Background
HAWKES, Jacquetta was born in 1910 in Cambridge. Daughter of Sir Frederick Gowland Hopkins, D. M (Nobel prize winner) and Lady Hopkins (nbe Stephens).
HAWKES, Jacquetta was born in 1910 in Cambridge. Daughter of Sir Frederick Gowland Hopkins, D. M (Nobel prize winner) and Lady Hopkins (nbe Stephens).
Perse School and Newnham College, Cambridge.
Assistant Principal, Post-War Reconstruction Secretariat 1941-1943. With Ministry of Education, Secretary, United Kingdom National Commission, for United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization 1943-1949 (retired). Vice President Council for British Archaeology 1949-1952.
Archaeological Adviser, Festival of Britain 1949-1951.
Governor British Film Institute 1950-1955. President Warwicks. Council for the Protection of Rural England 1989.
Culture Advisory Committee, United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization 1966-1979.
Married 1st Professor (Charles Francis) Christopher Hawkes in 1933 (divorced in 1953), one son. Married 2nd J. B. Priestley, o.M in 1953.