HAWKS, FRANcis LISTER, an., LL.D., American clergyman and author, was b. at Newbern, N. C., June 10, 1798; educated at the university of North Carolina; admitted to the bar in 1817; in 1819, elected to the state legislature; but being drawn to the church, he was ordained, iu 1827, a clergyman of the Episcopal church, and was engaged at New Haven, Philadelphia, and St. Thomas's church in New York, until 1843. During this period he was appointed historiographer of the Episcopal church in America, and visited England in search of documents. In 1837 he founded, with Dr. Henry, the New York Pev.iew, and established St. Thomas's hall, a high school, at Flushing, Long island, which involved him in heavy pecuniary liabilities, charges based upon which were brought against him on his election in 1843 as bishop of Missis sippi. He was acquitted of the charges brought against him, but declined the bishopric.
In 1844 he became rector of Christ's church, in New Orleans, and president of the uni versity of Louisiana. In 1849 he declined the bishopric of Rhode Island, and becair' rector of Calvary church, New York. In this busy career he published Reports of the Supreme Court of North Carolina (4 vols., Contributions to the Ecclesiastical History of the United States (2 vols., Egypt and its Monuments (1849); Auricular Confession in the Protestant Episcopal Church (1850); a translation of Rovero and Tschudi's Antiquities of Peru (1854); and edited the papers of gen. Alexander Hamilton; biographical works; several juvenile books; Commodore Perry's Expedition to the China Seas and Japan in and a portion of a History of North Carolina. Ile died in New York, Sept. 27, 1866.