HOPKINS, Sir Richard (d.1736), of St. Botolph’s, Bishopsgate, London.

Constituency Dates
London 11 Dec. 1724
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.