Neil Francis Hawkins

Neil L. M. Francis Hawkins (1903 – 25 December 1950) was a leading British fascist, both before and after the Second World War. He played a leading role in the British Union of Fascists, controlling the organisational structure of the movement.

British Fascisti

Francis Hawkins joined the British Fascisti (BF) around the time of its inception and became a member of the three man Headquarters Committee, being seen by many of the male members as a preferable leader to Rotha Lintorn-Orman. Under the influence of Francis Hawkins and his close ally E.G. Mandeville Roe the BF, which despite its name had been fairly conservative in nature, moved towards a more genuinely fascist position by emphasising the corporate state and anti-Semitism. Without Lintorn-Orman's approval he held a series of talks with Robert Forgan in which he agreed in principle the idea of merging the BF into the New Party. However, when Francis Hawkins presented the plan to the BF Grand Council, it was rejected by a single vote.

Neil Francis

Neil Francis may refer to:

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Neil Francis (broadcaster)

Neil Francis is a British DJ, and previously hosted the Friday evening slot on Absolute Radio and Absolute 80s.

Francis's first big break in radio came in 1985 with a stint on North Sea pirate Radio Caroline and he has also worked as a presenter for Chiltern Radio in Herts/Beds/Bucks, Invicta FM in Kent and Capital FM in London.

In his Virgin Radio stint, Francis presented at various time slots.

After Virgin re-branded to Absolute Radio He began to present a Friday night show called Absolute 80's and a Saturday morning breakfast show.

Francis covered the drivetime Gold Network show on 25 August 2010. His last regular weekly show on the network was Saturday afternoons from 1-3pm.

During February 2011 he covered Steve Ladner on BBC Radio Kent's lunchtime show. Francis is a freelance presenter.

In April 2013, Gold Network suspended Francis for comments Francis had posted on Facebook about the comedian Jim Davidson.

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Neil Francis (rugby union)

Neil Francis is a retired Irish rugby union lock forward and number eight. He played for Blackrock College, London Irish, Old Belvedere, Leinster and won 36 caps between 1987 and 1996 for Ireland.

Controversy

On February 16, 2014, Francis sparked controversy when he claimed that “gay people do not have any interest in sport” and that “only a tiny percentage are actively involved in professional sports of any kind.”

The player-turned-pundit was speaking on Newstalk's Off the Ball and when asked by presenter Joe Molloy if he believed the percentage of gay people involved in sport was lower than the 10 per cent which is the estimate of the general population who are gay, he said he suspected “that nowhere near 10 per cent. I would say in the smaller margin of 1 per cent.”

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Francis Hawkins

This article is about the 17th century British Jesuit. For the contemporary Australian politician, see Frank Hawkins (Australian politician).

Francis Hawkins (1628–1681) was an English Jesuit and child prodigy and translator. His primary fame derives from two translations he did while quite young, although he had a long career among the English speaking Jesuits in exile. His father was the noted grammarian and physician John Hawkins, and his uncles were Sir Thomas Hawkins and the Jesuit leader Henry Hawkins.

At the age of ten, he published An Alarum for Ladyes, translated from de La Serre. At thirteen, he published Youths Behaviour, or, Decency in Conversation amongst Men (1641). It is possible that the latter work was translated earlier and only published in 1641, as there are references in the work as its being the first he performed. Youths Behaviour was quite popular and ran to ten editions by 1672, and its fame was such that the Puritan Robert Codrington wrote Youths Behaviour, or, Decency in Conversation amongst Women in 1664.

Frank Hawkins (politician)

Francis Harold "Frank" Hawkins (1 June 1897 – 20 December 1971) was an Australian politician. He was a member of the New South Wales Parliament from 1935 until 1968 and held a number of ministerial positions in the Government of New South Wales. He was a member of the Australian Labor Party (ALP).

Hawkins was born in Tenterfield. He was educated to intermediate level at De La Salle College Armidale. He worked initially with the Postmaster General's department and then the NSW Department of Railways. He was transferred to Newcastle Railway Station in 1933.

He successfully contested the Legislative Assembly seat of Newcastle as the Lang Labor candidate in the 1935 general election. The previous member, Peter Connolly did not contest the seat after losing his party's pre-selection.

Hawkins held ministerial roles in the New South Wales Labor Governments of premiers; James McGirr, Joseph Cahill, Bob Heffron and Jack Renshaw. He was a minister without portfolio from 1950 till 1952, Secretary for Lands from 1952 till 1956 and Minister for Child Welfare and Social Welfare from 1956 until the defeat of the Renshaw government at the 1 May 1965 general election.