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Principal Shortley landowner when he acceded to the estate in 1846, Hopkins-Northey, who was lord of Foleshill manor, died in 1859. See PA242/7/23 for his Hall Green land. For his property at Bishopgate Green in Coventry and at Foleshill, see PA279 series 2; for that at Shortley, see PA279 series 3; for Foleshill, see also PA279 series 4 and PA279/10/894; for Allesley, see PA279 series 5; for Barston, Warwickshire, see PA279 series 6; for that in the vicinity of Victoria Colliery, Wyken, see PA279 series 8; for his house at Wilton Cres., Belgrave Square, London, see PA279/74. As principal landowner in Shortley, he owned Altgeder Mill. He extinguished tithes on his Pinley lands (1845 - BA/D/A/47/26). Hopkins-Northey married Ann Elizabeth Fortescue of Clifton, Bristol in 1807 - see BA/D/A/47/34,45 passim, 49. See BA/D/A/47/14 et seq, 32. In the Hopkins estate archive, PA194/8/44; PA194/9/41-42; PA194/11/41,43; PA194/12/8-22 relate to him. See PA491/36/16 for his Hawkes End land. See PA491/53/2 for his Alderman's Green land. See PA491/60/1.I for his Bishopgate Green land, also CCA/2/3/785/3, wherein he is called Colonel Northey. Richard Northey Hopkins and W.R. Hopkins Northey sold Earl Street property to the ribbon-manufacturer Thomas Brown (q.v.) - see CCA/2/3/441/59.II(c). For land at Parting of the Heaths, see PA2770/40/1.I. He had land behind Earl Street - see CCA/2/3/312/15,26.X,XI; CCA/2/3/314/49.I(b).