Major Daniel Hopkin MC (July 1886 – 30 Aug 1951)[1] was a British soldier, barrister and Labour Party politician.
Hopkin was born in Llantwit Major in South Wales, the son of a farm labourer who died in 1893 when Daniel was seven.
[4][5] After the war ended he spent "four years in business in Cairo" before training to become a barrister, where he served on the South Wales Circuit.
He had narrowly failed to win the seat at a by-election in 1928, and his slender majority in 1929 was overturned by the Liberals the 1931 general election, as Labour's share of the vote nationally plummeted when the party split over Ramsay MacDonald's decision to form a National Government with the Conservative Party.
[6] Hopkin regained the seat with a large majority at the 1935 general election, and held it until his resignation in 1941 to become a Metropolitan Police magistrate.