[1] He was the eldest son of Sir Thomas Hawkins, knight-banneret, of Nash Court, Kent, by Anne, daughter and heiress of Cyriac Pettit, of Boughton-under-the-Blean in the same county.
He succeeded to the family estates on the death of his father, 10 April 1617, and was knighted by James I at Whitehall Palace 4 May 1618.
[2] Hawkins was a friend and correspondent of James Howell, who mentions him in the Epistolæ Ho-elianæ, and he was also acquainted with Edmund Bolton, who selected him in 1624 to be one of the original 84 members of his projected Royal Academy.
Lady Hawkins would not admit the officers without a special warrant, saying that her husband had the great seal of England in his trunk to protect her house, and the matter seems to have dropped there.
[2] Hawkins died at Nash Court, Kent, towards the close of 1640, and was buried near the graves of his father and mother.