Lieutenant-General Sir Edward Hopton KCB DL JP (7 February 1837 – 19 January 1912) was a British Army officer who became Lieutenant Governor of Jersey.

[1] After the death of the previous holder, he was on 15 January 1900 appointed regimental colonel of the Connaught Rangers.

[7] Hopton was appointed Lieutenant Governor of Jersey in 1895, and thus also in command of the troops on the island.

[8] During the Second Boer War he had some difficulty maintaining order on Jersey in the face of Pro-Boer attitudes of some of the French Islanders.

[8] In 1874, he married Clare Ellen Trafford; they had two sons and two daughters.