Edward Hopkins (MP)

He stood for Coventry again at the 1705 English general election, although he could not attend the poll as he had fallen off his horse in Pall Mall.

In Parliament he was a teller for the Whigs on divisions, he voted for the naturalization of the Palatines in 1709 and for the impeachment of Dr Sacheverell in 1710.

[4] He died on 17 January 1736, at Ewell in Surrey and was buried at St Michael's Church, Coventry, as were his parents, wife, and eldest son.

The family monument described him as "a person eminently distinguished for parts, politeness and all other amiable qualities" and noted his death date as "January 17th, 1735-6".

[8] The Warwickshire local historian Mary Dormer Harris published an article about his memoirs in the English Historical Review, in 1919.