Philip Hawkins II, of Pennance

Abt 1700 - 1738  (38 years)

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  Name	Philip Hawkins II
  Suffix	of Pennance
  Birth	Abt 1700
  Gender	Male
  Married	1728 (28 years)
  	1728 married Elizabeth Ludlow, daughter of a London wine merchant. Hawkins ‘by his great pains, care and skill in that profession . . . got himself a very great estate’, becoming the wealthiest lawyer in Cornwall.1
  Probate	1738 (38 years)
  	The death of Philip Hawkins II in 1738 left a political vacuum in Grampound. His heir, Thomas Hawkins, the son of his kinsman Christopher Hawkins and his sister, Mary (TN63), was still in his minority so the Prime Minister’s agent in Cornwall, Richard Edgcumbe, secured the vacant seat for the administration
  Will	Borlase knew Trewithen and its owners well, and even advised on the remodelling of the house. He was a school friend of Philip Hawkins II (TN32 and TN33), who remembered him in his will, through an annuity of £20, stating also that he was ‘now living with me’.3
  Death	1738
  Will	Abt 30 August 1738 (38 years)	Trewithen, near Probus
  	To his ‘dear wife’ he bequeathed ‘her Paraphernalia’, which included ‘Chariot and harnesses in London. Plate and China in Cornwall and London’. She was also given tithes to various properties, and an annuity for life of £600, as well as the ‘liberty of remaining in Trewithen House’ for three months after his death ‘with the use of cellars and provisions’. He was generous in other ways, leaving £50 to his former seamstress, ‘now greatly reduced in circumstances’, and £50 to his washerwoman ‘who hath been and [sic] old servant in our family’. To the Commissioners of Customs he awarded £600 as compensation for the smuggling that he had carried out, since smuggling, he noted, was ‘not only prejudicial to the Crown but likewise destructive of the Trade of this Kingdom’.2
  Occupation	1727 (27 years) - [Office] MP Grampound, Grampound, Cornwall  - MP for Grampound from 1727 until his death, voting consistently with the Opposition, though he and his brother John (d. 1736), formerly master of Pembroke College, Cambridge collaborated with the agents of the government in the elections of 1727 and 1734
  	1727 (27 years) - Trewithen, near Probus  - Philip Hawkins I had prospered as a local lawyer in the employment of the Godolphin family, thus enabling his son, Philip II (TN32 and TN33), to purchase the Trewithen estate in 1727.[4] ... Hawkins purchased Trewithen in 1728 for £2700 https://artandthecountryhouse.com/essays/essays-index/trewithen-and-its-cornish-context-in-the-early-eighteenth-century
  Association	William Borlase (Relationship: beneficiary annuity £20 ‘now living with me’)
  Association	Thomas Hawkins, of Trewithen; M76V-33D (Relationship: heir, Thomas Hawkins, nephew; son of Christopher Hawkins and sister, Mary)
  Person ID	I8422	AHP
  Last Modified	6 Mar 2023

  
  

  Father	Philip Hawkins I   d. 1737
  Relationship	Birth
  Mother	Mary, daughter of Richard Scobell of Menagwins Scobell/HAWKINS,   b. Abt 1674
  Marriage	Abt 1695
  Age at Marriage	He : ?? - She : ~ 21 years.
  Family ID	F2366	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Event Map		Occupation - Philip Hawkins I had prospered as a local lawyer in the employment of the Godolphin family, thus enabling his son, Philip II (TN32 and TN33), to purchase the Trewithen estate in 1727.[4] ... Hawkins purchased Trewithen in 1728 for £2700 https://artandthecountryhouse.com/essays/essays-index/trewithen-and-its-cornish-context-in-the-early-eighteenth-century - 1727 (27 years) - Trewithen, near Probus  Will - To his ‘dear wife’ he bequeathed ‘her Paraphernalia’, which included ‘Chariot and harnesses in London. Plate and China in Cornwall and London’. She was also given tithes to various properties, and an annuity for life of £600, as well as the ‘liberty of remaining in Trewithen House’ for three months after his death ‘with the use of cellars and provisions’. He was generous in other ways, leaving £50 to his former seamstress, ‘now greatly reduced in circumstances’, and £50 to his washerwoman ‘who hath been and [sic] old servant in our family’. To the Commissioners of Customs he awarded £600 as compensation for the smuggling that he had carried out, since smuggling, he noted, was ‘not only prejudicial to the Crown but likewise destructive of the Trade of this Kingdom’.2 - Abt 30 August 1738 - Trewithen, near Probus   = Link to Google Earth
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• Documents		CN/2983 | Complaint of Ann Basset, widow of Tehidy | abt 1746
  		CF/1/2393 | Deed of partition of estate of John Hawkins, lands in Helston, Mullion, Gwennap, Paul, and Penzance | 26 Jun 1739

  
  

  Histories

  Philip Hawkins I had prospered as a local lawyer in the employment of the Godolphin family | 1727