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Raymond Hawkins
Vice Admiral Sir Raymond Shayle Hawkins KCB (21 December 1909 – 18 October 1987) was a Royal Navy officer who went on to be Fourth Sea Lord.
Naval career.
Born on 21 December 1909 and educated at Bedford School, Raymond Hawkins joined the Royal Navy in 1927, serving aboard HMS Iron Duke in 1932 and aboard HMS Resolution in 1933. He served with Submarines between 1935 and 1943, and was promoted to lieutenant commander in 1940. He served aboard HMS Orion in 1943, as Assistant
South African botanist - born Tewkesbury 1886.
- Kathleen Hawkins- poet - born Tewkesbury 1883.
- Alfred Jones - cricketer - born Tewkesbury 1900.
- Henry Green - author - born Tewkesbury 1905.
- Anna Ford - newsreader and TV presenter - born Tewkesbury 1943.
- Eric Morecambe - British comedian - collapsed backstage at the town's Roses Theatre 1984.
- John Moore - writer - born Tewkesbury 1907.
- Raymond Priestley - scientist, Antarctic explorer, educationalist - born & educated in Tewkesbury