Frank Hawking

Frank Hawking (b.18 May 1905 d.4 March 1986) BA Oxon(1927), MRCS LRCP(1929), BM ChB(1930), DM(1933), MRCP(1952) FRCP(1965).

Frank Hawking was born in Beverley, Yorkshire, the son of Robert Hawking, a farmer, and his wife Mary Atkinson who was the daughter of a cabinet maker. Frank Hawking’s intellectual abilities were early recognized and he was educated at Ley’s School, Cambridge, and the University of Oxford, where he obtained his BA with first class honours in 1927. He carried out his clinical studies at Bart’s, later obtaining his DM in 1933. He was elected a Fellow of the College in 1965.