Henry Charles Moorhead Hawkey (c. 1820, India – 1859, Cricklewood, London, United Kingdom)[1] was a lieutenant in the Royal Marines who took part in the last fatal duel between Englishmen on English soil in 1845.
In 1843 Hawkey was posted to the Marines base at Portsmouth, and in May 1845 he and his wife made the acquaintance of James Alexander Seton, a wealthy former cavalry officer.
Hawkey therefore publicly insulted Seton, leaving him little option, by the standards of the day, but to issue his own challenge.
Hawkey and his second, fellow Marine Lieutenant Edward Lawes Pym, arrived at the appointed place late in the afternoon: a remote spot on the beach near Gosport, Hampshire.
His marriage was destroyed, he fell into debt, and died of tuberculosis in London seven years after his court martial, aged 39.