Susanna Hopton

Susanna Hopton née Harvey (1627–1709) was an English devotional writer.

Largely self-educated, she married Richard Hopton of Kington, Herefordshire, a barrister, and judge.

Two close friends among the nonjuring clergy were George Hickes and Nathaniel Spinckes, both of whom published accounts of her life.

[1] Before her last illness Hopton moved from Kington to Hereford, where she died of a fever on 12 July 1709, aged 81.

[1] They drew on unpublished work of Thomas Traherne; Hopton may have known him, given that her niece Susanna Blount married Philip Traherne, and the Hoptons lived for some time at Gattertop, Hope under Dinmore, not far from Credenhill.