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can Plulosophical society, in 1893 : of the Victoria Philosophical Institute, Lomlon, and of otlicr learned societies. He married, in 1850, 3Iary Deming Perkins, of Litchfield, Conn., and of their sons : Benjamin was a tutor in Yale, 1875 ; and James Mason, Jr., a graduate of Christ Church college, Oxford, England, 1880, married a daugh- ter of Donald G. Mitchell, in 1895, and died, Jan. 23, 1897. He received the degree of M.A. from Yale in 186'2, and that of D.D. from Knox college in 1870. He is the author of : Notes of a Theo- logical Student (1854) ; Okl England: Its Scen- ery, Art and People (1867) ; Office and Work of the Christian Ministry (1869) ; Life of Rear- Ad- miral Andrew Hull Foote (1874) ; Memoir of Henry Armift Broicn (1880); Homiletics (1881) ; Pastoral Theology (1884) : Sermons on Faith, Hope and Love (1891) ; Horce Homileticai (1891) ; The Early Renaissance, and other Essays on Art Subjects (1895) ; Greek Art on Greek Soil (1897); Great Epochs in Art History (1902) ; and numer- ous published sermons, essays on art and theology, and various contributions to periodicals.

HOPPIN, Thomas Frederick, artist, was born in Providence, R. I.. Aug. 15, 1816 ; son of Thomas Coles and Harriet Dunn (Jones) Hoppin, and grandson of Col. Benjamin and Anne (Rawson) Hoppin. He studied art in Philadelphia and in Paris under Delaroche. He returned to the United States in 1837 and opened a studio in New York city. He designed the four evangelists composing the great chancel window of Trinity church. He was also a sculptor, and his colossal figure of a dog is claimed to be the first piece of sculpture cast in bronze in the United States. He also produced statues and groups in plaster, etched on copper and drew and engraved on wood. His subjects generally are illustrative of American life and history.

HOPPIN, William Jones, art critic, was born in Providence, R.I., Ai)ril 21, 1813 ; son of Thomas Coles and Harriet Dunn (Jones) Hoppin, and grandson of Col. Benjamin and Ann (Rawson) Hoppin. He was a student at Yale, and was graduated at Middlebury in 1832, and at Harvard, LL.B., in 1835. He was art critic for various American and European periodicals, and edited the Bulletin, the organ of the American Art union. In his capacity as art editor he made yearly pilgrimages to the art centres of both continents. He was president of the Union club and was one of the founders of the Century association in New York city in 1846. He was secretary of legation at London by appointment of President Grant, serving 1876-86, and acting as charge d'affaires in 1879, from the time of the resignation of U.S. Minister Welch in 1879 to the appointment of James Russell Lowell in 1880. He died in Providence, R.I., Sept. 3, 1895.

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HOPPIN, William Warner, governor of Rhode Ishind. was born in Providence, R.I., Sept. 1, 1807; son of Benjamin and Estiier Phillips (Warner) Hoppin, and grandson of Col. Ben- jamin and Anne (Rawson) Hoppin. He was graduated at Yale, A.B., 1828; LL.B., 1830. He practised law in Providence ; was a member of the city council, 1838-42; member of the board of aldermen, 1847-52 ; state senator, 1853, and governor of the state, 1854-57. He was a Wliig candi- date for U.S. sena- tor in 1858, and on the dissolution of that party joined the Re- publican party. He

was a delegate to the peace conference at Waslnngton, Feb. 4-27, 1861 ; a state senator in 1866 ; registrar in bankruptcy, 1867-72 ; and a representative in the state legislature, 1875. He was a member of the Society of tlie Cincinnati, Rhode Island branch, and a delegate to the Whig national convention of 1844 and to the Republi- can national conventions of 1856 and 1868. He was married, June 26, 1832, to Frances A. F., daughter of Titus Street, of New Haven, and the sister of Augustus Russell Street, (q.v) the bene- factor of Yale college. Their sons were Freder- ick Street and William Warner, Jr. Governor Hoppin died in Providmce. R.I., April 19, 1890.

HOPSON, George Bailey, educator, was born at Naugatuck, Conn., Jan. 18, 1838; son of the Rev. Oliver and Caroline (AUis) Hopson ; grand- son of John C. Hopson, and a descendant of Ser- geant John Hopson, of London, England, who settled in Guilford, Conn., about 1635 ; of the Rev. Dr. Richard Mansfield, rector of St. James church, Derby, Conn., for seventy-two years ; and of William Leete, colonial governor of Connecti- cut. He was graduated from Trinity college in 1857, and from the General Theological seminary in 1863 ; was ordained deacon in the Protestant Episcopal chux'ch in 1863, and priest by the Rt. Rev. Horatio Potter, bisliop of New York, in 1864. He was ai)pointed professor of the Latin language and literature at St. Stephen's college,. Annandale.N.Y.. in 1863, and w;is acting warden from August, 1898, to September. 1899. He was elected a member of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, and received the degrees of A.M. in 1874 and D.D. in 1886 from St. Stei)hen's college. He published numerous pamphlets and sermons.