Aubrey Hopwood

[4] After a short period in which he served as a Lieutenant in the Northamptonshire Regiment, in 1884 he travelled to Orange County in Florida with his older brother, Robert Coventry De Vere Hopwood (1859‒1911), returning to the United States in 1886 and 1888.

The opera starred the usual Savoy Theatre cast from that period, including Walter Passmore, Henry Lytton, Robert Evett, Ruth Vincent, Emmie Owen and Isabel Jay.

[3][11] Hopwood wrote the lyrics for the musical farce The Merry Go-Round (1899)[12] to the book by Seymour Hicks and score by Meyer Lutz, with additional songs by Ellaline Terriss, among others.

[3][24] The play was adapted from the children's Christmas book The Sleepy King, a fairy tale written by Hopwood in 1898 in collaboration with Seymour Hicks and illustrated by Maud Trelawny.

[25] The Times described the book as "closely modelled on Alice in Wonderland, [and] is a clever and pretty imitation"; the critic for the St James's Gazette wrote that "The story is brimful of excellent fun, such as is bound to appeal to the hearts of children to whom the odd sayings and quaint antics of Blob and Blib, the extraordinary twins, should prove an inexhaustible source of mirth."

[28] Later his sister rented a house, the Beeches on Burton Hill in Malmesbury, and Hopwood lived with her there until he was admitted to The Retreat, a centre for the treatment of people with mental health needs in York, where he died aged 54 in October 1917 from tuberculosis and paralytic dementia (GPI).