William Hopkins 1

William Hopkins 1

An English divine, was born at Evesham, Worcestershire, and educated at Trinity College, Oxford. He entered the ministry in 1675, and, after holding several minor appointments, was made vicar of Lindridge in 1686, and in 1697 master of St. Oswald's Hospital, Worcester. He died in 1700. He published Sermons (1683, 4to) — Bartram (or Rartram), on the Body and Blood of the Lord (2nd ed. 1688) — Animad. on Johnson's Answer to Jovian (London 1691, 8vo) — Latin translated of A Saxon Tract on the Burial places of the Saxon Saints (in Hickes's Septentrional Grammar, Oxford 1705). After his death, Dr. Geo. Hickes published Seventeen Sermons, with Life (London 1708, 8vo).