Background
HAWKES, Charles Francis Christopher was born on June 5, 1905 in London. Son of late Charles Pascoe and Eleanor Victoria Hawkes (nee Cobb).
HAWKES, Charles Francis Christopher was born on June 5, 1905 in London. Son of late Charles Pascoe and Eleanor Victoria Hawkes (nee Cobb).
Winchester College, and New College, Oxford.
Assistant Keeper, promoted to 1st Class 1938. Ministry of Aircraft Production 1940-1945. Returned to British Museum 1946, in charge of Prehistoric and RomanoBritish Antiquities 1946.
Professor, of European Archaeology, Oxford University 1946-1972, Emeritus Professor 1972. Fellow Keble College, Honorary Fellow 1972. Professor- in-charge, Institute of Archaeology 1961-1972.
Elected National Secretary (United Kingdom) on Council Institute Congress of Prehistoric and Protohistoric Sciences 1931, full. Executive Committee 1950, Committee of Honour 1971. Excavations on various sites in United Kingdom and Europe 1925-1964.
President Prehistoric Society 1950-1954, Council for British Archaeology 1961-1964.
St. Catharine's Hill, Winchester (with J. N. L. Myres and C. G. Stevens) 1931, Archaeology in England and Wales, 1914-1931 (with T. D. Kendrick) 1932, Winchester College 1933, The Prehistoric Foundations of Europe 1940, Prehistoric Britain (with Jacquetta Hawkes) 1944, Camulodunum: The Excavations at Colchester, 1930-1939 (with M. R. Hull) 1947, Contrib. and Editor (with Sonia Hawkes) Archaeology into History Vol. I 1973, Contrib. and Editor (with P. M. Duval) Celtic Art in Ancient Europe 1976, (Editor and jt. author) Corpus of Brooches in Britain Vol. I (Pre-Roman) 1987.
1948, member; German Archaeological Institute. Royal Irish Academy, Swiss Society for Prehistory.
Married 1st Jessie Jaequetta Hopkins Jacquetta Hawkes) in 1933 (divorced in 1953), one son. Married 2nd Sonia Elizabeth Chadwick in 1959.