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Robert Eli Hooppell|1833|1895| Robert ELI Hooppell (born 1833 died 1895), antiquary, born in the parish of St. Mary, Rotherhithe, Surrey, on 30 January 1833, was the son of John Eli and Mary Ann Hooppell. He was educated at Queen Elizabeth's free grammar school, St. Olave's, Southwark, and was admitted sizar at St. John's College, Cambridge, on 30 June 1851. He was also a scholar of the college. In 1855 he graduated with a B.A., being fortieth wrangler in the mathematical tripos, and in 1856 he obtained a first-class in moral science. He gained an MA in 1858, LL.D. in 1865, and was admitted ad eundem at Durham. From 1855 to 1861 Hooppell was second and mathematical master at Beaurnaris grammar school. He was ordained deacon in 1857, and priest in 1859, and from 1859 to 1861 he served as English chaplain at Menai Bridge. On the foundation at South Shields in 1861 of Dr. Winterbottom's nautical college he was appointed the first head master, and he remained in that position until 1875, when he was instituted to the rectory of Byers Green, County Durham. For the last year or two of his life he was in delicate health, and wintered at Bournemouth. He died at the Burlington, Oxford Road, in that town on 23 August 1895, and was buried in Bournemouth cemetery. He married at Broxbourne, Hertfordshire, on 20 June 1855, Margaret, daughter of Samuel and Elizabeth Hooppell of Fishleigh, Devonshire; she survived him with two sons and one daughter. Hooppell served on the committee which superintended the excavation of the Roman camp at South Shields. His paper on the discoveries there (Natural History Transactions of Northumberland, vii. 126-42) was the prelude to a lecture, published in 1879, on ' Vinovium, the buried Roman City at Binchester', between Bishop Auckland and Byers Green, and in 1891 'Vinovia, a buried Roman City', with thirty-eight illustrations. The substance of this treatise appeared in the journal of the British Archaeolgical Association, and he contributed to the same journal for 1895 a paper on 'Roman Manchester and the Roads to and from it'. From 1877 he read papers on the names of Roman stations before the Newcastle Society of Antiquaries, and he contributed to the 'Archaeolgia Æliana' and the 'Illustrated Archaeolgist'. His address, as president of the Tyneside Naturalists' Field Club, is in the 'Natural History Transactions of Northumberland', vii. 187-206, and after his death there was published in 1898 a volume entitled 'Rambles of an Antiquary', being a series of papers sent by him to the 'Newcastle Courant' in 1880 and 1881, chiefly on the antiquities of Northumberland and Durham.

Hooppell also published, in addition to several single sermons, 'Reason and Religion, or the leading Doctrines of Christianity', 1867; 2nd ed. 1895; and 'Materialism, has it any real Foundation in Science?' 2nd ed. 1874.

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