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Hopton may refer to: Places in England *Hopton, Derbyshire *Hopton-on-Sea, Norfolk *Hopton (by Nesscliffe), Shropshire *Hopton Cangeford, Shropshire *Hopton Castle and Hopton Castle (village), Shropshire *Hopton Heath, Shropshire *Hopton Wafers, Shropshire *Hopton, Staffordshire *Hopton, Suffolk *Upper Hopton, West Yorkshire People with the surname *Arthur Hopton (1488–1555) of Cockfield Hall, Yoxford, Suffolk, landowner, magistrate and MP for Suffolk *Arthur Hopton (died 1607), of Witham, Somerset, MP for Dunwich and later for Suffolk *Arthur Hopton (diplomat) (c.1588–1650), English diplomat who served as ambassador to Spain *Charles Hopton (1861–1946), Anglican priest, Archdeacon of Birmingham *David Hopton (died 1492), Anglican priest, canon of Windsor *Edward Hopton (1837–1912), British Army officer, Lieutenant Governor of Jersey *Ineta Hopton (née Mackeviča; born 1992), Latvian professional squash player *Jessica Hopton (born 1996), English badminton player *John Hopt ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hopton, Derbyshire
Hopton is a small village adjacent to the village of Carsington and two miles (3.2 km) from the market town of Wirksworth in the Derbyshire Dales. Evidence of human activity near Hopton, during a warm period known as the Aveley Interglacial around 200,000 years ago, is provided by the discovery of a Paleolithic Acheulean hand axe in the area. Hopton is mentioned in the Domesday Book in 1086 as a berewick (supporting farm) of the manor and town of Wirksworth. Historically, its main industries were farming and lead mining. Hopton lies just off the B5035 road from Ashbourne to Wirksworth, at the northern end of Carsington Water. The village has a long association with the Gell family, who have had assets in Hopton since 1327, and had extensive lead mining interests in the Wirksworth area. The Gells lived at Hopton Hall. Notable family members include Sir John Gell, who was a Parliamentarian in the English Civil War and Sir William Gell, who was an archaeologist. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ineta Hopton
Ineta Hopton (née Mackeviča; born 11 July 1992) is a Latvian professional squash player. In March 2022, she reached number 42 in the world, her career-best ranking so far. She has reached four finals on the PSA World Tour Sports competitions that are a recurring series of events or races, but do not constitute a sports league. Series Sports Sport is a physical activity or game, often competitive and organized, that maintains or improves physical ability ... and won one title. In June 2023 she married squash coach Will Hopton. References 1992 births Living people Female squash players Latvian sportswomen Latvian squash players Sportspeople from Liepāja {{Latvia-sport-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Susanna Hopton
Susanna Hopton née Harvey (1627–1709) was an English devotional writer. Life Largely self-educated, she married Richard Hopton of Kington, Herefordshire, a barrister, and judge. In the early 1650s she became a Catholic convert through the influence of Father Henry Turberville. Later Hopton's husband brought her back to the Church of England after theological study in William Laud, Thomas Morton, and William Chillingworth. There were no children of the marriage, and her husband died in 1696, leaving her in comfortable circumstances. She continued to live at Kington. Two close friends among the nonjuring clergy were George Hickes and Nathaniel Spinckes, both of whom published accounts of her life. Before her last illness Hopton moved from Kington to Hereford, where she died of a fever on 12 July 1709, aged 81. She was buried at Bishops-Frome, near her husband. Works Hopton's works were all of a devotional character, and were for the most part published anonymously. They drew ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Russell Hopton
Harry Russell Hopton (February 18, 1900 – April 7, 1945) was an American film actor and director. Biography Hopton was born in New York City, New York. He appeared in 110 films between 1926 and 1945, often playing streetwise characters from the city. Hopton directed the films ''Song of the Trail'' (1936) and ''Black Gold (1936 film), Black Gold'' (1936). He died of an overdose of sleeping pills in North Hollywood, California. He is buried at Holy Cross Cemetery, Culver City, Holy Cross Cemetery in Culver City. Selected filmography *''Ella Cinders (film), Ella Cinders'' (1926) - Studio Actor (uncredited) *''Call of the Flesh'' (1930) - Captain Enrique Vargas *''College Lovers'' (1930) - Eddie Smith *''Remote Control (1930 film), Remote Control'' (1930) - Frank *''Min and Bill'' (1930) - Alec Johnson *''New Moon (1930 film), New Moon'' (1930) - Dimitri (uncredited) *''The Criminal Code'' (1930) - State's Attorney (uncredited) * ''Desert Vengeance'' (1931) - Inspector (uncr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Hopton (died 1638)
Robert Hopton (c.1575–1638) was an English landowner and politician who sat in the House of Commons in two parliaments between 1604 and 1622. Hopton was the eldest son of Sir Arthur Hopton of Witham Friary, Somerset and his wife Rachel Hall, daughter of Edmund Hall of Greatford, Lincolnshire. In 1604, he was elected Member of Parliament for Shaftesbury. Between about 1609 and 1617 he was engaged in the construction of Evercreech House. He was Sheriff of Somerset for the year 1618 to 1619. In 1621 he was elected MP for Somerset.W.L. Rutton, 'Pedigree of Hopton of Suffolk and Somerset', in J.J. Howard (ed.), ''Miscellanea Genealogica et Heraldica'', 3rd Series Vol. III (Mitchell and Hughes, London 1900)pp. 9–12 and notepp. 81–86(Internet Archive). Family By his wife Jane Kemys (daughter and heir of Rowland Kemys of the Vaudrey, or Faerdref, Monmouthshire), Robert Hopton had several children: * Ralph Hopton, 1st Baron Hopton, who married Elizabeth (died 1646), daughter of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Hopton (died 1590)
Robert Hopton (died 1590), of Yoxford, Suffolk and of St Mary Mounthaw, London, was Knight Marshal of the Household 1560–1577, and English Member of Parliament for Mitchell in 1563. He was a son of Sir Arthur Hopton of Cockfield Hall, Yoxford, and brother of Sir Owen Hopton, Lieutenant of the Tower of London. Ralph Hopton (died 1571) was appointed Knight Marshal of the Household in 1542, and continued in that office alone until 1556, when he stood down. He was reappointed in 1558, and on 20 May 1560 Queen Elizabeth granted the office to Ralph Hopton, Knight, and Robert Hopton together for life in survivorship. In 1561 his servant Roger Ratcliffe confessed to involvement in a highway robbery. An important prisoner at this time in the Marshalsea Court was Edmund Bonner, whom they escorted to the Court of King's Bench in October 1564. Sir Ralph Hopton decided to perpetuate his surname in his patrimony of Witham Friary, Somerset, by arranging an alliance between his wife's niece ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ralph Hopton, 1st Baron Hopton
Ralph Hopton, 1st Baron Hopton (159628 September 1652) was an English politician, military officer and peer. During the First English Civil War, he served as Royalist commander in the West Country, and was made Baron Hopton of Stratton in 1643. Along with his close friend Sir Edward Hyde (later the Earl of Clarendon), he was made advisor to the future Charles II, when he was appointed to rule the West in early 1644. He commanded the last significant Royalist field army, and followed Charles into exile after surrendering in March 1646. A devout supporter of the Church of England, his personal opposition to Catholicism and Presbyterianism meant he took no further part in the 1638 to 1651 Wars of the Three Kingdoms. He died in Bruges in 1652. In his stated account of the war, Clarendon described him as 'a man of great honour, integrity, and piety, of great courage and industry, and an excellent officer for any command but the supreme, to which he was not equal'. Life Ralph ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ralph Hopton (died 1571)
Sir Ralph Hopton (1509/1510 – 14 December 1571), of Witham, Somerset, was an English courtier and politician. He was the son of a member of the Hopton family and Agnes Haines. In younger life a servant of Thomas Cromwell, in 1540 he was granted lease of the demesne lands of Ayshbury in Berkshire, a grange of Glastonbury Abbey which had been in dispute with the Bishop of Sarum. He became (knight) marshal of the Household from 1542. Witham Charterhouse, for grant in fee of the reversion of which (with its rents, site, lands and sundry associated tithes) he paid £573 in 1544, was the site of the earliest Carthusian priory in England. He was knighted in 1545. In 1549 he delivered the letters from Sir John Russell and William Herbert showing their support for Warwick against Lord Protector Somerset. He was surveyor for the Court of Augmentations for Somerset in 1550-1554, and built up a sizeable estate of former monastic property in that county. He continued his offices for the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Owen Hopton
Sir Owen Hopton (c. 1519 – 1595) was an English provincial landowner, administrator and MP, and was Lieutenant of the Tower of London from c. 1570 to 1590. Early career Owen Hopton was the eldest son and heir of Sir Arthur Hopton of Cockfield Hall, Yoxford, Suffolk, and his wife Anne, daughter of Sir David Owen of Cowdray House at Midhurst in West Sussex (uncle to King Henry VII). The manor of Blythburgh was confirmed to him by royal grant at the time of his father's death in 1555. He first became Member of Parliament for Suffolk in 1559: he was dubbed Knight Bachelor at Smallbridge Hall, (Sir) William Waldgrave's house in Suffolk, in 1561. He was Sheriff of Norfolk and Suffolk for 1564. Lady Katherine Grey Sir Owen Hopton's kindly treatment of Lady Katherine Grey, when she was by command of Queen Elizabeth, 2 October 1567, kept prisoner at Cockfield Hall during the last months of her life, probably won him the trust afterwards reposed in him by that often untrusting ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nicholas Hopton
Nicholas Dunster Hopton (born 8 October 1965) is a British diplomat who was the head of the UK embassy in Libya. Hopton was educated at St Peter's School, York and Magdalene College, Cambridge. He joined the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in 1989 and served in Paris, Rome and Rabat. He worked on the national security team at the Cabinet Office and was Private Secretary to the Minister of State for Europe. He assumed his first ambassadorial position as Ambassador to Yemen from 2012 to 2013, before serving as Ambassador to Qatar between 2013 and 2015. In December 2015 he was appointed British chargé d'affaires in Iran. Following the improvement in relations between the United Kingdom and Iran, Hopton was made Ambassador to Iran in September 2016 – the first British ambassador to the country since 2011. He was appointed chargé d'affaires at the British embassy in Libya in September 2019. He was succeeded by Caroline Hurndall in September 2021. From 2013 to 2014 Hopton was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Hopton (soldier)
Colonel John Hopton (born John Dutton Hunt; 30 December 1858 – 1 June 1934) was a British soldier, landowner, musician, and Olympic marksman. Biography Educated at Harrow and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, Hopton was commissioned into the British Army on 13 August 1879 as a second lieutenant in the Highland Light Infantry. He had a career in the Army Ordnance Department, and was Chief Inspector for Small Arms with the temporary rank of lieutenant-colonel from 1 October 1900. He received the substantive promotion to lieutenant-colonel on 29 October 1902. By 1908, he was on retired pay. He was one of the greatest rifle shots of his day. He represented England 36 times in the Elcho long-range Match against Scotland and Ireland, and captained the Great Britain team both at home and on tour in Australia. At the age of 49, he competed in the 1000 yard free rifle event at the 1908 Summer Olympics, placing 24th. 1000 yard free rifle was not contested at any Olympic Ga ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Hopton (naval Administrator)
John Hopton (c. 1470 – 1524) was an English naval officer and naval administrator who was appointed the first Clerk Comptroller of the Navy (1512–1524). He was one of the Clerks of His Majesty's Kings Marine who served under King Henry VIII of England. Career John Hopton was a gentleman usher of chamber of King Henry VIII, whom he served as both a naval officer and naval administrator. The King had ordered the construction of new dockyards at Erith and Limehouse, both in Kent, England as the Navy Royal was expanding. The workload of the Clerk of King's Ships, Robert Brygandine. was becoming too much for one official to handle and this led to the creation of a new office: in February 1512 Hopton was appointed Clerk Comptroller of the Navy. The King ordered the construction of new storehouses at Deptford and Erith, and in 1513 Hopton was also appointed Keeper of the Kings Storehouse at both those dockyards. Sharing responsibility with Brygandine, he had responsibility for s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
