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An M.P. (though not for Coventry) for 38 years, and a Lord Commissioner of the Admiralty, Hopkins was involved with Foleshill tithes (see PA101/5/19) and in 1744 (through his mother) obtained the surrender of land at Shortley from Thomas Gibberd (see PA362/1/1). By separate 1775 enclosure-awards, Hopkins received ordinary and mining-land at Foleshill (cf. PA56/114/1: PA491/20/7.XVII). See PA242/4/5-6 for his land at Church Field and Great Heath, PA242/7/1.XII for some at Hall Green which he exchanged for Thomas Smith's allotment on Great Heath, and PA1681/7/1-2 for that at Three Well Field. On his death on 18th Mar. 1799 at the age of 71, Foleshill manor passed from the direct family - Hopkins lived at Oving House, Buckinghamshire. In 1745 a Hopkins owned a house at Allesley - see PA295/1: PA56/68/8 (1785). Hopkins inherited a house beyond Gosford Bars (see PA202/10/12) and sold land at Holbrooks in 1786 (see PA202/23/1-2). In 1777 Hopkins leased Shortley land (see PA171/5/1). Foleshill manor passed to Hopkins' sister (see PA279/5/1). PA279/4/1 is a survey of Hopkins' Foleshill estate in 1776, of which PA279/1/1 is a copy. For the Gosford Bars house, see BA/D/H/14/14. He owned the "Seven Stars" estate at Whitley (1793 - BA/D/A/47/9). See BA/D/A/47/11 for his purchase in 1798 of Pinley tithes. For Hopkins' Bishopgate Green land, see BA/H/H/321/1, dated 1783. BA/D/A/47/45.I abstracts his 1782 will. See BA/H/H/323/1. For the Shortley land, see PA54/154/9. He held a Far Gosford St. tenement from the corporation - see PA54/155/2. Baptised at St. James' Place, London in 1728 and succeeded eventually in his estate by his younger sister Anne's son Richard Northey, who had to take the name of Hopkins to inherit; relevant documents in the Hopkins estate collection are PA194/8/43; PA194/11/30-34,38-39; PA194/12/5,6.VII,7,8,11; PA194/21/4; PA194/22/1; PA194/32/3. Hopkins exchanged 20p. at Great Heath with William Satchwell at the time of enclosure (PA491/95/5). As manorial lord, Hopkins was the most extensively involved of all the local proprietors when Foleshill was enclosed in 1775 - see PA1001. In 1769 he had an interest in Coventry Canal's prospective course (PA1484/77/757,857,866). See PA1484/77/837. For his Trap Lane, Three Well Field, Little Heath land, 1771, see also CCA/2/3/434/19. In 1751 Hopkins sold Bastille Meadow - see CCA/2/3/105/1.