Horace Dawkins


Sir Horace Christian Dawkins was a British civil servant who served as a clerk in the Parliament of the United Kingdom.
He was educated at Eton College and Balliol College, Oxford. During the First World War he served as a Divisional Commander in the Metropolitan Special Constabulary, and was made a Member of the Order of the British Empire on 7 January 1918.
Dawkins was appointed a Companion of the Order of the Bath in the 1925 Birthday Honours while a Clerk Assistant. Between 1930 and 1937 he served as Clerk of the House of Commons, and he was appointed a Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath on 31 October 1925.