He represented the province whilst studying in Dunedin, and played no first-class cricket after graduating as a doctor in 1935.

The partnership, which was made against Canterbury at Lancaster Park in December 1931, set a record for the tenth wicket in New Zealand domestic cricket which, as of January 2024, still stands.

[2][6][7] Hawksworth worked as house surgeon at New Plymouth Hospital before moving to London in the late 1930s to continue his studies.

[8] Hawksworth served in the Medical Corps of the Second New Zealand Expeditionary Force in World War II.

[9] Among his patients in Oxford was the American actress Patricia Neal, who gave birth in 1965 after being partially paralysed by a series of strokes.