Henry Hawkins (Jesuit)

Henry Hawkins (1577 – 18 August 1646) was an English Jesuit writer.

His best known work is the emblem book Partheneia Sacra: Or the Mysterious and Delicious Garden of the Sacred Parthenes (originally published in 1633; reprinted in 1950 and again in 1971).

Henry was the son of Sir Thomas Hawkins and Anne Pettyt.

He married Aphra Norton in February 1604, and was widowed in January 1605.

[1] After serving many years on the English Mission he died in Ghent on 18 August 1646.