George Hawker

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George Hawker

A Baptist minister and biographer, he wrote vivid early-20th-century accounts of missionary lives in central Africa. His best-known books include studies of George Grenfell and Gwen Elen Lewis, bringing together letters, personal memories, and a strong sense of place.

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An Englishwoman's twenty-five years in tropical Africa : Being the biography of Gwen Elen Lewis, missionary to the Cameroons and the Congo

An Englishwoman's twenty-five years in tropical Africa : Being the biography of Gwen Elen Lewis, missionary to the Cameroons and the Congo

by George Hawker

About the author

George Hawker was an English Baptist minister who served at Camden Road Baptist Church in London. Evidence from his published books and mission-history sources identifies him as living from 1857 to 1932.

He is best known as the author of The Life of George Grenfell, Congo Missionary and Explorer (1909) and An Englishwoman's Twenty-Five Years in Tropical Africa (1911), a biography of Gwen Elen Lewis. Those books show him working as a careful compiler of letters, recollections, and historical detail, with a particular interest in Christian mission work in the Congo and Cameroon.

Hawker wrote in a clear, purposeful style shaped by his role as a minister. His books now offer more than devotional biography: they also preserve firsthand material about travel, faith, and colonial-era missionary life in Africa.