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John Henry Hopkinson (died 22 October 1957) was Archdeacon of Westmorland from 1931 until 1944.
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 married Evelyn Mary Fountaine, the daughter of a Lincolnshire vicar. Their four sons included the journalist and Orwell biographer Sir Henry Thomas Hopkinson CBE and Brigadier Paul Hopkinson (1906-1991) who was the commanding officer of the 152nd (Indian) Parachute Battalion at the Battle of Shangshak.
He died on 22 October 1957.
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. 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.