Definition of Sir John Hawkyns

1. Noun. English privateer involved in the slave trade; later helped build the fleet that in 1588 defeated the Spanish Armada (1532-1595).

Exact synonyms: Hawkins, Hawkyns, Sir John Hawkins
Generic synonyms: Privateer, Privateersman

Lexicographical Neighbors of Sir John Hawkyns

Sir James George Frazer
Sir James Matthew Barrie
Sir James Murray
Sir James Paget
Sir James Paul McCartney
Sir James Young Simpson
Sir John Carew Eccles
Sir John Cockcroft
Sir John Cowdery Kendrew
Sir John Douglas Cockcroft
Sir John Everett Millais
Sir John Falstaff
Sir John Frederick William Herschel
Sir John Gielgud
Sir John Hawkins
Sir John Hawkyns (current term)
Sir John Herschel
Sir John Ross
Sir John Suckling
Sir John Tenniel
Sir John Vanbrigh
Sir Joseph Banks
Sir Joseph John Thomson
Sir Joseph Paxton
Sir Joshua Reynolds
Sir Lancelot
Sir Laurence Kerr Olivier
Sir Leonard Hutton
Sir Leonard Woolley
Sir Leslie Stephen

Literary usage of Sir John Hawkyns

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Publications of the Navy Records Society by Navy Records Society (Great Britain) (1902)
"Sir John Hawkyns. Sir Edward Yorke. Captain Fenner. Sir George Beeston. ... the one to be commanded by Sir John Hawkyns, the other by FROM the year 1585 ..."

2. The Naval Tracts of Sir William Monson: In Six Books by William Monson, Michael Oppenheim, Navy Records Society (Great Britain) (1902)
"Sir John Hawkyns. Sir Edward Yorke. Captain Fenner. Sir George Beeston. ... the one to be commanded by Sir John Hawkyns, the other by FROM the year i585 ..."

3. Queen Elizabeth and Her Times: A Series of Original Letters, Selected from by Thomas Wright (1838)
"Your Honor's humbly at commandement as you have bounde me, Sir John Hawkyns TO MR. HOLLAND. PS I have received your letter of the 19th of this present, ..."

4. Queen Elizabeth and her times, original letters selected from the private by William Cecil, Thomas Wright (1838)
"Your Honor's humbly at commandement as you have bounde me, Sir John Hawkyns TO MR. HOLLAND. PS I have received your letter of the 19th of this present, ..."

5. The Archaeological Journal by British Archaeological Association (1873)
"Drake and Sir John Hawkyns, Knights, , ^—' , T1,v' do acknowledge by theis presents that See fig. ..."

6. State Papers Relating to the Defeat of the Spanish Armada, Anno 1588 by John Knox Laughton (1894)
"The Lord Sheffield, Sir John Hawkyns ; with others, whose names I cannot recite. The nth day of August, 1588, I arrived at Harwich, and delivered the letter ..."

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