar and lawyer LBT ID: JoHawki1789 VIAF ID: 44603259 LOC ID: n50025113	B/BAP: 1719-03-29 DIED: 1789-05-21
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English writer, biographer of Samuel Johnson, and author of A General History of the Science and Practice of Music (1776). He had the misfortune to be outshown in both capacities by Boswell and Burney respectively.
REFERENCES TO Sir John Hawkins: Charles Lamb to Sarah Stoddart Hazlitt, [24 May 1830] in The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905) Found 1: ¶ 3 Charles Lamb, The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905) Letters: 1830