Ezekiel Hopkins (died 1690) was an Anglican

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, who was

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from 1681 to 1690.

Life

He was born in

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, and was educated at Merchant Taylors' School and Magdalen College, Oxford, where he was a chorister from 1648 to 1653, and graduated B.A. in 1655 and M.A. in 1656. After 1660 he was assistant to

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in Hackney, but he conformed after the Act of Uniformity 1662, becoming a lecturer in London. In 1666, he became minister of St Mary Arches, Exeter. Lord Robartes appointed Hopkins his chaplain on becoming Lord Lieutenant of Ireland in 1669. Hopkins became

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in 1669."Fasti Ecclesiae Hibernicae: The succession of the prelates Volume 13" p150 Cotton,H.

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, Hodges & Smith, 1848-1878 In 1670 he became

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and the following year

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. His translation to Derry was in 1681. In 1689 he returned to England, becoming preacher at St Mary Aldermanbury, and dying on 19 June 1690.

Works

His written legacy includes his ''Expositions of the Ten Commandments'', which remains in print in the modern era.

Family

Hopkins married, first, Alicia Moore (d.1681), a niece of Sir Robert Viner, sometime

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, to whom he dedicated his ''Vanity of the World''. By her, he had two sons, Charles (1664–1700), poet and dramatist, and

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(born 1675), the author of ''Amasia''. In 1685, at

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, Ezekiel Hopkins married his second wife, Lady Araminta Robartes, the eldest daughter of

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, by his second wife, Isabella, daughter of Sir John Smith. By his second wife he was the father of Francis, who was the grandfather of Sir Francis Hopkins M.P., 1st

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* ;Attribution {{DEFAULTSORT:Hopkins, Ezekiel 1634 births 1690 deaths Deans of Raphoe Anglican bishops of Derry Anglican bishops of Raphoe