- Creator
- Hawtayne, John, 1790 or 91-1833
- Call number
- Pforz Ms
- Physical description
- 1 item
- Preferred Citation
- John Hawtayne manuscript material : 1 item, Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle, The New York Public Library
- Repository
- Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His Circle
- Access to materials
- Restricted access. Request an in-person research appointment.
John Hawtayne, British clergyman in India. He was the son of William Hawtayne, cleric of Elstree, Hertfordshire. Hawtayne matriculated at Exeter College, Oxford on 25 Feb 1808 at the age of seventeen, receiving his D.D. in 1826. At some point he was appointed the Archdeacon of Calcutta, and in December of 1825 he became the Archdeacon of Bombay. On 9 Jan 1826 he married Margaret Franks, the daughter of Sir John Franks, Judge of the Bengal Supreme Court. With Margaret he had two children, William and Katherine. Hawtayne died at Exmouth, Devon on 13 January 1833. The epithalamium in the Pforzheimer Collection's volume of poems may be dedicated to his elder brother, Captain Charles S.J. Hawtayne, Royal Navy. · Volume of poems, "Original Poetry by John Ha[w/n?]tayne" : [composition dates 1807-1809; copy dates after 1817] : (MISC 2281) : 25 pages of poems, variously dated, fair copied into a ruled notebook; apparently in two different hands, neither of which is certainly that of the author. The nine poems included are, "St. John the Baptist," "Impromptu," "To Night," "Anna," "On the death of Mr. G. Trower," "An Adieu to Brockley Wood, cut down in 1808," "The Wrens," "Translation from Horace," and "To Capt. and Mrs. H. on their Marriage." The bookseller's ticket on the front paste-down is for "William Robson Co., printers, stationers, and account book manufacturers," a firm which operated under that name from 1817 to 1821 (cf. Todd's Directory of printers). The poet's name as written on the title page is unclear; it might read "John Hantayne," although research has identified no person by that name. Shelved under "Hawtayne" with bound manuscript volumes.
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Carl H. Pforzheimer Collection of Shelley and His CircleStephen A. Schwarzman Building
Fifth Avenue at 42nd Street, New York, NY 10018-2788
Third Floor, Room 319