Sir Henry Thomas Hopkinson CBE (19 April 1905 – 20 June 1990) was a British journalist, picture magazine editor, author, and teacher.

Born in Manchester, his father was John Hopkinson,[1] a Church of England clergyman and a scholar, and his mother had been a school mistress.

He was soon working for Stefan Lorant on Weekly Illustrated magazine, and wrote short stories and novels during his free time.

Hopkinson provided the textual material for the South African volume of the Life World Library published by Time Inc in 1965.

[citation needed] Hopkinson wrote a recollection of his time as editor of Drum in a memoir titled In the Fiery Continent.

Hopkinson married three times; his wives were Antonia White (m. 1930), Gerti Deutsch (m. 1938) and Dorothy Kingsmill née Vernon (m.

[1] He was the father of three children: Hopkinson and his last wife, Dorothy, co-authored Much Silence (Gollancz, 1974), a biography of Meher Baba.