Hawkesworth, John, 1715?-1773

found: Wikipedia, July 20, 2020(Johnn Hawkesworth (book editor); John Hawkesworth LLD; born c. 1715, London; died Nov. 16, 1773; buried in the parish church in Bromley, Kent; English writer and book editor)

found: Oxford Dictionary of National Biography WWW site, July 20, 2020(Hawkesworth, John; baptized Oct. 28, 1720, St. Pancras; died Nov. 17, 1773, LIme Street, London; writer; apprenticed to an attorney in London at age of 16; several years later, employed as writing-master at a girls' school in Kent, he married the operator of the school and moved into the school buidling in Bromley; began publishing poems in the The gentleman's magzaine in 1740, and met Samuel Johnson; this friendship allowed Hawkesworth to gradually take on Johnson's duties with the magazine, finally becoming literary editor in 1756; also worte and worked for The adventurer; produced an edition of the works of Jonathan Swift; from 1756, involved in theater as a writer and adapter of stage works; his most popular literary work, Almoran and Hamet, bagan as a stage work but was recast as narrative when it was judged too expensive to stage; tranlsated Fénelon's The adventures of Telemachus from French; appointed by Lord Sandwich to compile the official account of the vovages of James Cook and others to the South Seas; the result prompted dissatisfaction from many directions) - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Hawkesworth_(book_editor)