Hawker, Robert Stephen, a Cornish clergyman and poet; was vicar for 40 years of Morwenstow, a parish on the N. Cornwall coast; author of “Cornish Ballads”; was a humane man, of eccentric ways, and passionately fond of animals; was the author of several works besides his ballads, in particular “Echoes from Old Cornwall” and “Footprints of Former Men in Far Cornwall” (1805‒1875).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
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