The Reverend John Hawksworth (1785–1876)
The Reverend John Hawksworth was a clergyman and the husband of Ellen Maria Möller, sister of Elizabeth Sophia Allnatt (née Möller), Henry Salt’s maternal grandmother. Through this marriage, he was connected to the wider Möller family, whose history linked Ireland with Shropshire and northern European Protestant religious traditions.
John was born at Wem, Shropshire, in 1785 and was baptised there on 21 June that year. He was the son of the Reverend John Hawksworth and Maria Möller. He studied at Trinity College, Dublin, graduating with a BA in 1812 and an MA in 1816. He subsequently pursued a legal career and was called to the bar at Lincoln’s Inn in 1819.
On 7 February 1811, John married his first cousin, Ellen Maria Möller, in Dublin. Ellen was the daughter of Andrew Möller of Butterston and a granddaughter of the Reverend Olaus von Möller. Their marriage united two branches of the Möller family.
John entered the ministry of the Church of England and served at Woore, Shropshire, from 1830 until 1864. He then became Vicar of Broughton, a position he held until his death. He died on 17 September 1876 at The Grove, Wem, aged 91, and was buried on 22 September at St Mary’s Church, Broughton.
Publications
The Glorious Gospel of the Blessed God: a Series of Twelve Parochial Discourses, from Consecutive Portions of the Old and New Testaments.
By the Rev. JOHN HAWKSWORTH, M.A., Perpetual Curate of Woore, Salop, and incumbent of the district thereunto attached.
Published for the benefit of the Schools of the district.
Hope and Co., Great Marlborough-street; Seeleys, Fleet-street and Hanover-street; Nisbet, Berners-street, &c.
Published: 1854
The Diaspora: A Brief Notice of the Elect Churches, and of the Catholics among whom they dwelt.
With suggestions for a brotherly union of Evangelical Churches.
By JOHN HAWKSWORTH, M.A., Incumbent of Broughton, Salop.
I. O. Sandford, Shrewsbury. Nisbet and Co., Berners-street, London.
Published: 1867