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British electrical engineer and politician

DrEdward HopkinsonM.P.

Born	(1859-05-28)28 May 1859 Manchester
Died	15 January 1922(1922-01-15) (aged 62) Alderley Edge, Cheshire
Education	University of Manchester, Emmanuel College, Cambridge
Occupation	Engineer
Parent(s)	John Hopkinson, Mayor of Manchester
Engineering career
Discipline	Civil engineering, mechanical engineering, electrical engineering
Institutions	Institution of Civil Engineers, Institution of Mechanical Engineers
Employer(s)	Mather & Platt
Awards	Telford Medal (1888)

Edward Hopkinson (28 May 1859 – 15 January 1922) was a British civil, mechanical and electrical engineer, and Conservative politician.

Background and education

Hopkinson was the fourth son of John Hopkinson, an engineer who was mayor of Manchester in 1882/83.

Hopkinson was educated at Owen's College, Manchester and Emmanuel College, Cambridge. He graduated from Emmanuel in 1881 and was made a fellow of the college in 1883. In 1882 he began to study mechanical and electrical engineering under Sir William Siemens, and received a doctorate from the University of London.

Hopkinson married Minnie Campbell (1862-1936) of County Antrim, and they had two children, Edward Campbell (1889-1966) and Katharine Campbell (1897-1986). His elder brothers included the noted physicist and engineer John Hopkinson, and Sir Alfred Hopkinson, vice-chancellor of the University of Manchester, and amongst his nephews were engineer and scientist Bertram Hopkinson, and Austin Hopkinson, MP. Edward Hopkinson died at his residence in Alderley Edge, Cheshire in 1922, aged 62, his wife died in 1936.

Hopkinson was involved in a number of large pioneering electrification projects. These included the Bessbrook and Newry Tramway, the Snaefell Mountain Railway the Blackpool and Fleetwood tramways and the City and South London Railway. For a paper on his pioneering work on the Bessbrook and Newry tramway he was awarded the Telford Medal in 1888 by the Institution of Civil Engineers and for a paper on his work on the C&SLR the George Stephenson Medal in 1893 by the same society. In 1884 he joined Mather and Platt engineering company of Salford as head of the electrical engineering department, and rose to become vice-chairman of the company.

From 1916 to 1918 he was a member of the Indian Industrial Commission.

In 1918 he was chosen as the Coalition Conservative candidate for the newly formed Clayton constituency of Manchester. He was elected, defeating the Labour MP, J E Sutton.

^ Obituary: A Great Engineer, Mr Edward Hopkinson, The Times, 17 January 1922, p.12
"Former Mayors of Manchester (1838–1892)". The Lord Mayor's Office. Manchester City Council. Archived from the original on 11 May 2008. Retrieved 12 October 2008.
^ "Hopkinson, Edward (HPKN877E)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
^ Chorley, Katharine (2001). "Introduction". Manchester Made Them. Silk Press Ltd. pp. 7–10. ISBN 978-1902685090.

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Parliament of the United Kingdom
New constituency	Member of Parliament for Manchester Clayton 1918–1922	Succeeded byJohn Edward Sutton
Professional and academic associations
Preceded byMichael Longridge	President of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers 1919	Succeeded byMatthew Henry Phineas Riall Sankey

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