Reverend Francis Hopkinson
(1811-1897)
16 January 1861

Volume 2, page 157, sitting number 1918.

Born in 1810, Francis Hopkinson was the son of Francis Hopkinson of Peterborough. He was educated at Uppingham School and at Magdalene College, Cambridge. He was ordained a deacon in 1844 and became a priest in 1845. He was the Curate of Walcot and Willoughby Scott in Lincolnshire (1846-47), the Curate of Hawksworth in Nottinghamshire (1849-51), Perpetual Curate of Cove in Hampshire (1851-56) and Curate of Christ Church, Paddington (1856-1859). 

Between 1859 and 1869 Reverend Francis Hopkinson was Perpetual Curate of St Peter's, Malvern Wells, Worcestershire. He appears on the 1861 census, living at 'The Dell' in Malvern Wells with his wife, Ellen, and their five servants. 

Reverend Francis Hopkinson died at 'The Dell' in Malvern Wells on 18 January 1898, at the age of 87. He left an estate valued at £51,427. According to the terms of his will, he left the sum of £200, the interest on which was to be used to purchase packets of tea, to be given on the anniversary of the donor's birth (23 February) to deserving poor inhabitants.

[From an album compiled by Captain Henry Langton and his younger brother, Francis Langton.]