Family and Education
b. c. 1612, 3rd s. of Sampson Hopkins, draper (d.1622), of Coventry, being o.s. by 2nd w. Jane, da. of one Butts. educ. I. Temple, entered 1630, called 1639; Trinity Coll. Camb. 1631. m. Sarah, da. of William Jesson, dyer, of Coventry, 6s. (1 d.v.p.) 2da. Kntd. 1 Sept. 1660.Staffs. Peds. (Harl. Soc. lxiii), 130; PCC 47 Swann, 215 Grey, 109 Cottle; Burke, Commoners, iv. 120.
Offices Held
Steward of borough court, Coventry 1647 – d.; commr. for assessment, Coventry 1648 – 49, Aug. 1660–1, Warws. and Coventry 1650 – 52, Jan. 1660, 1661–80 Warws. 1657; j.p. Warws. 1649 – d.; commr. for militia, Warws. and Coventry 1659, Mar. 1660; bencher, I. Temple 1660, reader 1664; dep. lt. Coventry 1661 – d.; commr. for loyal and indigent officers, Warws. 1662.
Serjeant-at-law 1669 – d.
Parlimentarian
Main residences: Palace Yard, Earl Street, Coventry, Warws.; the Inner Temple.
Volume
Commons 1660-1690
Web Title
HOPKINS, Richard I (c.1612-82)
Will
Estates
Oxford 1644
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Religion
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