Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715-1886/Dawkins, James (1)
Dawkins, James, s. Henry, of Isle of Jamaica, arm. St. John's Coll., matric. 7 Dec., 1739, aged 16; created D.C.L. 14 April, 1749, Eastern traveller, discoverer of the ruins of Palmyra and Balbek, M.P. Hindon 1754, until his death Dec., 1757.