Colonel Hawker's Shooting Diaries - Edited with an Introduction

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I`m doing some other research into Hawkers original diaries which is very slow going since, in later life, his handwriting was almost illegible. It`s taken a mate of mine some twenty five years of badgering to get a look at some of the UK located copies of the original documents. To do that you need a boat. If you shoot a bird from a boat and it falls on land, it belongs to the landowner; if it lands in the sea, it is yours. Hawker spent a considerable amount of time at his London residence and at Longparish House in the Test valley, whilst a cottage in Keyhaven served as a base for his wildfowling exploits. Canonical name Hawker, Peter Birthdate 1786-11-24 Date of death 1853-08-07 Gender male Nationality United Kingdom Birthplace London, England, UK Occupations diarist

The Diary of Colonel Peter Hawker, Author of 'Instructions to Young Sportsmen', 1802-1853, Vol. 2 of 2: With an Introduction (Classic Reprint) [Soft Cover ] So the punt gun shown in an earlier TGS Outdoors video was either Hawkers, or there`s a 50% chance it was his.Archbold, W. A. J. (2005). "Peter Hawker". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (onlineed.). Oxford University Press. doi: 10.1093/ref:odnb/12654 . Retrieved 15 July 2015. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.) Instructions to young sportsmen in all that relates to guns and shooting, Colonel Peter Hawker, 1910. [5] All or a portion of this article consists of text from Wikipedia, and is therefore Creative Commons Licensed under GFDL. Hawker designed a Breach Loading swivel gun mounted on a four wheeled carriage, a model of which is reportedly on display at the Rotunda, Woolwich [13] If its the Durs Egg double punt gun that you are interested in there are a couple of images of it on Google, they are faded and not very good quality, but may give you a lead.

Why Shoot Coot?)...to regard them as quarry seems an outmoded idea, belonging more properly to the era of Peter Hawker and his contemporaries of 150 years ago who's principle of "If it moves, shoot it" has happily long died out." The Times, Saturday, Feb 5, 1966; pg. 11; Issue 56548; col C Some big guns gained almost cult status. Irish Tom was made as a muzzle-loading punt-gun. It was bought from an Irish market gunner in the early 1930s by Stanley Duncan. He had it converted to a breech-loader by Greener and started using it in 1936. When Duncan had finished with the gun he sold it to actor James Robertson Justice. It was rediscovered and restored in the 1980s and given to BASC to display at its HQ. Specification of the Patent granted to Peter Hawker, of Long-Parish House, near Andover, in the County of. Hants, Major in the Army; for a Machine, Instrument, or Apparatus to assist in the Attainment of proper Performance on the Piano-Forte, or other keyed Instruments. Dated November 1, 1820 Hawker, Peter (1893). The Diary of Colonel Peter Hawker, 1802-1853. Vol.2. London: Longmans, Green & Co – via Internet Archive.

The fact that your associate wants to keep information to himself is a bit of a pity but I can understand it as my brother researches the story of soldiers killed in WW 1 and feels the same way. I often wonder what the sales figures would be for a book on Hawker considering that all his books are now in the public domain . Someone may be able to make a phd thesis out of it but just how much interest modern shooters would have in it is questionable. I just had my curiosity raised by Sir Ralph Payne Gallweys statement that he could have produced more books from the original manuscripts and remarks in his diary like the ordnance used some of my ideas in the Enfield P53 but unwisely not all of them - you just want to known what he was referring to . Some few years ago I had the priviledge of cleaning Hawkers double gun. I suspect that one of the reasons he sold it to Mr. Birch - Reynardson as he grew older was the sheer weight of the bloody thing. It takes three people to lift it without risk of a hernia!

I take on board what you say about his injury which was doubtless traumatic, but it`s worth remembering that his actions a short while after the event are not those of a man with a shattered hip. In later life, although he often remarks that his old wound was playing him up, long periods of time passed during which he made considerable physical exertions, and made no comment about any discomfort from his injury. Just my take on his writings. Hawker was an keen amateur musician, studying the piano under Henri Bertini and he regularly played the organ at his local church. [11] Hawker's interest in music was not limited to playing however, he devised and patented a device to assist the teaching of the piano; namely his “hand moulds”. [12] Hawker and the development of firearms [ ] In later life Hawker designed a "military musket" and commissioned the manufacture of several prototypes at his own expense. Hawker's musket was favourably received by the Board of Ordnance but was not adopted, being set aside in preference to the Enfield Rifle-Musket, although elements of Hawker's design were incorporated into the final version of the Enfield. [14] Family life [ ]

Hawker kept a regular diary which contains observations of Europe before and after the Napoleonic period and of wild-fowling, game-bird shooting and detailed hunting techniques and conditions prevalent in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. His diary, printed in an abridged form in two volumes, became a popular work. The most recent paper edition appeared in 1988. Hawker also published an originally anonymous memoir of the Peninsula War. [6] Revisionist views [ edit ] The diary of Colonel Peter Hawker, 1802-1853, with an introduction by Sir Ralph Payne-Gallwey, bart. Volume 1 (1893) [Leatherbound]