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David John Leader Hawkins (born 3 March 1949) was the area Bishop of Barking in the Church of England from 2003 to 2014.Hawkins was educated at the University of Nottingham. After further study at St John’s College Nottingham he was ordained in 1974. His ordained ministry as a curate at St Andrew’s Bebington after which he was spent six years in Nigeria. He was then vicar of St George’s Leeds for 16 years until his ordination to the episcopate.