John Hopkinson (priest)

John Henry Hopkinson was Archdeacon of Westmorland from 1931 until 1944.[1]

Personal Life and Early Education

The son of Sir Alfred Hopkinson, K.C.; nephew of John Hopkinson, the physicist and Edward Hopkinson, the electrical engineer; and brother of Austin Hopkinson, M.P., he was educated at Dulwich College and University College, Oxford. He died on 22 October 1957.[2]

Career

He was a Lecturer in Greek at Birmingham University then Warden of Hulme Hall, Manchester and a Lecturer in Archaeology at the University of Manchester from 1904 to 1914 before his ordination in 1914.[3] Then he served as a Private in the RAMC during World War I. He held incumbencies at Holy Trinity Church, Colne; Christ Church, Moss Side; St Oswald, Burneside and Christ Church, Cockermouth. He was also Diocesan Organiser of Religious Education and Examining Chaplain to the Bishop of Carlisle from 1928 to 1944.

Notes
  1. ‘HOPKINSON, Rev. John Henry’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2015; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2014 ; online edn, April 2014 accessed 23 July 2015
  2. The Rev. J. H. Hopkinson. The Times (London, England), Thursday, Oct 24, 1957; pg. 14; Issue 53980
  3. Crockford's Clerical Directory; p 632: Oxford, OUP 19129



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