Edward michael Hopton 1916

Edward was born in Bengal, India to  Lt General Edward and Clare Hopton, nee Trafford.

Edward Michael Hopton, the son of Lieutenant-General Sir Edward Hopton, KCB, a former Lieutenant-Governor of Jersey, was born 16th September, 1884. He entered College in 1895, remaining for two years, and then went on to Bradfield. He took up farming in Herefordshire (his native county) and was especially interested in Hereford cattle and in breeding hunters. From 1910 he held a commission in the 1st Shropshire Yeomanry.  In 1911 he married Christabel, daughter of Lieutenant-Colonel Bourne, of Cowarne Court, Herefordshire.

He went out with the Yeomanry, and died of pneumonia while serving with them in Egypt, in March 17 1916.

Edward was 31 when he died.