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HOOD, Peter. b. Gateshead 1808; ed. at St. George’s hospital; L.S.A. 1831, M.D. St. Andrews 1863; practised in London among the upper classes; discouraged the practice of blood letting; a keen sportsman, fly fisher and whist player; treasurer of Fisheries’ preservation soc.; president West Herts. medical assoc.; author of Practical observations on diseases fatal to children 1845; The successful treatment of scarlet fever 1857; A treatise on gout, rheumatism and the allied affections 1871, 3 ed. 1885. d. Watford, Herts. 18 Sep. 1890. Lancet 27 Sep. 1890 p. 699.

HOOD, Rev. Samuel. b. Devizes 27 Dec. 1782; received episcopal ordination at Stirling, May 1826; minister of congregation in Trinity house, Dundee 1826–37; restored episcopacy at Rothesay and was minister there 1838, helped to establish seven churches in his district; dean of diocese of Argyle and the Isles 1847 to death; D.D. by archbishop of Canterbury 1870. d. Rothesay 30 May 1872. Norrie’s Dundee celebrities (1873) 392.

HOOD, Samuel. b. Moyle, co. Donegal 1800; emigrated to Philadelphia 1826, a member of the bar there; author of Practical treatise on the laws relating to registers, registers’ courts, guardians and trustees in Pennsylvania 1847; A practical treatise on the law of decedents in Pennsylvania 1847; A brief account of the Society of the Friendly Sons of St. Patrick 1844. d. Philadelphia 1875.

HOOD, Thomas (only son of Thomas Hood the poet 1798–1845). b. Lake house, Wanstead, Essex 19 Jany. 1835; granted a civil list pension of £50, 4 Oct. 1847; commoner at Pemb. coll. Ox. 1853; edited the Liskeard Gazette 1858–59; clerk in the war office 11 July 1860 to May 1865; edited a periodical called Saturday Night 1862; edited Fun, May 1865 to death; Tom Hood’s Comic Annual first issued 1867; author of Captain Master’s children 3 vols. 1865; A golden heart 3 vols. 1868; Rules of rhyme, a guide to English versification 1869 and many other books. d. Gloucester cottage, Peckham Rye, Surrey 20 Nov. 1874. Poems by Thomas Hood the younger, with a memoir by his sister Frances Freeling Broderip 1877; Cartoon portraits (1873) 64–65, portrait; Illust. sporting news, iv, 357 (1865), portrait.

HOOD, Thomas H. Cockburn. b. 1820; in Australia and New Zealand to 1877; inherited Walton hall, Kelso from a relative; author of The Rutherfords of that ilk 188-; The house of Cockburn, with anecdotes of the times in which many of them played a part, Edin. 1888, and of many scientific papers. d. Edinburgh 16 Jany. 1889. The Bookseller 6 March 1889 p. 228.

HOOD, Sir William Charles (only son of Dr. William Chamberlayne Hood, d. Berners st. hotel, London 16 Dec. 1879 aged 89). b. South Lambeth 1824; ed. at Brighton and Trin. coll. Dublin; M.D. St. Andrews 1846; F.R.C.P. Edin. 1850; F.R.C.P. London 1863; treasurer of Bridewell and Bethlehem hospital July 1868 to death; lord chancellor’s visitor in lunacy to death; knighted at Windsor castle 7 July 1868. d. Bridewell royal hospital, London 4 Jany. 1870.

HOOF, William. b. 1788; a railway contractor. d. Madeley house, Kensington 11 Aug. 1855, leaving property exceeding half a million.

HOOK, Anna Delicia (dau. of John Johnson, physician, Birmingham). b. 1812; author of Some Meditations for every day in the year 1864; The Cross of Christ 1855 which was edited by her husband; (m. June 1829 Rev. Walter Farquhar Hook 1798–1875). d. 5 May 1871 aged 59 bur. churchyard of Mid Lavant near Chichester 11 May.

HOOK, Very Rev. Walter Farquhar (eld. child of Very Rev. James Hook 1771–1828, dean of Worcester). b. Conduit st. London 13 March 1798; ed. at Hertford, Tiverton, Winchester, and Ch. Ch. Ox., B.A. 1821, M.A. 1824, B.D. and D.D. 1837, student of Ch. Ch. 1817; C. of Whippingham, Isle of Wight 1821–25; P.C. of Moseley near Birmingham 1826–31; chaplain in ord. to the sovereign 1827 to death; V. of Holy Trin. Coventry 1828 to 1837; preb. of Linc. cath. 1832 to 1859; select preacher univ. of Ox. 1833–34 and 1858–59; V. of Leeds 1837 to 1859; preached his famous sermon Hear the Church before the Queen 17 June 1838, 31 ed. 1841, circulated 100,000 copies; dean of Chichester 24 Feb. 1859 to death, installed 19 March 1859; F.R.S. 5 June 1862; author of A Church Dictionary 1842, 14 ed. 1887; An ecclesiastical biography 8 vols. 1845–52; Lives of the archbishops of Canterbury 12 vols. 1860–76 and about 70 other books. d. the deanery, Chichester 20 Oct. 1875, memorial church at Leeds consecrated 29 Jany. 1880. Life and letters of W. F. Hook By W. R. W. Stephens 2 vols. 1878; Illust. news of the world, iii, (1859), portrait; Dent’s Birmingham (1880) 427, portrait; Graphic xii, 447, 448 (1875), portrait.

HOOKER, Sir William Jackson (son of Joseph Hooker of Exeter). b. Norwich 6 July 1785; ed. at Norwich gram. sch.; travelled for scientific purposes 1806–14; F.L.S. 1806; F.R.S. 9 Jany. 1812; lived at Halesworth, Suffolk 1815–20; regius prof. of botany Glasgow 1820–41; K.H. 1836; knighted at St. James’ palace 20 April 1836; director of royal gardens, Kew 1841 to death, chief agent in building the palm house and the temperate house, and a founder of the museum of economic botany; LLD. of Glasgow; D.C.L. of Ox. 1845; author of Exotic flora, 3 vols. 1823–7; Icones plantarum 10 vols. 1827–54; The Botanical Mag. 38 vols. 1827–65; British flora 2 vols. 1830–1, many editions; Species filicum 5 vols. 1846–64 and 35 other books and many papers. d. Kew 12 Aug. 1865. Proc. of R. Soc. xv, 25–30 (1867); Proc. Med. and Chir. Soc. v, 150, 162 (1867); Jerdan’s National Portrait gallery (1834) v, portrait; Taylor’s National Portrait gallery ii, 95, portrait.

HOOLE, Elijah (son of Holland Hoole, shoe maker). b. Manchester 3 Feb. 1798; ed. at Manchester gr. sch. 1809–13; Wesleyan methodist missionary in Madras 1820–8 during which time he published a number of translations in Tamil; a superintendent of schools in Ireland 1829–34; assistant sec. in London of Wesleyan Missionary Soc. 1834, one of the general secretaries 1836 to death; author of Personal narrative of a mission to the south of India from 1820–8, 1829, 2 ed. 1844; The year-book of missions 1847. d. 30 Russell sq. London 17 June 1872. T. F. Smith’s Manchester School Reg. iii, pt. 1, pp. 45, 290.

HOOPER, Edward. b. 1795; officer in navy; first appeared at Drury Lane as Colonel Briton, Sep. 1826; acting manager at Olympic 1832; lessee of St. James’s 1839; manager of Strand 1848; proprietor of Cambridge theatre to death. (m. Miss Brothers, she was b. 1800, first appeared at Drury Lane as Mrs. Haller 19 Feb. 1827 and was a well-known actress at St. James’s theatre). d. Cambridge 27 Jany. 1865 aged 70.

HOOPER, Edward. b. London 24 May 1829; ed. in London; member of firm of Bobbett and Hooper, wood engravers 1850 to death; an originator of the American water colour soc.; exhibited water colours at the Academy of design; engraved illustrations for Festivals of song, By F. Saunders 1866. d. Brooklyn, New York 13 Dec. 1870.

HOOPER, Frederic Edward Eden. b. 1842; clerk in the Admiralty, London; wrote many verses on Christmas and other cards; author of The Indian revolt. A poem, part i, 1858. d. 12 Feb. 1886.

HOOPER, George. b. Oxford 1824; a journalist in London 1848–86; helped to start The Leader weekly paper 1850; wrote for The Globe and The Spectator; edited Bombay Gazette at Bombay 1868–71; on staff of Daily Telegraph, London 1872–86; author of The Italian campaigns of general Bonaparte 1859; Waterloo, the downfall of the first Napoleon 1862, new ed. 1890; The campaign of Sedan 1887; Wellington, a memoir 1889. d. Southsea 15 May 1890. I.L.N. 31 May 1890 p. 680, portrait; Pictorial World 29 May 1890 p. 697, portrait.

HOOPER, John. b. Oxford 1802; went to U.S. of America 1839 and devoted himself to natural science; made collection of marine algæ which he left to Long island historical soc. d. Brooklyn, New York 26 April 1869. Appleton’s American Biog. iii, 252 (1887).

HOOPER, John Kinnersley (3 son of Richard Hooper of Queenhithe and Limpsfield, Surrey). b. 1791; wine merchant as Richard Hooper and Sons, 20 Queenhithe, London to death; alderman of Queenhithe ward 1840 to death, sheriff 1842–43, lord mayor 1847–48; received the French national guard at the mansion house 23 Oct. 1848; pres. of St. Bartholomew’s hospital. d. St. Leonards-on-Sea 17 April 1854. I.L.N. xi, 309 (1847), portrait.

HOOPER, William. b. 1819; a chemist; manufacturer of india-rubber goods 7 Pall Mall East, London and at Mitcham, Surrey 1857–78; inventor and manufacturer of india rubber insulated telegraph cables which he patented 19 March 1868; founder of Hooper’s Telegraph Co. in London 1870. d. Beechwood, Clapham common, Surrey 25 Sep. 1878. Journal Soc. of Arts 1 Nov. 1878 p. 964.

HOOPER, William Hulme. b. 1827; mate of the Plover, R.N. Nov. 1847 and lieut. 12 May 1849, in the expedition to search for Sir John Franklin, sailed from Plymouth 30 Jany. 1848, reached Port Providence 16 Oct. 1848, led a party along the coast as far as Cape Atcheen, learned the language of the natives, returned to England Oct. 1851; author of Ten months among the tents of the Tuski, with incidents of an Arctic boat expedition in search of Sir John Franklin 1853. d. Brompton, London 19 May 1854.

HOPE, Adrian (6 son of 4 Earl of Hopetown 1765–1823). b. Hopetown house, Linlithgowshire 3 March 1821; 2 lieut. 60 rifles 23 Nov. 1838, served in Kafir war 1851–3; major 1855; lieut. col. 93 Highlanders 25 Jany. 1856 to death; commanded brigade in Crimea 1854–5; C.B. 24 March 1858; killed in attack on fort at Rowas 14 April 1858. Martin’s Indian empire, ii, 493 (1876), portrait.

HOPE, Alexander James Beresford Beresford- (youngest son of Thomas Hope of Deepdene, Surrey 1770–1831). b. 25 Jany. 1820; ed. at Harrow and Trin. coll. Cam., B.A. 1841, M.A. 1844, D.C.L. 1848, hon. LLD. 1864; LLD. Washington and Tennessee 1879, LLD. Dublin 1881; M.P. for Maidstone 1841–52 and 1857–65; contested Univ. of Cam. 1859 and Stoke-upon-Trent 1862; M.P. for Stoke 1865–8, M.P. for Univ. of Cam. 1868 to death; bought St. Augustine’s abbey, Canterbury as a college for missionary clergy 1844; built All Saints’ church, Margaret st. London 1849; joint owner of Saturday Review with John Douglas Cook 1855; took additional surname of Beresford 30 May 1854; P.C. 20 April 1880; possessed a collection of pictures and objects of art at 1 Connaught place, London; author of Poems 1843; Essays 1844; The English cathedral of the nineteenth century 1861; A popular view of the American civil war 1861, 3 ed. 1861; Worship in the Church of England 1874, 2 ed. 1875; Strictly tied up 3 vols. 1880, a novel, anon. 3 ed. 1881; The Brandreths 3 vols. 1882, a novel, and 24 other books. d. Bedgebury park, Cranbrook, Kent 20 Oct. 1887. C. Brown’s Life of Beaconsfield (1882) i, 194, portrait; Waagen’s Galleries of art (1857) 189–92; I.L.N. 16 May 1857 pp. 477, 479, portrait.

HOPE, Anne (2 dau. of John Williamson Fulton of Calcutta, merchant). b. Calcutta 1809. (m. 10 March 1831 James Hope, physician 1801–41); joined Church of Rome, Nov. 1850; author of The acts of the early martyrs 1855; The lives of the early martyrs 1857; Life of St. Philip Neri 1859; Conversion of the Teutonic race 2 vols. 1872; Franciscan martyrs in England 1878; wrote many articles in Dublin Review 1872–9. d. St. Marychurch, Torquay 2 Feb. 1887. Gillow’s English Catholics iii, 375.

HOPE, Charles, Lord Granton (eld. son of John Hope of London, merchant 1739–85). b. 29 June 1763; admitted advocate 11 Dec. 1784; a depute advocate 1786; sheriff of Orkney 5 June 1792; lord advocate June 1801 to Nov. 1804; M.P. for Dumfries district 1802–3, for city of Edin. 1803–4; a lord of session and lord justice clerk 20 Nov. 1804, assumed title of lord Granton; lord pres. of court of session 12 Nov. 1811 to 1841; P.C. Scotland 17 Aug. 1822, lord justice general Dec. 1836 to 1841; lieut. general of royal archers of Scotland; author of Notes by the lord president on the subject of hearing counsel in the Inner House 1826. d. Moray place, Edinburgh 30 Oct. 1851. Omond’s Lord Advocates of Scotland ii, 205–23; Kay’s Original Portraits ii, 246–55 (1885), 3 portraits; Lockhart’s Peter’s Letters to his kinsfolk, ii, 102–8 (1819).

HOPE, Charles Webley. b. 21 April 1829; entered navy 1842; captain 15 May 1861; A.D.C. to the Queen 12 Feb. 1873 to 1 Aug. 1877; R.A. 1 Aug. 1877; superintendent of Devonport dockyard 1 Feb. 1879 to death; F.R.G.S.; author of The education and training of naval officers 1869. d. Devonport dockyard 13 Feb. 1880.

HOPE, Rev. Frederick William (2 son of John Thomas Hope of Netley, Salop 1761–1854). b. 37 Upper Seymour st. Portman sq. London 3 Jany. 1797; ed. at Ch. Ch. Ox., B.A. 1820, M.A. 1823, hon. D.C.L. 1855; C. of Frodesley, Salop 1823; F.R.S. to 1851 when he withdrew; F.L.S. 5 March 1822; one of founders of Zoological Soc. 1826, of Entomological Soc. 1833, president 1835–37; resided at Naples and Nice 1840–62; executed in 1849 a deed of gift giving his collection of fishes, crustacea, birds, shells, books and 230,000 engravings to Univ. of Oxford, his fishes, etc. were removed to the New Museum and his engravings to Radcliffe library 1861; founded and endowed a professorship of zoology in the Univ. of Ox. 1861; author of Buprestidae 1835; The Coleopterist’s Manual 3 parts 1837–40 and of about 60 papers on entomological subjects. d. 37 Upper Seymour st. London 15 April 1862. Journal British Archæol. Assoc. xix, 157–62 (1863); Proc. Linnæan society (1862) 90–93; J. O. Westwood’s Thesaurus Entomologicus Oxon. (1874) pp. xvii-xxiv.

HOPE, George (2 son of Robert Hope, tenant farmer). b. Fenton, East Lothian 2 Jany. 1811; farmer at Fenton Barns to 1875; did much to improve the agriculture of East Lothian, his farm was well-known in America and on the continent; gained a prize of £30 offered by the Anti-Corn-law league for an essay on Agriculture and the corn laws 1842; contributed Hindrances to agriculture from a tenant farmer’s point of view to Recess Studies, Edited by Sir A. Grant, Edinburgh 1870; contested Haddingtonshire 1865 and East Aberdeenshire 1875. d. Broadlands, Berwickshire 1 Dec. 1876. Memoir of George Hope, By His Daughter (1881).

HOPE, George William (2 son of general the hon. Sir Alexander Hope 1769–1837). b. Blackheath 4 July 1808; ed. at Ch. Ch. Ox., B.A. 1828, M.A. 1830; barrister L.I. 28 Jany. 1831; M.P. for Weymouth 1837 to 1841 when unseated on petition; M.P. for Southampton 1842–6; M.P. for New Windsor 1859 to death; under sec. of state for the colonies 8 Sep. 1841 to 8 Jany. 1846. d. Luffness, Haddingtonshire 18 Oct. 1863. I.L.N. vi, 184 (1845), portrait.

HOPE, Sir Henry (eld. child of Charles Hope, captain R.N., d. 10 Sep. 1808). b. 1787; entered navy 2 April 1798, captain 24 May 1808, captain of the Endymion May 1813, captured the American frigate President 15 Jany. 1815; C.B. 4 June 1815, K.C.B. 5 July 1855; A.D.C. to the sovereign 1831–46; admiral 20 Jany. 1858. d. Holly hill, Hants. 23 Sep. 1863.

HOPE, Henry Thomas (eldest bro. of Alexander J. B. Hope 1820–87). b. 1808; ed. at Trin. coll. Cam., M.A. 1829; M.P. East Looe 1830–2; M.P. Gloucester 1833–41 and 1847–52; a great patron of architectural art; erected a residence 116 Piccadilly, now known as the Junior Athenæum club; sold Trenant park, Cornwall and purchased Castle Blaney, Ireland; possessed a collection of marble statues, vases and Italian and Dutch pictures. d. 116 Piccadilly, London 4 Dec. 1862, personalty sworn under £300,000, 17 Jany. 1863. Waagen’s Treasures of Art, ii, 112–24 (1854); I.L.N. xxxii, 352 (1858).

HOPE, Sir James (only son of Sir George Hope, K.C.B. 1767–1818). b. 3 March 1808; entered royal naval college 1 Aug. 1820; captain 28 June 1838; commander in chief East Indies 25 Jany. 1859 to 8 Feb. 1862, in North America and West Indies 7 Jany. 1864 to 10 Jany. 1867, and at Portsmouth 25 Feb. 1869 to 1 March 1872; admiral 21 Jany. 1870, retired March 1878, admiral of the fleet 15 June 1879; principal naval A.D.C. to the Queen 8 Feb. 1873; C.B. 3 April 1846, K.C.B. 9 Nov. 1860, G.C.B. 28 March 1865; grand cross of legion of honour 1861. d. Carriden house, Bowness, Linlithgowshire 9 June 1881, portrait by Sydney Hodges in painted hall at Greenwich. D. C. Boulger’s History of China, vol. iii, passim (1884).

HOPE, James. b. 28 May 1803; writer to the signet 1828; deputy keeper of the signet 1828 to death. d. Avenel, Edinburgh 14 Feb. 1882. Law Times, lxxii, 305 (1882).

HOPE, Sir James Archibald (son of lieut.-col. Erskine Hope). b. 1785; ensign 26 foot 12 Jany. 1800, captain 1805–14; captain 3 foot guards 25 July 1814, major 10 Jany. 1837 to 1 Nov. 1839, when placed on h.p.; M.G. on the staff in Lower Canada 1841–7; colonel 9 foot 18 Feb. 1848 to death; general 12 June 1859; K.C.B. 2 Jany. 1815, G.C.B. 28 June 1861. d. Balgowan house, Cheltenham 30 Dec. 1871.

HOPE, Sir John, 11 Baronet. b. Pinkie house, Midlothian 13 April 1781; succeeded 26 June 1801; M.P. for Midlothian 1845 to death. d. 104 Gloucester terrace, Hyde park, London 5 June 1853. bur. Inveresk churchyard 11 June.

HOPE, John (eld. son of Charles Hope of Granton 1763–1851). b. Edinburgh 26 May 1794; admitted advocate 23 Nov. 1816; solicitor general for Scotland Nov. 1822 to 1830; dean of faculty of advocates 17 Dec. 1830 to 1841; lord justice clerk 1841 to death; P.C. 17 April 1844; author of A letter to Francis Jeffery, Esq., editor of the Edinburgh Review, By an Anti-Reformist 1811 and two other letters. d. 20 Moray place, Edinburgh 15 June 1858, bur. at Ormiston near Tranent; portraits in national gallery of Scotland, in the Parliament house and in Scottish national portrait gallery. Crombie’s Modern Athenians (1882) 73–4, portrait.

HOPE, Sackett. Entered navy 2 Nov. 1814; present at bombardment of St. Jean d’Acre 1840; captain 4 Nov. 1840; V.A. on half pay 2 April 1866; granted pension for wounds 7 Nov. 1843. d. 9 Widcomb crescent, Bath 25 May 1868.

HOPE, William Williams (youngest child of John Williams Hope of Amsterdam, banker 1757–1813). b. 1802; reassumed name of Williams before that of Hope by r.l. 14 July 1826; purchased Rushton hall near Kettering for £140,000 in 1828, sold it for £165,000 Sep. 1854; sheriff of Northamptonshire 1832; lived latterly in Paris, built a large house at 131 Rue St. Dominique, Faubourg St. Germain, played a prominent part in Parisian society, noted for his eccentricity and his collection of diamonds; found dead in his bed at 131 Rue St. Dominique, Paris 21 Jany. 1855. Gronow’s Last Recollections (1866) 129–33; Boase’s Collect. Cornub. (1890) 1262–4.

HOPE-JOHNSTONE, John James (1 son of Sir William Hope-Johnstone, G.C.B. 1766–1831). b. 29 Nov. 1796; M.P. for co. Dumfries 1830–47, and 1857–65; keeper of Lockmaben; claimed dormant earldom of Annandale. d. Raehills, Dumfriesshire 11 July 1876.

HOPE-SCOTT, James Robert (3 son of general the hon. Sir Alexander Hope, G.C.B. 1769–1837). b. Great Marlow, Bucks. 15 July 1812; ed. at Eton 1825–28 and at Ch. Ch. Ox., B.A. 1832, B.C.L. 1838, D.C.L. 1842; fellow of Merton 13 April 1833; commenced a friendship with W. E. Gladstone 1837 and corresponded with him on “The State in its relation with the Church” 1838; barrister I.T. 26 Jany. 1838, reader 1862; a promoter of Glenalmond college, Perthshire 1841; chancellor of diocese of Salisbury 1840 to 10 Feb. 1845; Q.C. April 1849; paid fees of £20,000 by London and north western railway for 25 bills 1860; received into R.C. church at Farm st. London 6 April 1851; lived at Abbotsford 1853 to death; assumed additional name of Scott 1853; spent winters of 1863–70 at the Villa Madonna Hyères which he bought 1859; visited by Queen Victoria at Abbotsford 22 Aug. 1867; built church of Our Lady and St. Andrew at Galashiels at cost of £10,000, opened 2 Feb. 1858; purchased estate of Lochshiel for £24,000, 1855; author of The bishopric of the United Church of England and Ireland at Jerusalem 1841, 2 ed. 1842. d. 7 Hyde park place, London 29 April 1873. bur. in the vaults of St. Margaret’s convent, Bruntsfield, Edin. 7 May. Memoirs of J. R. Hope-Scott, By Robert Ornsby 2 vols. 1884.

HOPETOUN, John Alexander Hope, 6 Earl of (only son of 5 earl of Hopetoun 1803–43). b. Edinburgh 22 March 1831; ed. at Harrow; cornet and sub-lieut. 1 life guards 1851–2; succeeded 8 April 1843; lord lieut. of Linlithgowshire 30 Sep. 1863 to death. d. Florence 1 April 1873. Baily’s Mag. xvi, 159–61 (1869), portrait.

HOPKINS, Sir Francis, 2 Baronet (only son of Sir F. J. Hopkins, M.P.) b. Athboy, co. Meath 28 May 1813; succeeded 19 Sep. 1814; ed. at Eton, matric. from Ch. Ch. Ox. 27 June 1830; knight of the Burning Tower at the Eglinton tournament 28–30 Aug. 1839; sheriff of Westmeath 1855. d. Madeira 11 May 1860. J. H. Nixon’s Eglinton tournament p. 6 and plate xiv (1843).

HOPKINS, Rev. Gerard Manley (1 son of Manley Hopkins of Stratford, Essex). b. Essex 1845; ed. at Ball. coll. Ox., exhibitioner 1863–8, B.A. 1868; fellow of royal univ. of Ireland 1885 (which was created by letters patent 22 April 1880), professor of classical literature there 1885 to death; member of Society of Jesus about 1868. d. of typhoid fever at University college, Stephen’s Green, Dublin 8 June 1889. bur. Glasnevin cemet. 11 June. Freeman’s Journal 10 June 1889 p. 5.

HOPKINS, John Baker. b. London 10 April 1830; began his career as a journalist 1858; editor of Atlas paper; joint editor with Henry Hotze of The Index, English organ of Confederate States, No. i. 1 May 1862, at the end of the war the paper ceased; London correspondent to Paris Correspondence Havas 1864–8; on Standard paper Sep. 1865 to 1868; on Law Journal 1867; contributed to Morning Post and Vanity Fair under pseudonym of Esse quam videri; chief leader writer on London Figaro, July 1870; author of The Yogi’s daughter, a tragedy 1854; Elviré, a reminiscence of Paris 1855; Not at all nervous, a farce 1860; Making the worst of it, a novel 2 vols. 1874; Jack Oakum, a play 1877; The true history of Nihilism, a novel 1880. d. 14 Russell road, Holloway 20 Dec. 1888. Cartoon portraits (1873) 140–43, portrait.

HOPKINS, Right Rev. John Henry. b. Dublin 30 Jany. 1792; emigrated to U.S. of A. 1801, an iron manufacturer in Pennsylvania 1810–17 when he failed; admitted to Pittsburgh bar 1817, practised to 1823; R. of Trinity ch. Pittsburgh 1824–31; assistant minister Trinity ch. Boston 1831; professor of divinity in theol. seminary of Massachusetts 1831; first bishop of Vermont 31 Oct. 1832; R. of St. Paul’s, Burlington 1832–56; seventh presiding bishop of ch. in U.S. 1865, attended Lambeth conference 1867; D.C.L. Ox. 3 Dec. 1867; author of Christianity vindicated 1833; Essay on Gothic architecture 1836; Twelve canzonets, words and music 1839; The history of the confessional 1850, and 30 other books. d. Rock Point, Vermont 9 Jany. 1868. A sketch book of American episcopate. By K. G. Batterson (1878) 104–106; Appleton’s American Biog. iii, 254–6 (1887).

HOPKINS, John Larkin. b. Westminster 25 Nov. 1819; chorister boy in the abbey; organist of Rochester cathedral 1841–56; Mus. Bac. Cam. 1842, Mus. Doc. 1857; organist of Trin. coll. Cam. 1856 to death; composed Five glees and a madrigal 1842, and Cathedral Services in C flat and E flat 1857; author of A new vocal tutor 1855. d. Ventnor, Isle of Wight 25 April 1873.

HOPKINS, Sir John Paul (eld. son of Capt. John Hopkins, killed on board the “Bellerophon” in the battle of the Nile). Ensign 43 foot 1804; served in the Peninsula and in campaign of 1815; major 98 foot 25 June 1829, retired 18 Oct. 1831; K.H. 1836; governor of military knights of Windsor 1865 to death; knighted at Windsor castle 11 Dec. 1867. d. Windsor 9 March 1875.

HOPKINS, William (only son of William Hopkins of Kingston, Derbyshire, farmer). b. Kingston 2 Feb. 1793; farmed, without success near Bury St. Edmunds; entered at Peterhouse, Cam. 1822, 7 wrangler 1827, B.A. 1827, M.A. 1830; a private tutor at Cam. from 1827 and known as the senior wrangler maker; esquire bedel of Univ. of Cam. 1827 to death; F.G.S. 18—, Wollaston medallist 1850, president 1851–3; pres. of British Assoc. at Hull 1853; F.R.S. 1 June 1837; author of Elements of trigonometry 1833; An abstract of a memoir on physical geology 1836. d. Parker’s Piece, Cambridge 13 Oct. 1866, portrait in hall of Peterhouse. Quarterly Journal of Geol. Soc. xxiii, pp. xxix-xxxii (1867); I.L.N. xxiii, 225 (1853), portrait.

HOPKINS, Rev. William Bonner. Ed. at Gonville and Caius coll. Cam., second wrangler, second Smith’s prizeman and B.A. 1844, M.A. 1847, B.D. 1854; fellow and tutor of St. Cath. hall 1848–54; V. of St. Peter, Wisbech 1854–66; V. of Littleport near Ely 1866 to death; hon. canon of Ely 1865 to death, rural dean 1868; Dean Stanley said he was “the incarnation of sound common sense”; author of Apostolic missions. Five sermons preached before the university 1853; The words spoken by Christ upon the Cross. Seven sermons 1866; The position and duty of non-abstainers 1874, 2 ed. 1875. d. Littleport vicarage 24 March 1890.

HOPKINSON, Sir Charles (son of B. Hopkinson of Highbury park, Middlesex). b. Grantham 1784; ed. at Woolwich; lieut. R.A. 1799; served in Mahratta war 1803; commanded the artillery against the Poligars and at Hyderabad; lieut.-col. 1824; commanded Madras artillery; served in war in Ava 1825; retired through deafness 1829; C.B. 1826; knighted by Wm. iv. at St. James’s palace 26 April 1837; author of Hints to cadets and others proceeding to India 1850. d. 2a King st. St. James’s sq. London 17 Dec. 1864.

HOPKINSON, William (son of Rev. Samuel Edmund Hopkinson, R. of Morton-cum-Haconby). b. 1784; coroner for the Soke of Peterborough; solicitor at Bourn and Stamford; purchased Little Gidding manor, Hunts. 700 acres 1853 and restored the church to the Caroline style in which it had been left by Nicholas Ferrar in 1637. d. Stamford 1 Sep. 1865. Rivington’s Ecclesiastical Year-book (1866) 334.

HOPLEY, Edward William John. b. 1816; painter of domestic subjects and portraits; exhibited 15 pictures at R.A., 26 at B.I. and 7 at Suffolk st. 1844–69; his picture, The birth of a pyramid, shown 1859; invented a trigonometrical system of facial measurement for the use of artists. d. 14 South Bank, Regent’s Park, London 30 April 1869.

HOPPER, Ven. Augustus Macdonald (son of Walter Carles Hopper of Walworth, co. Durham). b. 11 Aug. 1816; ed. at Shrewsbury and Trin. coll. Cam., B.A. 1839, M.A. 1842, fellow of St. John’s 1841–5; R. of Starston, Norfolk 1845 to death; hon. canon of Norwich 1854–72; archdeacon of Norwich 1868 to death; author of Two Charges 1869 and 1870. d. Starston rectory 7 Jany. 1878.

HOPPER, Clarence (son of Thomas Hopper of Reading, surgeon d. 1856). b. Granthan, Wilts 17 May 1817; ed. at Reading gram. sch.; palæographer of British Archæol. Assoc. 1862; an expert in deciphering ancient writings; employed in Record office; edited London Chronicle of Hen. VII. and Hen. VIII. 1859, and Sir F. Drake’s service against the Spaniards 1863, in vols. 4 and 5 of Camden Miscellany; author of A descriptive account of churchwardens’ presentments Stratford-on-Avon 1867; A catalogue of books illustrative of Shakespeare 1868. d. Brighton 10 June 1868. Journal of B.A. Assoc. xxv, 316 (1869).

HOPPER, Thomas (son of Mr. Hopper of Rochester, surveyor). b. Rochester 6 July 1776; architect and surveyor 40 Connaught ter. London; made alterations at Carlton House, London 1807; surveyor of Essex 40 years; built Arthur’s club, St. James’s st., Atlas fire office, Cheapside and St. Mary’s hospital, Paddington 1843; competed for erection of General Post Office 1820, for rebuilding of Royal Exchange 1839, and for Houses of parliament 1840; published A letter to viscount Duncannon on competitors for building houses of parliament 1837; Designs for the houses of parliament 1842. d. 1 Bayswater Hill, London 11 Aug. 1856.

HOPPUS, Rev. John (only son of Rev. John Hoppus, independent minister, Yardley, Hastings). b. London 1789; ed. at Rotherham and Univs. of Edin. and Glasgow, M.A. Glasgow 1823, LLD. 1839; minister of independent chapel, Carter lane, London 1823–5; professor of the philosophy of mind and logic in London Univ. 1829–66; F.R.S. 20 May 1841; author of An account of Lord Bacon’s Novum Organum Scientiarum 1827; Sketches on the Continent in 1835 2 vols. 1836; The crisis of popular education 1847 and 12 other books. d. 26 Camden st. Camden town, London 29 Jany. 1875. Congregational Year-book (1876) 341–3.

HORAN, Edward John. b. Quebec, Canada 1817; ed. in the Seminary of Quebec, priest 1842, a director of the Seminary; principal of the normal sch. Quebec; bishop of Kingston 1858, resigned; assistant of the pontifical throne; present at Vatican council 1870. d. Canada 16 Feb. 1875. Appleton’s American Biog. iii, 262 (1887).

HORAN, Mary Austin. b. Ireland 1820; entered the Convent of Mercy, Dublin; assisted in founding the Institution of Mercy, New York 1846; first mistress of novices in St. Catherine’s convent, New York and trainer of the early members; built St. Joseph’s Industrial institute for children. d. New York city 14 June 1874. Appleton’s American Biog. iii, 262 (1887).

HORDERN, Rev. Joseph (son of Rev. Joseph Hordern of Prestwich, Lancs.) b. 1794; ed. at Brasenose coll. Ox., B.A. 1816, M.A. 1820; V. of Rostherne, Cheshire 1821–54; R. of Burton Agnes with Harpham, Yorks. 1854 to death; author of Plain directions for reading to the sick 1826, 4 ed. 1830; Sermons 1830; The armour of light, sermons 1851. d. Knutsford, Cheshire 12 Aug. 1876. F. Ross’ Celebrities of the Wolds (1878) 76.

HORMAN, George Helier (son of Philip Horman of St. Saviour’s, Jersey). b. 1817; practised as a solicitor in Jersey, one of the six advocates of the royal court there 1848; Her Majesty’s advocate general for Jersey 23 July 1866 to death; chairman of the Channel islands bank 1858–74. d. The Terrace, St. Heliers, Jersey 29 May 1879.

HORN, Henry (son of Frederick Jacob Horn of Mansfield, Nottinghamshire). b. 23 Sep. 1806; ed. at M.T. school and St. John’s coll. Ox., B.A. 1829, M.A. 1832; fellow of Magdalen coll. 1831–4; barrister M.T. 11 Jany. 1833; recorder of Hereford 1847 to death; edited Woodfall’s Practical treatise on law of landlord and tenant, 7 ed. 1856; with E. T. Hurlstone published Reports in court of exchequer upon writs of error to exchequer chamber 2 vols. 1840; while attending the corpse of his father in law J. S. Gowland shot himself in the head at Cagebrook near Hereford 29 Nov. 1857. Hereford Journal 2 Dec. 1857 p. 5.