John Hopkins

John Hopkins (born 1675) was an Anglo-Irish poet. He was the second son of Ezekiel Hopkins, bishop of Derry, and younger brother of Charles Hopkins. Life He was born on 1 January 1675. John Hopkins graduated B.A. in 1693, and proceeded M.A. in 1698 from Jesus College, Cambridge. Works Hopkins published in 1698 two Pindaric poems: The Triumphs of Peace, or the Glories of Nassau … written at the time of his Grace the Duke of Ormond's entrance into Dublin; and The Victory of Death; or the Fall of Beauty, on the death of Lady Cutts (Elizabeth, second wife of John Cutts, 1st Baron Cutts).