Vice Admiral Edward Hopson (1671 – 8 May 1728) was a Royal Navy officer who served as Commander-in-Chief of the Jamaica Station.

[2] Captain Hopson appears to have spent most of the rest of the War of the Spanish Succession stationed in the Mediterranean, in command of a newly built replacement Mary.

When Jennings sailed home, Hopson took over command in the Mediterranean, and was promoted to become vice admiral of the blue on 19 April 1727.

With relations with Spain descending into a war, Gibraltar was reinforced by six ships under Sir Charles Wager, who took command of the post.

[2] In December 1727, Hopson was ordered to take command in the West Indies, which had been left without an admiral following the death of Sir Francis Hosier that August.