Arthur Hopton (died 1607)
Arthur Hopton, of Witham, Somerset, was an English politician. He was member of parliament for Dunwich in 1571, and for Suffolk in 1589.
He was the first son of Owen Hopton and Anne, elder daughter of Sir Edward Echyngham and Ann Everard. He married Rachel, daughter of Edmund Hall of Greatford, Lincolnshire. Rachel was the niece of William Willoughby, 1st Baron Willoughby of Parham, whose sister Dorothy Willoughby was the wife of Sir Ralph Hopton. Sir Ralph, who was a kinsman of the half-blood to Arthur Hopton, made himself responsible for Rachel's upbringing, arranged her marriage to Arthur, and settled the reversion of most of his lands upon them in tail male, including his estate of Witham Friary in Somerset. Arthur himself was co-executor to his uncle Robert Hopton and guardian of Robert's daughter Dorothy, who married Arthur's son Owen Hopton.Family
The children of Arthur Hopton are shown as follows in the Somerset Visitation of 1623:
- Owen Hopton, married Dorothy, daughter and heir of "Sir" Robert Hopton.
- Robert Hopton, married Jane, daughter and heir of Rowland Keymis of the Vaudrey, Monmouthshire.
- Thomas Hopton.
- Arthur Hopton.
- Philadelphia Hopton, married Sir John Ernley, of, Wiltshire.
- Margaret Hopton, married Sir John Rogers of Bryanston, Dorset.
