Robert Hopton (c.1575–1638) was an English landowner and politician who sat in the House of Commons in two parliaments between 1604 and 1622.
[1] Hopton was the eldest son of Sir Arthur Hopton of Witham Friary, Somerset and his wife Rachel Hall, daughter of Edmund Hall of Greatford, Lincolnshire.
In 1604, he was elected Member of Parliament for Shaftesbury.
Between about 1609 and 1617 he was engaged in the construction of Evercreech House.
[2] By his wife Jane Kemys (daughter and heir of Rowland Kemys of the Vaudrey, or Faerdref, Monmouthshire), Robert Hopton had several children:[2]