[2] After education at Dulwich College, Clifford F. Hawkins studied at the medical school of Guy's Hospital, where he graduated MB BS in 1939.
[1]In 1976 Hawkins and colleagues M. Farr, C. J. Morris, A. M. Hoare, and N. Williamson were the first to report rod-shaped organisms in synovial membrane involved in Whipple's disease.
[4] Hawkins wrote books and articles for medical professionals and for the general public.
For about 10 years for the British Medical Journal he wrote a monthly column entitled "What's new in the new editions".
On 22 September 1945 at Seven Oaks Congregational Church in Kent, Hawkins married Susan Fantes.