| John Clarke Hawkshaw | |
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J. Clarke Hawkshaw. Steel engraving by W. H. Gibbs from a photograph by Witcomb |
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| Born | 1841 |
| Died | 12 February 1921 |
| Nationality | British |
| Work | |
| Engineering discipline | Civil |
| Institution memberships | Institution of Civil Engineers (president) |
John Clarke Hawkshaw (1841 – 12 February 1921) was a British civil engineer.[1][2]
Hawkshaw was born in Manchester, England in 1841 and was the son of civil engineer Sir John Hawkshaw and Lady Ann Hawkshaw.[3][4] He attended Westminster School and Trinity College, Cambridge, where he was president of the University Boat Club and rowed in the annual Boat Race against Oxford University in 1863 and 1864.[5] On 9 December 1862 John Clarke Hawkshaw was commissioned as an ensign in the Third Cambridgeshire Rifle Volunteer Corps a Volunteer Force unit stationed at Cambridge University.[6][7] He resigned his commission as ensign in the unit on 1 December 1863.[8] Hawkshaw graduated with a Master of Arts degree and lived at Liphook in Hampshire.[9] By 1876 Hawkshaw was a partner in his father's civil engineering firm.[10]
In March 1876 Hawkshaw was elected a member of the Smeatonian Society of Civil Engineers, an institution that he would become president of in 1889.[10][11] He served as the 39th president of the Institution of Civil Engineers from November 1902 to November 1903.[12] In holding that office he followed in the footsteps of his father who had been the 11th president from December 1861 to December 1863.[13] The largest civil engineering project undertaken by the firm which was initiated by John Clarke Hawkshaw was the Puerto Madero docks in Buenos Aires, Argentina (1887–98). On 4 October 1884 Hawkshaw was appointed Lieutenant-Colonel in the Engineer and Railway Staff Corps, an unpaid Royal Engineers unit which provides technical expertise to the British Army.[14] He was promoted to honorary Colonel and the Commandant of that corps on 6 February 1903, reverting to Lieutenant-Colonel on 1 April 1908.[15][16] In 1903 he was appointed a member of the Royal Commission to decide the British submission to the Louisiana Purchase Exposition of 1904.[17] Hawkshaw also served as a Justice of the Peace.[9] He was married to Cecily Mary Wedgwood the daughter of Francis Wedgwood of the famous pottery firm.[2] Hawkshaw died on 12 February 1921, Cecily had died in 1917.[1][2]
| Professional and academic associations | ||
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| Preceded by Charles Hawksley |
President of the Institution of Civil Engineers November 1902 – November 1903 |
Succeeded by William Henry White |