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Hopton Court
Hopton may refer to: Places in England *Hopton, Derbyshire *Hopton-on-Sea, Norfolk * Hopton (by Nesscliffe), Shropshire * Hopton Cangeford, Shropshire *Hopton Castle and Hopton Castle (village), Shropshire * Hopton Heath, Shropshire * Hopton Wafers, Shropshire *Hopton, Staffordshire *Hopton, Suffolk * Upper Hopton, West Yorkshire People *Arthur Hopton (1488–1555) of Cockfield Hall, Yoxford, Suffolk landowner, magistrate and MP *Arthur Hopton (died 1607), of Witham, Somerset, MP *Arthur Hopton (diplomat) (c.1588–1650), English diplomat who served as ambassador to Spain *John Hopton (died 1478) (c.1405–1478), landowner and administrator, Sheriff of Suffolk *John Hopton (naval administrator) (c.1470–1524), English naval officer and naval administrator *John Hopton (soldier) (1858–1934), British soldier, landowner, musician, and Olympic marksman *Nicholas Hopton (born 1965), British diplomat *Owen Hopton (c.1519–1595), Lieutenant of the Tower of London *Ralph Hopton (died 15 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hopton, Derbyshire
Hopton is a small village adjacent to the village of Carsington and two miles from the market town of Wirksworth in the Peak District. Evidence of humans visiting, possibly 200,000 years ago during a warm period known as the Aveley Interglacial, is given by the discovery of a Middle Paleolithic Acheulean hand axe nearby. Hopton is first mentioned in the Domesday book in 1086 as a berewick (supporting farm) of the town and manor of Wirksworth and its two main industries from ancient times have been farming and lead mining. Hopton lies just off the main B5035 road from Ashbourne to Wirksworth at the northern end of Carsington Water. The village had a long association with the Gell family, who have had assets in the Hopton since 1327, and had extensive lead mining interests in the Wirksworth area and lived at Hopton Hall. Notable members include Sir John Gell who was a Parliamentarian in the English Civil War and Sir William Gell who was an archaeologist. The famous Hopton Inc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arthur Hopton (died 1607)
Sir Arthur Hopton (died 20 November 1607), of Witham, Somerset, was an English politician. He was member of parliament for Dunwich in 1571, and for Suffolk in 1589. He was made a Knight of the Bath at the coronation of King James I.G.M.C., 'Hopton, Arthur (d.1607), of Blythburgh, Suff. and Witham Friary, Som.', in P.W. Hasler (ed.), ''The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1558-1603'' (from Boydell and Brewer 1981)History of Parliament Online Arthur was the first son of Sir Owen Hopton and Anne, elder daughter of Sir Edward Echyngham and Ann Everard. He married Rachel, daughter of Edmund Hall of Greatford, Lincolnshire: the marriage was arranged by May 1566. Rachel was the niece of William Willoughby, 1st Baron Willoughby of Parham, whose sister Dorothy Willoughby was the wife of Sir Ralph Hopton (died 1571). Sir Ralph Hopton, who made himself responsible for Rachel's upbringing, arranged her marriage to Arthur and settled the reversion of most of his lands upon them ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Hopton (died 1590)
Robert Hopton (died 1590), of Yoxford, Suffolk of St Mary Mounthaw, London, was Knight Marshal of the Household 1560-1577, and English Member of Parliament for Mitchell in 1563. He was a son of Sir Arthur Hopton of Cockfield Hall, Yoxford, and brother of Sir Owen Hopton, Lieutenant of the Tower of London. Ralph Hopton (died 1571) was appointed Knight Marshal of the Household in 1542, and continued in that office alone until 1556, when he stood down. However he was reappointed in 1558, and on 20 May 1560 Queen Elizabeth granted the office to Ralph Hopton, Knight, and Robert Hopton together for life in survivorship. In 1561 his servant Roger Ratcliffe confessed to involvement in a highway robbery. An important prisoner at this time in the Marshalsea Court was Edmund Bonner, whom they escorted to the Court of King's Bench in October 1564. Sir Ralph Hopton decided to perpetuate his surname in his patrimony of Witham Friary, Somerset, by arranging an alliance between his wife's niec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ralph Hopton, 1st Baron Hopton
Ralph Hopton, 1st Baron Hopton, (159628 September 1652), was an English politician, soldier and landowner. During the 1642 to 1646 First English Civil War, he served as Royalist commander in the West Country, and was made Baron Hopton of Stratton in 1643. Along with his close friend Sir Edward Hyde (later the Earl of Clarendon), he was made advisor to the future Charles II, when he was appointed to rule the West in early 1644. He commanded the last significant Royalist field army, and followed Charles into exile after surrendering in March 1646. A devout supporter of the Church of England, his personal opposition to Catholicism and Presbyterianism meant he took no further part in the 1638 to 1651 Wars of the Three Kingdoms. He died in Bruges in 1652. In his stated account of the war, Clarendon described him as 'a man of great honour, integrity, and piety, of great courage and industry, and an excellent officer for any command but the supreme, to which he was not equal'. Li ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ralph Hopton (died 1571)
Sir Ralph Hopton (1509/1510 – 14 December 1571), of Witham, Somerset, was an English courtier and politician. He was the son of a member of the Hopton family and Agnes Haines. In younger life a servant of Thomas Cromwell, in 1540 he was granted lease of the demesne lands of Ayshbury in Berkshire, a grange of Glastonbury Abbey which had been in dispute with the Bishop of Sarum. He became (knight) marshal of the Household from 1542. Witham Charterhouse, for grant in fee of the reversion of which (with its rents, site, lands and sundry associated tithes) he paid £573 in 1544, was the site of the earliest Carthusians, Carthusian priory in England. He was knighted in 1545. In 1549 he delivered the letters from John Russell, 1st Earl of Bedford, Sir John Russell and William Herbert, 1st Earl of Pembroke (died 1570), William Herbert showing their support for John Dudley, 1st Duke of Northumberland, Warwick against Edward Seymour, 1st Duke of Somerset, Lord Protector Somerset. He was ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Owen Hopton
Sir Owen Hopton (c. 1519 – 1595) was an English provincial landowner, administrator and MP, and was Lieutenant of the Tower of London from c. 1570 to 1590. Early career Owen Hopton was the eldest son and heir of Sir Arthur Hopton of Cockfield Hall, Yoxford, Suffolk, and his wife Anne, daughter of Sir David Owen of Cowdray House at Midhurst in West Sussex (uncle to King Henry VII). The manor of Blythburgh was confirmed to him by royal grant at the time of his father's death in 1555. He first became Member of Parliament for Suffolk in 1559: he was dubbed Knight Bachelor at Smallbridge Hall, (Sir) William Waldgrave's house in Suffolk, in 1561. He was Sheriff of Norfolk and Suffolk for 1564. Lady Katherine Grey Sir Owen Hopton's kindly treatment of Lady Katherine Grey, when she was by command of Queen Elizabeth, 2 October 1567, kept prisoner at Cockfield Hall during the last months of her life, probably won him the trust afterwards reposed in him by that often untrusting ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nicholas Hopton
Nicholas Dunster Hopton (born 8 October 1965) is a British diplomat who was the head of the UK embassy in Libya. Hopton was educated at St Peter's School, York and Magdalene College, Cambridge. He joined the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in 1989 and served in Paris, Rome and Rabat. He worked on the national security team at the Cabinet Office and was Private Secretary to the Minister of State for Europe. He assumed his first ambassadorial position as British Ambassador to Yemen, Ambassador to Yemen from 2012 to 2013, before serving as List of diplomats of the United Kingdom to Qatar, Ambassador to Qatar between 2013 and 2015. In December 2015 he was appointed British chargé d'affaires in Iran. Following the improvement in Iran–United Kingdom relations, relations between the United Kingdom and Iran, Hopton was made List of diplomats of the United Kingdom to Iran, Ambassador to Iran in September 2016 – the first British ambassador to the country since 2011. He was appointed ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Hopton (soldier)
Colonel John Hopton (born John Dutton Hunt; 30 December 1858 – 1 June 1934) was a British soldier, landowner, musician, and Olympic marksman. Biography Educated at Harrow and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, Hopton was commissioned into the British Army on 13 August 1879 as a second lieutenant in the Highland Light Infantry. He had a career in the Army Ordnance Department, and was Chief Inspector for Small Arms with the temporary rank of lieutenant-colonel Lieutenant colonel ( , ) is a rank of commissioned officers in the armies, most marine forces and some air forces of the world, above a major and below a colonel. Several police forces in the United States use the rank of lieutenant colo ... from 1 October 1900. He received the substantive promotion to lieutenant-colonel on 29 October 1902. By 1908, he was on retired pay. He was one of the greatest rifle shots of his day. He represented England 36 times in the Elcho long-range Match against Scotland ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Hopton (naval Administrator)
John Hopton (c. 1470 – 1524) was an English naval officer and naval administrator who was appointed the first Clerk Comptroller of the Navy (1512–1524). He was one of the Clerks of His Majesty's Kings Marine who served under King Henry VIII of England. Career John Hopton was a gentleman usher of chamber of King Henry VIII, whom he served as both a naval officer and naval administrator. The King had ordered the construction of new dockyards at Erith and Limehouse, both in Kent, England as the Navy Royal was expanding. The workload of the Clerk of King's Ships, Robert Brygandine. was becoming too much for one official to handle and this led to the creation of a new office: in February 1512 Hopton was appointed Clerk Comptroller of the Navy. The King ordered the construction of new storehouses at Deptford and Erith, and in 1513 Hopton was also appointed Keeper of the Kings Storehouse at both those dockyards. Sharing responsibility with Brygandine, he had responsibility for ships ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Hopton (died 1478)
John Hopton (about 1405–1478) was an English landowner and administrator with estates in Suffolk and Yorkshire who was active in local government during the reigns of King Henry VI and King Edward IV. Origins John Hopton, Esq. was a son of Thomas Hopton (died before 1428) and his wife Margaret, daughter of William Pert of Terrington and his wife Joan Scrope. His father was the illegitimate child of Joan Hopton (from a gentry family with lands near Swillington, Yorkshire) by Sir Robert Swillington, Chamberlain of the Household to John of Gaunt. Sir Robert de Swillington made his home in his wife's family seat of Kirby Bellars in Leicestershire, where he died in 1391 and was buried in the priory there. His son Roger de Swillington had livery of a large estate, but Sir Robert's will also left £20 to his natural son Thomas Hopton. Sir Robert had previously given lands in Blythburgh, Suffolk, to the friars-preachers there. An earlier Robert de Swillington had acquired two part ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arthur Hopton (diplomat)
Sir Arthur Hopton (c. 1588 to 1650) was an English diplomat who spent most of his career in Madrid, where he was Resident Agent from 1630 to 1636, then Ambassador from 1638 to 1645. Uncle of Sir Ralph Hopton, a Royalist general during the 1642 to 1646 First English Civil War, Sir Arthur was rarely paid, and was unable to achieved much, but left detailed memoranda on his activities. He returned to England in 1648, where he died on 6 March 1650. Life Hopton was the fifth son of Sir Arthur Hopton, circa 1545 to 1607, and Rachael Hall. He was born on his father's estates in Blythburgh, Suffolk, which were sold a few years later to provide dowries for his ten sisters. The family relocated to Witham Friary in Somerset, acquired from Glastonbury Abbey after the Dissolution of the Monasteries in 1538. His grandfather, Sir Owen Hopton, was Lieutenant of the Tower of London from 1573 to 1590, and his father High Sheriff of Somerset in 1583. Sir Arthur never married, and left his prope ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arthur Hopton (1488–1555)
Sir Arthur Hopton (1488–15/16 August 1555) of Cockfield Hall in Yoxford, Suffolk was an English knight, landowner, magistrate, and Member of Parliament. The Hoptons at Blythburgh and Yoxford John Hopton (c. 1405-1478), Sir Arthur's great-grandfather, was of Yorkshire background. His father Thomas was the acknowledged natural son of Sir Robert de Swyllington (died 1391), of Swillington in Yorkshire (between Temple Newsam and Methley, south-east of Leeds), who also held lands around Blythburgh in Suffolk. Sir Robert's son Sir Roger (died 1417) developed his Suffolk holdings: when, in 1428, after a series of deaths, Sir Robert was shown to have entailed his estates upon Thomas Hopton and his heirs, the Yorkshire and Suffolk estates descended around 1430 to John Hopton. John purchased Cockfield Hall at Yoxford from Sir John Fastolf in 1440, but had for his principal residence the manor of Westwood at Blythburgh, midway between Blythburgh village and Priory and his quay at Walber ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
