Constituency Dates
Hereford 1741 – 1747
Family and Education
bap. 9 Feb. 1708, o.s. of Richard Hopton. educ. Ch. Ch. Oxf. 1725. m. 1 Mar. 1733, Mary, da. and h. of Timothy Briggenshaw of St. John’s Bredwardine, Herefs., 1s. 1da.
Offices Held

High steward, Worcester 1751.

Address
Main residence: Canon Frome, nr. Hereford.
biography text

Returned as a Tory for Hereford in 1741, Hopton voted consistently against the Government. On the opposition motion of 21 Jan. 1742 to set up a secret committee to inquire into the war, he was ‘carried in with crutches’.1Sir Robt. Wilmot to Devonshire, 23 Jan. 1742, Devonshire mss. He did not stand again, dying 24 Apr. 1754.

Author
A.N.N.
Volume
Commons 1715-1754
Notes
  • 1. Sir Robt. Wilmot to Devonshire, 23 Jan. 1742, Devonshire mss.