Charles Henry Hopwood
British politician and judge (1829–1904)
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Career
Hopwood was born on 20 July 1829.[1] He was educated at King's College School and at King's College London. He was admitted to the Middle Temple on 2 November 1850 and was Called to the Bar on 6 June 1853.[2] He served as Liberal Member of Parliament for Stockport from 1874 to 1885, and as Liberal MP for Middleton from 1892 to 1895.[3]
Hopwood became QC in 1874.[3] He was appointed Recorder of Liverpool in 1886. In politics he supported Irish Home Rule.[4]
Hopwood gave a lecture to the Humanitarian League on prison reform but did not join the League as a member. His lecture was published by the League as A Plea for Mercy to Offenders in 1894.[5] He was an anti-vaccinationist.[6]
Hopwood died at Hampstead.[3] He is buried with other family members in Kensal Green Cemetery. The grave lies on a central path, west of the central building structure.
Selected publications
- Speeches of Mr. P. A. Taylor and Mr. C. H. Hopwood on Vaccination: In the House of Commons (1883)
- A Plea for Mercy to Offenders (Humanitarian League, 1894)