Christopher James Hawkins (26 November 1937 – 11 November 2023) was a British politician. He was a BritishConservative PartyMember of Parliament forHigh Peak constituency inDerbyshire from the1983 general election until he stood down in1992.

Hawkins was born inSaffron Walden on 26 November 1937. He was educated atBristol Grammar School and theUniversity of Bristol from which he graduated with a BA (Hons) in Economics. From 1959 to 1966, he worked as an economist forCourtaulds, with periods of secondment in Nigeria and Tunisia. Hawkins then joined the Economics Department of theUniversity of Southampton where he was successively Lecturer and Senior Lecturer.

In hisWho’s Who entry, Hawkins listed reading, music and sailing as recreations. Sailing was more than a recreation for Hawkins designed several yachts. An early design was the GK 24 of 1977, but his most successful design was the Hawk 20 which he developed with Reid Marine, a firm inChristchurch, Dorset, and which was launched at theSouthampton Boat Show in 1993; the boat is described in Sailing Today Test Report (April 2001).

After leaving Parliament, he was the Deputy Chairman of theBlack Country Development Corporation until 1998.

Hawkins died on 11 November 2023, at the age of 85.^[1]

• "On the Sales Revenue Maximization Hypothesis",The Journal of Industrial Economics, Vol. 18, No. 2 (April 1970), pp. 129–140.
• (edited with George McKenzie)The British economy : what will our children think? London: Macmillan 1982.
• (with C. B. Chapman, and S. C. Ward)Pricing Policy Models: A Case Study in Practical O.R.,The Journal of the Operational Research Society, Vol. 35, No. 7 (Jul., 1984), pp. 597–603.

• Times Guide to the House of Commons 1987
• Who's Who 2015
• Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs

• Hansard 1803–2005:contributions in Parliament by Christopher Hawkins
• Yacht Designs Database Search for Chris Hawkins and Hawkins, Chris.

This article about aConservativeMember of theParliament of the United Kingdom representing anEnglish constituency and born in the 1930s is astub. You can help Wikipedia byadding missing information.

• v
• t
• e

• 1937 births
• 2023 deaths
• People educated at Bristol Grammar School
• Conservative Party (UK) MPs for English constituencies
• Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for constituencies in Derbyshire
• UK MPs 1983–1987
• UK MPs 1987–1992
• People from Saffron Walden
• High Peak, Derbyshire
• Alumni of the University of Bristol
• Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for High Peak
• Conservative MP for England stubs
• Conservative MP (UK), 1930s birth stubs

• Articles with short description
• Short description is different from Wikidata
• Use dmy dates from August 2016
• Use British English from August 2016
• All Wikipedia articles written in British English
• Wikipedia articles incorporating an LRPP-MP template without an unnamed parameter
• All stub articles