4/7/2024 0 Comments The prisoner of zenda 1913![]() ![]() In 1861, Edwards Comerford Hawkins became headmaster of St John's Foundation School. Rev Henry Ernest Casey became Vicar of Berrow Rev George Edwards Comerford-Casey was a teacher at Nottingham High School before moving to Nice Rev William Henry Casey was a curate in Liverpool and Rev Henry Hawkins was a Victorian pioneer in mental health care. It came as no surprise when Edwards Comerford Hawkins entered the ministry of the Church of England - four of his first cousins were clergymen too. There were so many look-alike Comerford-Casey and Hawkins cousins that they often played at passing themselves off as each other. The Comerford-Casey family fortune came from the soap industry in Liverpool, but medicine and the law became the main professions of the family members, who moved with ease between their homes in Cork, Hitchin and Liverpool. Dr Frederick Hawkins of Hitchin, his sister Anne, and their cousin Susanna Hawkins all married into the Casey family of Cork, their spouses being two of the sons and a daughter of Edwards Casey of Cahirgal and Elmgrove Grove, Cork, and his wife, Jane Comerford. The only son of a Hertfordshire doctor, he was born on May 15th, 1827. His fame as a Victorian writer and journalist has vanished in the intervening century, but his literary reputation continues vicariously through a more famous son and nephew. Yesterday was the 100th anniversary of the death of the Rev Edwards Comerford Hawkins, a journalists' parson and a writer with a strong Irish background. ![]()
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