Herbert Oxley Hopkins (6 July 1895 – 23 February 1972) was an Australian-born English[1] first-class cricketer who played 85 matches between the wars.
His father was an employee of the National Bank of Australasia at Eudunda, later at Woodville and Grange, and was captain of district cricket clubs in these locations.
The couple were involved with malaria research in Malaya, and were in Singapore at the time of the Japanese takeover of the island,[6] and were held at Sime Road internment camp for the duration of the war.
[10] In early July 1923 he hit 100* for Oxford against Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) at Lord's,[13] and won his Blue when he appeared in the Varsity Match at the same venue a few days later, making 42 in a crushing innings-and-227-run triumph over Cambridge University.
In late June 1924, he scored 137 in a losing cause against Nottinghamshire at Trent Bridge, and in the same match picked up three of the only four wickets he ever took: those of John Gunn, Len Richmond and Fred Barratt.