Owen Hopton
Sir Owen Hopton (c. 1519 – 1595) was an English administrator and politician.
Cockfield Hall, Suffolk - seat of the Hopton family
He was born the son of Sir Arthur Hopton of Cockfield Hall, Yoxford and knighted in 1561.
He was the Lieutenant of the Tower of London from 1570 to 1590. He was therefore in charge of the most significant prisoners of the age, supervised all torture and controlled the armoury.[1]
He was Member of Parliament, for Suffolk (1559 and 1571), for Middlesex (1572 and 1584) [1] and for Arundel (1589). He was appointed Sheriff of Norfolk and Suffolk for 1564.[2]
Family
Sir Owen Hopton married Anne Echyngham, the elder daughter and coheiress of Sir Edward Echyngham and Ann Everard. Sources indicate that they had the following children:[3][4]
- Arthur Hopton of Blythburgh, father to Sir Arthur Hopton, ambassador to Spain.[5][6][7]
- William Hopton, Esquire.[8]
- (George Hopton, Ralph Hopton[9])
- Anne Hopton, married (1) Henry Wentworth, 3rd Baron Wentworth (1558-1593), and (2) (Sir) William Pope, Earl of Downe, of Wroxton Abbey, Oxfordshire (died 1631).[10]
- Mary Hopton, married William Brydges, 4th Baron Chandos.[11][12]
- Cecilie Hopton, married ------ Marshall.[13][14]
References
- Craig, John. "Hopton, Owen". Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/47136. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
- J.E.M., 'Hopton, Owen (c.1519-95), of Yoxford and Blythburgh, Suff. and of London', in P.W. Hasler (ed.), The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1558-1603 (from Boydell and Brewer 1981), History of Parliament Online.
- (Monumental Inscription to Anne Hopton at Wroxton), in X.Y.Z. (Pseud.), 'Topographical description of Wroxton in Oxfordshire', Gentleman's Magazine Vol. 67 Pt. 1 (1797), pp. 106-10, at p. 107 (Google).
- 'Visitation of 1561: Hopton of Westwood', in W. Metcalfe (ed.), The Visitations of Suffolk made by Hervey, Clarenceux, 1561, Cooke, Clarenceux, 1577, and Raven, Richmond Herald, 1612 (Exeter 1882), pp. 43-44 (Internet Archive).
- 'Visitation of 1561'.
- Monumental Inscription to Anne Hopton at Wroxton.
- G.M.C., 'Hopton, Arthur (d.1607), of Blythburgh, Suff. and Witham Friary, Som.', in P.W. Hasler (ed.), The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1558-1603 (from Boydell and Brewer 1981), History of Parliament Online.
- Monumental Inscription to Anne Hopton at Wroxton.
- 'Visitation of 1561'.
- Monumental Inscription to Anne Hopton at Wroxton, and monument to Sir William and Anne Pope at same place.
- Monumental Inscription to Anne Hopton at Wroxton.
- 'Visitation of 1561'.
- Monumental Inscription to Anne Hopton at Wroxton.
- 'Visitation of 1561'.
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