Colonel John Hopton (born John Dutton Hunt; 30 December 1858 – 1 June 1934) was a British soldier, landowner, musician, and Olympic marksman. Educated...
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Hopton may refer to: Hopton, Derbyshire Hopton-on-Sea, Norfolk Hopton (by Nesscliffe), Shropshire Hopton Cangeford, Shropshire Hopton Castle and Hopton...
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Ralph Hopton, 1st Baron Hopton KB, JP, DL, MP (1596 – 28 September 1652) was an English politician, military officer and peer. During the First English...
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William Stanley (died 1495) (category 15th-century English soldiers)
Worcester, Sir William married secondly, c.1471, Elizabeth Hopton (d. 1498), daughter of Thomas Hopton with whom he had a daughter, Jane Stanley. He is known...
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Arthur Hopton (1488–15/16 August 1555) of Cockfield Hall in Yoxford, Suffolk was an English knight, landowner, magistrate, and Member of Parliament. John Hopton...
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hill. As they were doing so, they spotted Parliamentarian soldiers approaching, and Hopton hurriedly recalled the infantry and set his men to meet the...
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the war in the West Country; arrested for insubordination by Sir Ralph Hopton in early 1646, he was released when the Royalists surrendered in March....
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lived quietly in London where he died in October 1671. John Gell was born 22 June 1593 in Hopton, Derbyshire to Thomas Gell (1532–1594) and Millicent Sacheverell...
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Battle of Hopton Heath. Northampton was the son of William Compton, 1st Earl of Northampton, and his wife Elizabeth, daughter and heir of Sir John Spencer...
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Charles I. Now he frequented the society of cavaliers of note, such Lords Hopton, Colepeper and Percy. If he were furnished with ten thousand pounds, he...
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being Sir Ralph Hopton, an old friend leading Royalist forces in the west. After the inconclusive Battle of Lansdowne on 5 July, Hopton was joined by Prince...
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lodgings by one of his own soldiers, Captain Hurst, over a pay dispute. The historian Peter Young speculates that Hopton may have been on leave, as the...
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north, when the Queen's convoy should arrive from overseas. In the west, Hopton and his friends, having obtained a true bill from the grand jury against...
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troops of horse, withdrawn by Hopton prior to the siege. The governor, Colonel Joseph Bampfield, was an experienced soldier, who constructed additional...
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John Bell (1812–1895) was a British sculptor, born in Bell's Row, Great Yarmouth, Norfolk. His family home was Hopton Hall, Suffolk. His works were shown...
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into Cornwall with the rank of commissary-general to act under Sir Ralph Hopton as lieutenant-general. The royalist forces defeated, in May 1643, the Earl...
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Devon Trained Bands (redirect from Sir John Drake's Regiment of Devon Trained Bands)
Bideford and Barnstaple, which were masked while Hopton joined the Royalist Western Army in Somerset. Sir John Berkeley began a close siege of Exeter in June...
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Sir John Cope KB MP (July 1688 – 28 July 1760) was a British soldier, and Whig Member of Parliament, representing three separate constituencies between...
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played the headmaster of Thursgood's Preparatory School in Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (1979). Wells was one of the original contributors to the satirical...
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the hill. Each of the assault columns was composed of 600 foot soldiers and 2 guns. Hopton led the first column from the southeast, while Francis Bassett...
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of the parliamentarian soldier, the first baronet, Sir John Gell The children of his elder brother, Philip Eyre Gell of Hopton Hall were mentioned in...
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Parliamentarian force under James Chudleigh defeated a Royalist army under Sir Ralph Hopton. Casualties on both sides were light, and the result had little impact on...
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4 – The Scribe, Institute Scientist, Mr. Able, Benjamin Beasley, Cedric Hopton, Fisherman, Settlers, Vault 81 Residents Fallout 4: Nuka-World – Maurice...
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with his soldiers near mutiny from poor weather conditions. He tried again on the night of 11 November, but retreated to Farnham to await Hopton's army....
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B. Warner as Doctor Brown Ben Alexander as Corporal John Clarke Andy Devine as Mac Russell Hopton as Legion Doctor Betty Blythe as Dolores Delight Sidney...
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September 2017. p.288Money Barnes, Major R. The Soldiers of London Seeley, Service & Co 1963 R. Virgoe, 'Hopton, Sir Ralph (1509/10-71), of Witham, Som.',...
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Earl of Northampton clashed with a Parliamentarian army under Sir John Gell at Hopton Heath. One Royalist charge over-ran the Parliamentarian artillery...
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Somerset Trained Bands (redirect from Arthur Hopton's Somerset Trained Band)
the command of: George Sydenham Sir Henry Berkeley Sir John Stowell Sir John Clyfton Arthur Hopton The county sent off 600 men to join Queen Elizabeth I's...
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were more successful in recruiting cavalry and members of the gentry; Hopton, John Digby and Francis Hawley each brought a troop of horse, but attempts...
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Wyngfeld, Sir Wm. Walgrave, Sir Ric. Wentworth, Sir John Shelton, Sir Arthur Hopton, Sir Rob. Courson, Sir John Audley, Thos. Felton, _ Branzton, Sir Wm. Sidney...
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