Benjamin Hawkshaw (died 1738) was an Irish Anglican divine.
He left Ireland upon the revolution, and entered St. John's College, Cambridge, graduating B.A.
Hawkshaw held four rectories in North Tipperary, in the Diocese of Killaloe (Nenagh, Monsea, Kneagh (Knigh), Killodiernan from 1720 to 1738, and may also have held two rectories in diocese of Kilmacud.
Hawkshaw was author of an octavo volume entitled Poems upon Several Occasions, which was ‘printed by J. Heptinstall for Henry Dickinson, Bookseller in Cambridge,’ in 1693.
In the dedicatory letter to ‘the Learned and Ingineous Dr. Willoughby,’ prefixed to the volume, the poet describes his effusions as ‘the essays but of a very young pen, a few by-thoughts in my vacancies from Irish studies.’ He also published in 1709 The Reasonableness of constant Communion with the Church of England represented to the Dissenters.