Charles Hopton


Charles Ernest Hopton was Archdeacon of Birmingham from 1915 to 1944.
Hopton was born in 1861, educated at Clifton College, Hereford Cathedral School and St John’s College, Cambridge and ordained in 1885.
After curacies in Selly Oak and Redditch he was Vicar of Stretton Grandison with Ashperton; St Stephen’s, Worcester; and then Moseley before his Archdeacon’s appointment.