Dennis Hawker

{{Short description|Eighth Bishop of Grantham}}

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Dennis Gascoyne Hawker (8 February 1921{{snd}}31 January 2003) was the eighth Bishop of Grantham.{{cite web |title=The Rt Rev Dennis Hawker |website=The Daily Telegraph |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160324164112/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1422285/The-Rt-Rev-Dennis-Hawker.html |archive-date=24 March 2016 |url-status=live |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1422285/The-Rt-Rev-Dennis-Hawker.html}}

Educated at Addey and Stanhope School and Queens' College, Cambridge,"Who was Who" 1897–2007 London, A & C Black, 2007 {{ISBN|978-0-19-954087-7}} Hawker served in the Royal Marines during the Second World War before he was made a deacon on Trinity Sunday 1950 (4 June){{Church Times | title = Ordinations at Trinity | archive = 1950_06_09_437 | issue = 4557 | date = 9 June 1950 | page = 437 | accessed = 9 October 2019 }} and ordained a priest the next Trinity Sunday (20 May 1951) — both times by Geoffrey Fisher, Archbishop of Canterbury at Canterbury Cathedral.{{Church Times | title = Trinity ordinations | archive = 1951_05_25_357 | issue = 4607 | date = 25 May 1951 | page = 357 | accessed = 9 October 2019 }} His first post was as a curate at St Mary and St Eanswythe's Church, Folkestone,[http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~folkestonefamilies/eanswythe.htm Details of church] after which he was Vicar of St Mark, South Norwood.Crockford's Clerical Directory 1975–76 London: Oxford University Press, 1976 {{ISBN|0-19-200008-X}} From 1960 he was St Hugh’s Missioner for the Diocese of Lincoln and later became Vicar of St Mary and St James, Great Grimsby before appointment to the episcopate. He was consecrated by Michael Ramsey, Archbishop of Canterbury, on 29 September 1972 at Westminster Abbey;{{Church Times | title = picture caption | archive = 1972_10_06_003 | issue = 5721 | date = 6 October 1972 | page = 3 | accessed = 9 October 2019 }} he died on 31 January 2003.