Mary Anne Hawkins
1754–1830 (age 76)
Biography
Mary Anne Hawkins spent her years in Diddington keeping alive the rhythms of charity that knit the community together. She welcomed weary travellers, shared shelter with younger kin, and made the Church of St Lawrence a place of steady warmth.
Her memorial stands as a reminder that faithful kindness—dispensed without fanfare—can shape a parish's character and that her careful stewardship of home and hearth remains an inspiration.