Ezekiel Hopkins (died 1690) was an Anglican divine in the Church of Ireland, who was Bishop of Derry from 1681 to 1690.
Life
He was born in Devon, and was educated at Merchant Taylors' School and Magdalen College, Oxford, where he was a chorister from 1648 to 1653, and graduated B.A. in 1655 and M.A. in 1656. After 1660 he was assistant to William Spurstow in Hackney, but he conformed after the Act of Uniformity 1662, becoming a lecturer in London. In 1666, he became minister of St Mary Arches, Exeter.
Lord Robartes appointed Hopkins his chaplain on becoming Lord Lieutenant of Ireland in 1669. In 1670 he became Dean of Raphoe and the following year Bishop of Raphoe. His translation to Derry was in 1681. In 1689 he returned to England, becoming preacher at St Mary Aldermanbury, and dying on 19 June 1690.
Works
His written legacy includes his Expositions of the Ten Commandments, which remains in print in the modern era.
Family
Hopkins married, first, a niece of Sir Robert Viner, sometime lord mayor of London, to whom he dedicated his Vanity of the World, and by her he had two sons, Charles (1664–1700), poet and dramatist, and John (born 1675), the author of Amasia; secondly, in 1685 at Totteridge, the Lady Araminta Robartes, a daughter of John Robartes, 1st Earl of Radnor, by his second wife, Isabella, daughter of Sir John Smith.
Notes
- Attribution
Dunlop, Robert (1891). "Hopkins, Ezekiel". In Lee, Sidney. Dictionary of National Biography 27. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
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| Name |
Hopkins, Ezekiel |
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| Short description |
Irish bishop |
| Date of birth |
1634 |
| Place of birth |
Crediton, Devon |
| Date of death |
1690 |
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