Francis Bisset Hawkins

Francis Bisset Hawkins (18 October 1796 – 7 December 1894) was an English physician.

He was born the son of Adair Hawkins, a London surgeon and educated at Eton College and Exeter College, Oxford, gaining BA in 1818, MA in 1821, MB in 1822 and MD in 1825. His brother was William Bentinck Hawkins, FRS.

He was elected a fellow of the Royal College of Physicians in 1826 and was their Gulstonian lecturer in 1828, Censor (i.e. examiner) in 1830 and Lumleian lecturer in 1835. From 1828 to 1832 he was physician at the Westminster Dispensary and in 1833 a Factory Commissioner enquiring into the conditions of child employment in factories.

He was appointed the first Professor of Materia Medica (in modern terms Pharmacology) at King’s College, London in 1829, resigning the chair in 1835, and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 1834.{{cite web|url=https://collections.royalsociety.org/DServe.exe?dsqIni=Dserve.ini&dsqApp=Archive&dsqDb=Persons&dsqSearch=Code Provided by Wikipedia
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    Extracts from the medical evidence of the Factory Commission : delivered to the House of Commons, this evening, July 17, 1833.
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