John Hopkinson (priest)

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Rev. John Hopkinson
Born1877 (1877) [1]
Fallowfield, Lancashire
Died22 October 1957(1957-10-22) (aged 79–80)
NationalityBritish
Alma mater University College, Oxford
Occupation(s)Cleric, Archdeacon of Westmorland
Father Sir Alfred Hopkinson, K.C.
Relatives Austin Hopkinson, MP (brother)

John Henry Hopkinson (died 22 October 1957) was Archdeacon of Westmorland from 1931 until 1944. [2]

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Personal life and early education

The son of Sir Alfred Hopkinson, K.C.; nephew of John Hopkinson, the physicist and Edward Hopkinson, the electrical engineer; and brother of Austin Hopkinson, M.P., he was educated at Dulwich College and University College, Oxford. He married Evelyn Mary Fountaine, the daughter of a Lincolnshire vicar. Their four sons included the journalist and Orwell biographer Sir Henry Thomas Hopkinson CBE [1] and Brigadier Paul Hopkinson (1906-1991) who was the commanding officer of the 152nd (Indian) Parachute Battalion at the Battle of Shangshak. [3]

He died on 22 October 1957. [4]

Career

He was a Lecturer in Greek at Birmingham University then Warden of Hulme Hall, Manchester and a Lecturer in Archaeology at the University of Manchester from 1904 to 1914 before his ordination in 1914. [5] Then he served as a Private in the RAMC during World War I. He held incumbencies at Holy Trinity Church, Colne; Christ Church, Moss Side; St Oswald, Burneside and Christ Church, Cockermouth. He was also Diocesan Organiser of Religious Education and Examining Chaplain to the Bishop of Carlisle from 1928 to 1944.

Notes

  1. 1 2 Lethbridge, John P. (28 April 2024). "Hopkinson, Hulton and the Herald". The Orwell Society. Retrieved 7 December 2024.
  2. ‘HOPKINSON, Rev. John Henry’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2015; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2014; online edn, April 2014 accessed 23 July 2015
  3. "Obituary for Paul Hopkinson". Airborne Assault Museum. Retrieved 7 December 2024.
  4. The Rev. J. H. Hopkinson. The Times (London, England), Thursday, Oct 24, 1957; pg. 14; Issue 53980
  5. Crockford's Clerical Directory ; p 632: Oxford, OUP 19129[ clarification needed ]


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