1932
(475)
(Shop Fitter and Company Director).
Son of the late Mr. William Hawkes, for seventeen years a prominent member of the Leic. Board of Guardians; born at Leic. 31 January 1871, educated at the Wyggeston School, being now the principal and founder of the well-known and enterprising firm of shop fitters, chairman and managing director of a large multiple boot company, and one of Leicester's leading liberals, and for a time president of the West Leic. Liberal Association. He joined the City Council 1 November 1912 as a representative of No. 10 or Westcotes Ward, a seat he occupied for twenty-two years, until raised to the aldermanic bench 31 July 1934. A keen business man, particularly in respect to values of properties, in which he is regarded as an authority, he has been instrumental in bringing about improvements in the widening of the city's thorough fares, especially taking a live interest in the Charles Street improvement, the town planning and other schemes.
Ald. Hawkes is a Justice of the Peace, a Licensing Justice, has served on the Watch and Water Committees, and at present (1935) is chairman of the Highways Committee, vice-chairman of the Parliamentary and
General Purposes Committee, a life governor of the Leic. Royal Infirmary, a Congregationalist and a life member of the British Association of Science. He married, 11 July 1894, Mary Elizabeth, eldest daughter of the late James Stevens of Leic. There is a son and a daughter of this union.
A member of the Hawkes family from Devonshire settled here about 1735 and established the Leic. branch.
Residence 1935: Stoughton Drive South, Leicester.
