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George Hawker
Best known for writing vivid missionary biographies, this early 20th-century author focused on lives shaped by work in Central and West Africa. His books on George Grenfell and Gwen Elen Lewis helped preserve the stories of Protestant missions in the Congo and the Cameroons.
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About the author
George Hawker was an English author and minister associated with missionary writing in the early 1900s. Sources consulted during this search identify him as the author of The Life of George Grenfell, Congo Missionary and Explorer (1909), and one source dates him as 1857–1932.
His work centered on biography rather than fiction. He wrote about people connected with Protestant mission work in Africa, including George Grenfell and Gwen Elen Lewis, and he also contributed a section on Baptist Missionary Society work in The Future of Africa.
Because reliable biographical detail about Hawker himself is limited in the sources found here, the clearest picture is through his books: he appears as a careful recorder of missionary lives, travel, and religious work in the Congo and the Cameroons. That makes him a useful figure for readers interested in faith history, exploration narratives, and the literature of empire-era missions.