1802 - 1868 Topics: Jesus Christ Praise and Thanksgiving; Adoration and Praise; Blessings; Church Anniversaries; Church Dedication of a Building; Church Education; Church Triumphant; Comfort/Consolation; Glory; God House, Home; Healing; Heaven(s)/Paradise; Jesus Christ Images of; Jesus Christ Praise; Jesus Christ Reign; Jesus Christ Rock; Jesus Christ Strength and Refuge; Love; Opening Hymns; Petition; Prayer; Processionals (Opening of Worship); Service Music Gathering, Call to Worship, Greeting; Service Music Doxologies; Supplication; Trinity; Trust; Unity; Worship; Zion; Epiphany 7 Year A; Easter 5 Year A; Proper 17 Year A; Proper 18 Year A; Lent 3 Year B; Easter 4 Year B; Proper 11 Year B; Christmas 2 Year C; Epiphany 3 Year C; Easter 7 Year C; Pentecost Year C; Proper 9 Year C; All Saints Year C; Proper 27 Year C; Reign of Christ Year C Adapter of "WESTMINSTER ABBEY" in Voices United Hawkins, Ernest, B.D., son of Major Hawkins, born Jan. 25, 1802, at Hitchin, and educated at Balliol College, Oxford (B.A. 1842). He was for sometime a Fellow of Exeter College. On taking Holy Orders he became Curate of Burwash, sub-librarian of the Bodleian Library, Curate of St. George's, Bloomsbury, Minister of Curzon Chapel, Mayfair, London, Prebendary of St. Paul's, and Canon of Westminster. From 1838 to his death, Oct. 5, 1866, he also acted as secretary to the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts. Besides his prose works, which were not numerous, he published Verses in commemoration of the Third Jubilee of the S.P.G. (Society for the Propagation of the Gospel), 1851-2. To this little collection his hymns were contributed. The most extensively used of these, "Lord, a Saviour's love displaying" (Missions), has been adopted by many collections.
--John Julian, Dictionary of Hymnology (1907)
Ernest Hawkins