E Hawkins was not the photographer, but the name of the company, named after the late proprietor. The photograph may have been registered with the photographer's name, but that is not available and is likely unrecorded. The copyright owner would have been the proprietor, who was probably a George Thatcher, who was born in 1839, so in this case it would certainly be PD-70; although no death date is recorded, it is safe to say he died before 1943. The other possibility as proprietor was "Miss Clara Wivil", who died in 1932 (see here for example). It is uncertain when the ownership switched from one to the other; it was Thatcher in 1895, around the time of this photograph according to this. In either case, this picture would be PD-70.

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