# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/robert-stephen-hawker
# Generated: 2026-08-14T17:34:27.041Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/robert-stephen-hawker"
name: "Robert Stephen Hawker"
slug: "robert-stephen-hawker"
description: "Robert Stephen Hawker (1803–1875) was a British Anglican priest, poet, antiquarian and reputed eccentric, known to his parishioners as Parson Hawker. He is best known as the writer of \"The Song of the Western Men\" with its chorus line of \"And shall Trelawny die? / Here's twenty thousand Cornish men / will know the reason why!\", which he published anonymously in 1825. His name became known after Charles Dickens acknowledged his authorship of \"The Song of the Western Men\" in the serial magazine Household Words."
tagline: "Cornish clergyman and poet (1803-1875)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Robert_Stephen_Hawker_1864.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1803-12-03"
deathDate: "1875-08-15"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           41.96
  momentum:             0
  historical:           7.681498666666666
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     50.00000000000001
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://www.discogs.com/artist/3995676"
    title: "Discogs"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://cy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Stephen_Hawker"
    title: "Robert Stephen Hawker"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Stephen_Hawker"
    title: "Robert Stephen Hawker"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Hawker_(poet)"
    title: "Robert Hawker (poet)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Stephen_Hawker"
    title: "Robert Stephen Hawker"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Hawker_(1803%E2%80%931875)"
    title: "Robert Hawker (1803–1875)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Stephen_Hawker"
    title: "Robert Stephen Hawker"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Robert_Hawker_(poet)"
    title: "Wikiquote"
    type:  "WEBSITE"
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/c0493adc-07d8-4169-ab8f-0c752aa268fa"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2158892"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump