Hopkins Fox B.D. (abt. 1736 - 1793)

Born about 1736 in Kent, England

Ancestors

Husband of Elizabeth (Hinde) Fox — married 27 Jan 1766 in Saint Mary The Great,Cambridge

Descendants

Died 3 Jan 1793 at about age 57 in Lynsted, Kent, England

Problems/Questions Profile managers: Ruth Boydell [send private message] and James Dill [send private message]

Biography

Birth

Birth:

Date: about 1736 (died age 57)

Place: Kent

Event

Date: 27 JAN 1766

Place: Saint Mary The Great,Cambridge,England

Burial

Burial:

Place: St. Peter And St Paul,Lynsted,Kent,England

Went to Trinity College at age of 17, gained a doctorate. Rector of Ruckinge. Vicar of Lynsted, Kent.

D.O.M. Lynsted Church http://www.lynsted-society.co.uk/html/memorials_and_tablets.html Here lyeth the Remains of The Revd. HOPKINS FOX B.D. Rector of RUCKINGE in this County, and Vicar of this Parish. He departed this life on the 3rd Jan, 1793 In the 57 Year of his Age. Here also lyeth the Remains of ELIZABETH FOX, the Wife of the said HOPKINS FOX, and Daughter of WILLIAM HINDE of B...sou? in the County of York Esq., she died the 7th of July 1771, Aged 37. Also the Remains of ELIZ. MARY FOX the infant Daur. of the said HOPKINS FOX and ELIZ. FOX who died on the 19th Sept 1768. Also the Remains of the Rev. JOHN HINDE A.M. of St. John College (?) Cambridge. and Bro. of the said ELIZ FOX. he died on the 17th June 1781 Aged 41 Underneath the Gallery in this Church lyes the Remains of HOPKINS FOX. an Infant, the son of JOHN HOPKINS FOX Eldest son of the said Revd. H. FOX he died on the 21st Novr. 1789 Requieseant in Peace Amen SACRED to the Memory of FRANCES FOX Posthumous Daughter of the late Revd. HOPKINS FOX and MARY his Wife who Died August 25th 1796, Aged 3 Years and 5 Days

Death Notice of his grand daughter, Priscilla Fox: On the 21st December last, at her residence, Highgate, England, of congestion of the lungs, Priscilla Anna Maria, youngest daughter of the late William Hind Fox, Esq., Staff Physician to H.M. Forces, British North America, and grand-daughter of the late Rev. Hopkins Fox, Dean of Canterbury, Kent, youngest and only surviving sister of Mrs. Robert Jones, Macquarie Street, Sydney. [Sydney Morning Herald Saturday 30 April 1864]^[1]

Sources

[1] Tablet on the North wall of the chancel of Lynsted Church in memory of Hopkins and his family (from the Lynsted Society website):

Footnotes

1. ↑ Entered by Kirsty Ward.

Acknowledgments

Thanks to Kirsty Ward for starting this profile. Click the Changes tab for the details of contributions by Kirsty and others.