William Hopkins - Private Life

Private Life

Hopkins enjoyed music, poetry and landscape painting. He spent the end of his life in a lunatic asylum in Stoke Newington. He died there of chronic mania and exhaustion.

He had, with his second wife, one son and three daughters, among them morality campaigner Ellice Hopkins.

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