John Collier Frederick Hopkins

John Collier Frederick Hopkins (12 May 1898 in Stamford Hill, Greater London – 1 October 1981 in Maughold, Isle of Man) was a British mycologist.

Having worked for two years in Uganda as an agriculture officer, Hopkins was appointed in 1926 as mycologist in Southern Rhodesia, and from 1946 to 1954 as Chief Botanist and Plant Pathologist.

In 1954 he returned to England as Assistant Director of the Commonwealth Mycological Institute, Kew, and two years later he followed S.P.

On his retirement in 1964 he moved first to Hastings, and then to the Isle of Man where he assembled a collection of fungi.

[2][3] Hopkins married Elizabeth Callister Rothnie (1914-1993) and they had a daughter called Evadne.