Henry Hawley was the English Governor of Barbados from 1630 to 1639/40.
Background
Henry Hawley was the younger son of James Hawley, who held the lease for Brentford Market in Middlesex and, until 1622, the lease for Boston Manor nearby. James Hawley was a mercer also trained at the Middle Temple, one of the Inns of Court.
Hawley himself served a mercer's apprenticeship at the Three Cranes Tavern in London. Almost all of his siblings embarked on colonisation in the New World; one exception was his younger brother Gabriel, who left his draper's apprenticeship to serve in 1622 his mercer uncle Henry Hawley, who newly appointed as the English East India Company's chief merchant in the East Indies.
Hawley's brother, James, had served his mercer's apprenticeship with his uncle Henry Hawley and may have settled in Virginia. Hawley appointed his brother William to colonise and govern St. Croix, one of the Virgin Islands, but the islands were taken over by the Spanish.
