Sir Joseph Henry Hawley, 3rd Baronet

Sir Joseph Henry Hawley Bt. (1813–75) was a noted English thoroughbred race horse owner and breeder.

Caricature in Vanity Fair, 21 May 1870

Life

Hawley was born in Harley Street, London, on 27 October 1813 , the eldest in a family of ten children. His parents were Sir Henry Hawley, 2nd Baronet, who died in 1831, and his wife Catherine Elizabeth Shaw, daughter of Sir John Gregory Shaw, 5th Baronet.[1]

In his early career Hawley trained privately at Fyfield in Wiltshire. Four of his horses won The Derby:[2] Teddington (1851), Beadsman (1858), Musjid (1859) and Blue Gown (1868). Other classic horseracing wins were Fitz-Roland in the 1858 2,000 Guineas, Aphrodite in the 1851 1,000 Guineas, Miami in the 1847 Oaks and Pero Gomez in the 1869 St Leger. He thus won all five English Classics. He was the breeder of the 1874 Belmont Stakes winner Saxon.[3][4]

Hawley served as High Sheriff of Kent for 1844.[5] He disposed of land in Shropshire, in the family since the 1st baronet married Dorothy Ashwood of Madeley.[6]

Family

Hawley, then of Leybourne Grange, Kent, married on 18 June 1839, at St George's Hanover Square, Sarah Diana, third daughter of General Sir John Gustavus Crosbie, GCH, of Watergate House, Up Marden, Chichester, Sussex (1765-1843). They had three daughters: Mabel-Diana (died 12 April 1852); Mildred-Catherine (died 1902) who married Captain Barrington Campbell, Scots Guards (later Lord Blythswood); and Morna-Georgina (died 1919), who married 25 June 1874 Percy-Fitzhardinge Raymond-Barker of Fariford Park, county Gloucestershire (died 1895).[7][8]

The novelist Henry Hawley Smart, Hawley's nephew,[9] set several of his books in the racing world.

Coat of arms of Sir Joseph Henry Hawley, 3rd Baronet
Crest
A dexter arm in armour Proper garnished Or holding in the hand a spear in bend sinister point downwards.[10]
Escutcheon
Vert a saltire engrailed Or.

See also

References
  1. Vamplew, Wray. "Hawley, Sir Joseph Henry, third baronet". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/12697. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
  2. Profile at the National Horseracing Museum - retrieved 9 January 2011
  3. New York Racing Association (2010). "1874 Belmont Stakes" (PDF). The Belmont Stakes. New York Racing Association. Archived from the original (PDF) on 7 October 2011. Retrieved 25 May 2011.
  4. Bruce, S. D. (1884). American Stud Book. Vol. 1 (Revised ed.). New York: Turf, Field, and Farm. p. 90. ISBN 9781933958385. OCLC 228769751.
  5. "No. 20311". The London Gazette. 31 January 1844. pp. 347–348.
  6. Page, William (1985). Victoria History of Shropshire. Vol. 11. A. Constable and Company. p. 38. ISBN 978-0-19-722763-3.
  7. Burke's Peerage, 1880
  8. The singer Matthew Raymond-Barker (1989-) is a kinsman.
  9. Burke's Peerage, 1880
  10. Debrett's Peerage. 1878.
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