David John Leader Hawkins (born 3 March 1949) is a British retired Anglican bishop.

[2] He began his ordained ministry as a curate at St Andrew's Bebington,[6] after which he was spent six years in Nigeria.

He was then vicar of St George's Leeds[7] for 16 years until his ordination to the episcopate.

On 17 October 2002, at Southwark Cathedral, he was one (with Richard Cheetham and David Hamid) of the last three people to be ordained and consecrated a bishop by George Carey before his retirement as Archbishop of Canterbury.

[8][9] He was installed at Chelmsford Cathedral in January 2003[1] and retired on 30 March 2014.