Constituency Dates
London 11 Dec. 1724 – 1727
Family and Education
b. aft. 1676, s. of Richard Hopkins of St. Botolph’s by Rose, da. of George Sherard of Bushby, Leics.1Chester, London Marriage Licences; Nichols, Illus. of Lit. Hist. i. 411-12; PCC 34 Derby. m. Ann, da. of William Lethieullier, London merchant, s.p. Kntd. 26 July 1722.
Offices Held

Director, R. Exchange Assurance 1720, S. Sea Co. 1721 – d., sub-gov. S. Sea. Co. 1733 – d., gov. London Assurance; Cutlers’ Co., transferred to Fishmongers’ 1730, prime warden, Fishmongers’ Co. 1730 – 32; sheriff, London 1723 – 24, alderman 1724.

Address
Main residence: St. Botolph's, Bishopsgate, London.
biography text

Hopkins, a Turkey merchant,2Pol. State, xxviii. 526-7. stood as a Whig in the fiercely contested sheriffs’ election of 1723.3A. J. Henderson, London and the National Government, 84-93. Returned for London at a by-election in 1724, he was unsuccessful in 1727. He died 2 Jan. 1736, the senior alderman below the chair, said to be worth £100,000.4Hist. Reg. 1736, chron. p. 13.

Author
E.C.
Volume
Commons 1715-1754
Notes
  • 1. Chester, London Marriage Licences; Nichols, Illus. of Lit. Hist. i. 411-12; PCC 34 Derby.
  • 2. Pol. State, xxviii. 526-7.
  • 3. A. J. Henderson, London and the National Government, 84-93.
  • 4. Hist. Reg. 1736, chron. p. 13.