Richard Hopkins (died 1799)

Richard Hopkins (1728?–1799), of Oving, Buckinghamshire, was an English politician.

He was the eldest son of Edward Hopkins of Coventry, whom he succeeded in 1736, and was educated at Lincoln's Inn (1739) and Queens' College, Cambridge (1746).

He was a Member of Parliament (MP) for Dartmouth on 7 February 1766 – 1780 and 1784–1790; for Thetford in 1780–1784; for Queenborough in 1790–1796; and for Harwich in 1796 – 19 March 1799.^[1]

He was a Clerk of the Green Cloth (1767–1777), a Lord of the Admiralty (1782–1783 and 1784–1791) and a Lord of the Treasury (1791–1797).

He died unmarried on 18 March 1799 and was buried in the Parish Church of St. Michael, Coventry, as were his parents and paternal grandparents. The church contained plaques commemorating these family members, and flat stones marked their burial places.^[2] As Coventry Cathedral, the church was destroyed during World War II.

References

^ "HOPKINS, Richard (?1728-99), of Oving, Bucks. | History of Parliament Online".
^ John Astley (1885), The Monumental Inscriptions in the Parish Church of S. Michael, Coventry, together with drawings of all the arms found therein, pp. 18–19, Wikidata Q98360469

Parliament of Great Britain
Preceded by John Jeffreys Hon. Richard Howe	Member of Parliament for Dartmouth 1766–1780 With: Hon. Richard Howe	Succeeded by Hon. Richard Howe Arthur Holdsworth
Preceded by Hon. Charles FitzRoy Charles FitzRoy-Scudamore	Member of Parliament for Thetford 1780–1784 With: Charles FitzRoy-Scudamore to 1782 Earl of Euston 1782–84	Succeeded by George Jennings Sir Charles Kent, Bt
Preceded by George Bowyer John Clater Aldridge	Member of Parliament for Queenborough 1784–1796 With: Gibbs Crawfurd 1790–93 Augustus Rogers 1793–94 John Sargent	Succeeded by John Sargent Evan Nepean
Preceded by Thomas Orde John Robinson	Member of Parliament for Harwich 1796–1799 With: John Robinson	Succeeded by Henry Dillon-Lee John Robinson

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[1] "HOPKINS, Richard (?1728-99), of Oving, Bucks. | History of Parliament Online".

[2] John Astley (1885), The Monumental Inscriptions in the Parish Church of S. Michael, Coventry, together with drawings of all the arms found therein, pp. 18–19, Wikidata Q98360469

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