Quote of the day
What can you conceive more silly and extravagant than to suppose a man racking his brains, and studying night and day how to fly?
Robert Hawker

Born: 1753
Died: 1827 (aged 74)
Bio: Robert Hawker was an Anglican priest in Devon vicar of Charles Church, Plymouth. Called "Star of the West" for his popular preaching, he was known as an evangelical and author. The Cornish poet Robert Stephen Hawker was his grandson.
Known for:
- Poor Man's Morning & Evening Portions
- Zion's pilgrim (1801)
- The Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary
- Specimens of Preaching (1801)