Emilius Hopkinson CMG DSO (31 March 1869 – 11 Jun 1951) was the son of Jonathan Hopkinson (1811–1882) and Emily Elizabeth née Cutbill (1838–1926). Educated at Haileybury, he graduated from

Trinity College, Oxford (That which you wish to be secret, tell to nobody) , named_for = The Holy Trinity , established = , sister_college = Churchill College, Cambridge , president = Dame Hilary Boulding , location = Broad Street, Oxford OX1 3BH , coordinates ...

and completed his medical training at

St Thomas' Hospital St Thomas' Hospital is a large NHS teaching hospital in Central London, England. It is one of the institutions that compose the King's Health Partners, an academic health science centre. Administratively part of the Guy's and St Thomas' NHS Foun ...

, London. He was a Medical Officer, a Surgeon-Captain, in the 15th Battalion, Imperial Yeomanry in South Africa from 1900–01 where he was mentioned in dispatches, awarded the Queen’s Medal with four clasps and the DSO. From 1901–29 he served in the Gambia Protectorate, as a Medical Officer from 1901–11 and then as Travelling Commissioner, and was awarded the CMG in 1922. He had a long interest in birds and aviculture and would bring live specimens back with him when on leave. After retirement, until the start of the Second World War, he would travel every winter to study bird migrations in West Africa and to visit warmer climes. His friend David Bannerman named a sub-species of

Ahanta spurfowl The Ahanta francolin or Ahanta spurfowl (''Pternistis ahantensis'') is a species of bird in the pheasant family, Phasianidae. It is native to western Africa, where it occurs in Benin, Ivory Coast, Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Liberia, Ma ...

found in Gambia ''Pternistis ahantensis hopkinsoni'' after him in 1930. He died in 1951 at his home in Balcombe,

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, England.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Hopkison, Emilius 1869 births 1951 deaths Alumni of Trinity College, Oxford