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Robert Thurston Hopkins

Robert Thurston Hopkins (1884–1958) was a British writer and ghost hunter.

Robert Thurston Hopkins
Born1884
Died1958
Occupation(s)Writer, ghost hunter
Years active1913–1956

Hopkins was born in Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk in 1884.[1]

Hopkins wrote biographical works on Rudyard Kipling and Oscar Wilde. He also wrote books on the English countryside.[2]

Hopkins was a ghost hunter known for his books on ghosts. He described his experiences in his book Adventures with Phantoms (1946). He claimed to have encountered the ghost of a hanged man in a woodland near Burwash on two occasions in the 1930s.[3]

His son was Godfrey Thurston Hopkins (1913–2014), known as Thurston, well-known Picture Post photojournalist.

Publications

  • Oscar Wilde: A Study of the Man and His Work (1913)
  • War and the Weird (1916)
  • Kipling's Sussex (1921)
  • Rudyard Kipling, a Character Study: Life, Writings and Literary Landmarks (1921)
  • H. G. Wells: Personality, Character, Topography (1922)
  • Thomas Hardy's Dorset (1922)
  • Rudyard Kipling's World (1925)
  • The Kipling Country (1925)
  • The Literary Landmarks of Devon & Cornwall (1926)
  • Old English Mills and Inns (1927)
  • This London: Its Taverns, Haunts and Memories (1927)
  • London Pilgrimages (1928)
  • The Lure of London (1929)
  • In Search of English Windmills (1931)
  • Old Windmills of England (1931)
  • The Man Who Was Sussex (1933)
  • Life and death at the Old Bailey (1935)
  • Moated Houses of England (1935)
  • Adventures with Phantoms (1946)
  • The Heart of London (1951)
  • Ghosts Over England (1953)
  • The World's Strangest Ghost Stories (1955?)
  • Cavalcade of Ghosts (1956)

References

  1. ^ Beckett, Arthur. "The Decline and Fall of the Windmill". Sussex Mills Group. Retrieved 20 November 2019.
  2. ^ "Robert Thurston Hopkins" Mention, with dates, in biography of his son Thurston Hopkins at Rogallery.
  3. ^ Adams, Paul. (2013). Extreme Hauntings: Britain's Most Terrifying Ghosts. The History Press. pp. 130-131. ISBN 978-0752465357

External links

  Media related to Robert Thurston Hopkins at Wikimedia Commons


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