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Walter Fawkes

Walter Ramsden Hawkesworth Fawkes (2 March 1769 – 24 October 1825) was a Yorkshire landowner, writer and member of parliament (MP) for Yorkshire from 1806 to 1807.

For the cartoonist and clarinettist, see Wally Fawkes.

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Fawkes was a cultivated writer as well as a patron of the fine arts. In 1810 he published The Chronology of the History of Modern Europe, in 1812 a Speech on Parliamentary Reform, and in 1817 The Englishman's Manual; or, a Dialogue between a Tory and a Reformer. In all these he set out his political views.[3] The Englishman's Manual brought a reply the same year from Michael Thomas Sadler.[4]

Maria, eldest daughter, married in 1823 .[6] Their children included Richard Hawksworth Barnes.

Sir Edward Barnes

Anne, fourth daughter, married Godfrey Wentworth of Wooley Park (1797–1865, a first cousin).

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Amelia, married in 1828 .[8]

Digby Cayley Wrangham

Lucy Susan, youngest daughter, married in 1836 .[9]

Anthony Cleasby

Francis Hawkesworth, eldest son, married in 1825 Elizabeth Anne Butler, only daughter of Rev. the Hon. Pierce Butler and his stepmother Maria Sophia (see below). He left no children.[11]

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Ayscough (died 1871), second son, rector of from 1837.[12] He married in 1830 Ellen Story, daughter of John Bainbrigge Story of Lockington Hall.[13] Their second son Frederick, vicar of Woolley, married in 1868 Ellen Mary Arkwright, and Frederick Hawksworth Fawkes was their son.[14] Ayscough's daughter Ellen married Sir George John Armytage, 6th Baronet.[15]

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Richard (1809–1896), youngest son, served in the .[16]

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Fawkes married, firstly, in 1794, Maria, daughter of Robert Grimston of Neswick, with whom he had four sons and seven daughters. She died in 1813.[5] The children included:


Fawkes then married, in 1816, Maria Sophia, widow of Rev. the Hon. Pierce Butler, and daughter of John Vernon of Clontarf Castle. There were no children of the second marriage.[5] Pierce Butler (1782–1808) was the third son of Henry Butler, 2nd Earl of Carrick.[11]

Leigh Rayment's Peerage Pages

 This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Stephen, Leslie, ed. (1889). "Fawkes, Walter Ramsden". Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 18. London: Smith, Elder & Co.

1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by Walter Fawkes

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