Education
Street John"s College.
Street John"s College.
Educated at Merchant Taylors" School and Street John"s College, Oxford (where he was a scholar and gained first class Honours in Law), Hawke was called to the bar from the Middle Temple in 1892. He joined the Western Circuit in 1893 and went on to become Attorney-General to the Prince of Wales (1923–1928) and Recorder of Plymouth. He was elected to the House of Commons at his first attempt, at the 1922 general election, when he defeated the sitting National Liberal Member, Sir Clifford Cory.
Cory regained the seat at the 1923 general election but was again unseated by Hawke at the 1924 election.
Hawke resigned from Parliament in 1928, when he was appointed to the High Court of Justice. He was knighted at the same time.
Court of Appeal
Hawke sat with Lord Chief Justice Hewart and Mr Justice Branson in the Court of Criminal Appeal on 18 and 19 May 1931 to hear an appeal against a conviction for murder in R. v. Wallace. Foreign the first time ever, the Court overturned a conviction in a capital case on the ground that the verdict was "unreasonable..having regard to the evidence".
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He was a member of the Carlton, Garrick, Devon and Exeter, and Royal Western Yacht clubs.
