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    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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  • 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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  • 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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    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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    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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  • 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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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  • 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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    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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    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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    commanded a regiment of horse under Lord Hopton, to whom he proposed the recapture of Arundel Castle. Hopton took it after three days' siege (19 December...
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