HOPKINS, Edward (1674/75-1736), of Coventry, Warws.

Family and Education

bap. 5 Jan. 1675, o. s. of Richard Hopkins*. educ. Eton c.1687–92; Trinity, Oxf. 1692; travelled abroad (Flanders, France, Italy) 1696–1700. m. 1 Mar. 1725, Anna Maria, da. and coh. of Hugh Chamberlayne, MD, of St. Paul’s, Covent Garden, Mdx., and Alderton Manor and Hinton Hall, Suff., 3s. 2da. suc. fa. 1708. IGI, Warws.; Eton Coll. Reg. ed. Sterry, 179; Poole, Hist. and Antiqs. Coventry, 140.

Offices Held

Commr. of revenue [I] 1716– Mar. 1722; chief sec. [I] 1721–4; PC [I] 11 Sept. 1721–d.; master of the revels [I] Oct. 1722–d. Liber Munerum Publicorum Hiberniae ed. Lascelles, pt. 2, pp. 93, 194; Procs. R. Irish Acad. lxxvii (1977), C, no. 1, p. 25; A. B. Beaven’s list of Irish PCs (Hist. of Parl. trans.).

MP [I] 1721–7.

Freeman, Dublin 1721. Cal. Ancient Recs. Dublin ed. Gilbert, vii. 167.

Parlimentarian

HOPKINS, Edward (?1675-1736), of Coventry.

Main residence: Coventry, Warws.

Author

D.W.H.

Volume

Commons 1690-1715

Web Title

HOPKINS, Edward (1674/75-1736)

Will

Estates

Oxford 1644

Addresses

Religion

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