Hawker Of Morwenstow: Portrait of an Eccentric Victorian by Piers Brendon

Hawker Of Morwenstow: Portrait of an Eccentric Victorian

Piers Brendon

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The popular account depicts Hawker as a youth of wild high spirits who delighted in hoaxes and practical jokes. As an Oxford undergraduate he won the Newdigate Poetry Prize and married his rich 41-year-old godmother. In 1834 he became vicar of Mor...

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