Ralph Hopton KB (1596 - 1652)

Born Mar 1596 in Witham, Somerset, England

Ancestors

Husband of Elizabeth (Capell) Hopton — married 18 Mar 1622 in Little Hadham, Hertfordshire, England

Died 28 Sep 1652 at age 56 in Bruges, Belgium

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Sir Ralph Hopton was a member of the aristocracy in British Isles.

Biography

Ralph Hopton was the son of Robert Hopton of Witham Somerset and his wife, Jane Kemeys. ^[1]

He was the nephew and sole heir of his Uncle Sir Thomas Hopton.^[2]

Sources

1. ↑ Banks, Esq. T. C. The Dormant and Extinct Baronage of England. Vol III. London. T. Bensley:1809.Pages 376-377. https://books.google.com/books?id=LIjjXNazOjoC&pg=PA377&lpg#v=onepage&q&f=false
2. ↑ Thrush, Andrew and John P. Ferris, 2010, Thomas (1584/5-1638) of Westminster The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1604-1629:2010 Available from Cambridge University Press http://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1604-1629/member/hopton-thomas-15845-1638

• Marriage record Little Hadham, Hertfordshire (18 March 1623 Ralph Hopton married Elizabeth Lewen)

• wikipedia:Ralph Hopton, 1st Baron Hopton

• Ronald Hutton, ‘Hopton, Ralph, Baron Hopton (bap. 1596, d. 1652)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004; online edn, Jan 2008 accessed 30 July 2017. This is a subscription site but access is free to readers of British libraries whose library subscribes.

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