HOPTON, Sir Ralph (1509/10-71), of Witham, Som.

Family and Education

b. 1509 /10, s. of one Hopton by Agnes Haines. m. bef. 1545, Dorothy, da. of Sir Christopher Willoughby of Parham, Suff. s.p.Aged 41 in 1551, Foxe, Acts and Mons. vi. 191, C142/162/140; LP Hen. VIII, xix-xx; Collins, Peerage (1812), vi. 610.

Offices Held

Servant, household of Cromwell by 1538, knight marshal, the Household 26 Aug. 1542 – 11 May 1556, Dec. 1558–60, jt. (with Robert Hopton) knight marshal 1560 – d.; surveyor, ct. augmentations, Som. July 1551–4, Exchequer 1554 – d.; j.p.q. Som. 1558/59–d.M. L. Robertson, ‘Cromwell’s servants’ (Univ. California Los Angeles Ph.D. thesis, 1975), 501; LP Hen. VIII, xiii, xviii; The Gen. n.s. xxx. 21; APC, vii. 25; E315/223, f. 181.

Parlimentarian

HOPTON, Sir Ralph (1509/10-71), of Witham, Som.

Main residence: Witham, Som.

Author

R.V.

Volume

Commons 1509-1558

Web Title

HOPTON, Sir Ralph (1509/10-71)

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Estates

Oxford 1644

Addresses

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