Peter Hawker

Colonel Peter Hawker was a celebrated diarist, author and sportsman accounted one of the Great Shots of the 19th Century. His sporting exploits were widely followed and, on occasion, considered worthy of report in The Times. Born in London to Colonel Peter Ryves Hawker and Mary Wilson Hawker he was educated at Eton and then entered military service in 1801 with the purchase of a commission as a cornet in The Royal Dragoons , soon gaining a promotion to captain. Hawker notes in his diary that I was a Captain of Dragoons soon after I was seventeen years old, but paid dearer for it than anyone in the service.

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