title: Sir John Hopkins, 1st Baronet
text: # Sir John Hopkins, 1st Baronet
  
  Sir John Wells Wainwright Hopkins, 1st Baronet (16 February 1863 – 16 February 1946) was an English civil engineer and a Conservative Party politician. He was the Member of Parliament (MP) for St Pancras South East from 1918 to 1923, and from 1924 to 1929.
  
  Hopkins was born in Islington, London in 1863. He was made a baronet in 1929.
  
  ## Family life
  
  Hopkins married Ethelind Mackern in 1894, they had two sons and a daughter. Hopkins died 16 February 1946 at his home in Lingfield, Surrey aged 83. Both his sons had been killed in action, in 1916 and 1942, leaving no heir to the title.
  
  