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 is in the British Museum, Harl. 4630. Another, much enlarged and corrected by Thomas Wilson, F.S.A., is in the Leeds Library.

 HOPKINSON, WILLIAM (fl. 1583), divine, graduated B.A. in 1567 from St. John's College, Cambridge, and was a minister in Lincolnshire, perhaps at Kirton in Lindsey in that county. He wrote: 1. ‘An Evident Display of Popish Practices, or patched Pelagianism, wherein is mightily cleared the Sovereign Truth of God's eternal Predestination, the stayed groundwork of our assured Safety,’ London, 1578, 4to; a translation from Beza's vindication of Calvin's predestination, dedicated to Aylmer, bishop of London. 2. ‘A Preparation into the Waie of Life, with a Direction into the right use of the Lordes Supper,’ London, 1583, 12mo; a catechism, dedicated to Sir Henry Sidney. 3. ‘Animadversions on some places of Tremelius's version of the Bible,’ Brit. Mus. Royal MS. 17 A. 42.

 HOPKIRK, THOMAS (1790?–1851?), botanist, born at Dalbeath, near Glasgow, about 1790, was elected fellow of the Linnean Society in November 1812, and in the next year published ‘Flora Glottiana, being a Catalogue of the Indigenous Plants on the Banks of the Clyde,’ Glasgow, 8vo. Four years later, in 1817, he produced, also at Glasgow, his principal work, ‘Flora Anomoia; a General View of the Anomalies in the Vegetable Kingdom,’ with a frontispiece designed by himself. It is usually misquoted as ‘Flora Anomala.’ His name last appeared in the annual lists of the Linnean Society in 1851. The genus Hopkirkia of Sprengel is merged in Salmea, and the homonymous genus established by De Candolle has also disappeared. It is identical with Schkuhria.

 HOPLEY, EDWARD WILLIAM JOHN (1816–1869), painter, born in 1816, resided for the early part of his life at Lewes in Sussex. He was originally destined for the medical profession, but soon turned to art, settled in London, and after some years succeeded in gaining popularity as a painter of domestic subjects, and also of portraits. In 1845 he exhibited at the British Institution a picture entitled ‘Love not,’ and in 1854 and 1855 two pictures illustrating the ‘Vicissitudes of Science,’ viz. ‘Sir Isaac Newton explaining to Lord Treasurer Halifax his Theory of Colour’ and ‘Michael Angelo in the Gardens of the Medici.’ In 1859 he exhibited a picture entitled ‘The Birth of a Pyramid,’ the result of considerable archæological research and industry, which attracted attention. He exhibited first at the Royal Academy in 1851, when he sent ‘Psyche.’ His last work was a portrait of Professor Owen, F.R.S., exhibited at the British Institution in 1869. Hopley resided latterly at 14 South Bank, Regent's Park, where he died 30 April 1869, in his fifty-third year. He invented a trigonometrical system of facial measurement for the use of artists.

 HOPPER, HUMPHREY (fl. 1799–1834), sculptor, studied in the Royal Academy, and gained the gold medal there in 1803 for an original group of ‘The Death of Meleager.’ He had previously, in 1799 and in the two following years, exhibited some ornamental pieces of sculpture at that exhibition. In 1807 he was a competitor for the Pitt and Nelson memorials in the Guildhall. He executed some classical figures, but latterly devoted himself principally to memorial busts and monuments. An example of the latter is the public monument to Major-general Hay in St. Paul's Cathedral. Hopper exhibited for the last time in 1834.

 HOPPER, THOMAS (1776–1856), architect and surveyor, born 6 July 1776 at Rochester, was the son of a surveyor in that town, and educated in his father's office. He acquired considerable artistic knowledge by his own efforts. He was employed by Mr. Walsh Porter to make some alterations in Craven Cottage, Fulham. These attracted the notice of the Prince Regent, who commissioned him to make alterations at Carlton House, including the building of the Gothic conservatory. Hopper, as ‘Thomas Hopper, junior,’ exhibited designs for this at the Royal Academy in 1807. This patronage soon brought Hopper many commissions from the nobility and gentry. Among the mansions