Charles Ernest Hopton (13 February 1861 – 20 December 1946) was Archdeacon of Birmingham from 1915 to 1944.[1][2]
Hopton was born in 1861,[3] educated at Clifton College,[4] Hereford Cathedral School and St John’s College, Cambridge[5] and ordained in 1885.[6] After curacies in Selly Oak and Redditch[7] he was Vicar of Stretton Grandison[8] with Ashperton;[9] St Stephen’s,[10] Worcester;[11] and then Moseley before his Archdeacon’s appointment.