Hawkins brothers

Hawkins Brothers. Patented in 1896 in England, a mixture of the following approximate composition KC103 60 to 64,sugar 30 to 32, wood flour or soot 2 to 4,potassium bichromate 2 to 8% Refs 1) Daniel (1902), 370 2) Giua, Trattato 6, (1959), 391... 

Edward Fenton was a brother-in-law of Sir John Hawkins, having married Thomasine Gonson, a sister of Sir John s wife. He served with Sir Martin Frobisher in his first and second Arctic voyages but his voyage to Brazil was an utter failure, and he had a violent quarrel with young William Hawkins. Fenton commanded the Mary Rose in the fleet which dispersed the Spanish Armada in 1588. He died at Deptford in 1603. 

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