Hopkinson, John.
Adm. pens. at TRINITY, May 27, 1867. [Eldest] s. of John [Alderman and mechanical engineer, of Manchester]. B. there July 27, 1849. Educated privately [Lindow Grove, and Queenwood College, Hants.] and at Owens College,
Manchester; Whitworth Scholar, 1869. Matric. Michs. 1867; Scholar, 1868;Sheepshanks exhibitioner, 1868; B.A. (Senior Wrangler; equal Smith's prize) 1871; M.A. 1875. Fellow, 1871. Matric. at London University, Jan. 1867;
B.Sc. (London) 1868; D.Sc. (London) 1871. Manager and engineer in the lighthouse and optical dept. of Messrs Chance Bros., at Birmingham, 1872-8; invented the 'group-flash' system, 1874. Experimented on residual charge of
Leyden jars from 1876. Consulting engineer in London, 1878-98. F.R.S., 1878;Member of Council, 1886-7 and 1891-3; Royal medal, 1890. Invented the 'three-wire' system of distribution used for electric lighting and the
'series-parallel' control for electric locomotives. M.I.C.E., 1877; Member of Council, 1895-8. M.I.E.E., 1881; President, 1890 and 1896. Professor of
electrical engineering at King's College, London, 1890-8. Consulting Engineer for the electrical work on the City and S. London Railway. Electrical engineer for the Kirkstall and Roundhay tramway at Leeds, 1896. Major in command of Volunteer Corps of Electrical Engineers, 1897-8. Author of many papers to learned societies; a collected edition published in two volumes, 1901.
One of five brothers who were all members of the Alpine Club, probably a unique instance. They were also active in the development of rock-climbing in the British Isles. Killed Aug. 27, 1898, with three of his children, while
climbing the Petite Dent de Veisivi in the Val d'Hérens, Switzerland; they were without a guide and the cause of the accident was not known. Buried at Territet. Mrs Hopkinson and her surviving children gave £5000 towards an extension of the Cambridge engineering laboratory as a memorial to her husband and their son. At Owens College his father and other relatives had an electro-technical laboratory built in his memory. Brother of Albert (1882) and Edward (1877); father of John G. (1898) and Bertram (1891). (D.N.B.; Boase, v. 698; C.U. Hist. Reg.; Gunther, Early Science inCambridge, 108, 116; Alpine Club Reg.)
Hopkinson was an ardent mountaineer and his holidays were usually spent climbing in Switzerland, especially in the neighbourhood of Arolla. His death, at the early age of forty-nine, was due to a terrible alpine accident. On 27 August 1898, he, his son John, and two of his daughters, died while ascending the Petite Dent de Veisivi in the Val d'Herens, an offshoot from the Rhone valley. A few days later all the bodies were recovered; they were buried in the cemetery at Territet.
On the 27 August 1898, Hopkinson and three of his children, John Gustave, Alice and Lina Evelyn, were killed in a mountaineering accident on the Petite Dent de Veisivi, Val d'Herens, in the Pennine Alps, Switzerland.
There is a memorial sundial to Alice Hopkinson in the gardens of Newnham College, Cambridge from which she had recently graduated; the Lina Evelyn Hopkinson Scholarship is awarded to pupils at Wimbledon High School for English Literature.
Adm. pens. at TRINITY, May 27, 1867. [Eldest] s. of John [Alderman and mechanical engineer, of Manchester]. B. there July 27, 1849. Educated privately [Lindow Grove, and Queenwood College, Hants.] and at Owens College,
Manchester; Whitworth Scholar, 1869. Matric. Michs. 1867; Scholar, 1868;Sheepshanks exhibitioner, 1868; B.A. (Senior Wrangler; equal Smith's prize) 1871; M.A. 1875. Fellow, 1871. Matric. at London University, Jan. 1867;
B.Sc. (London) 1868; D.Sc. (London) 1871. Manager and engineer in the lighthouse and optical dept. of Messrs Chance Bros., at Birmingham, 1872-8; invented the 'group-flash' system, 1874. Experimented on residual charge of
Leyden jars from 1876. Consulting engineer in London, 1878-98. F.R.S., 1878;Member of Council, 1886-7 and 1891-3; Royal medal, 1890. Invented the 'three-wire' system of distribution used for electric lighting and the
'series-parallel' control for electric locomotives. M.I.C.E., 1877; Member of Council, 1895-8. M.I.E.E., 1881; President, 1890 and 1896. Professor of
electrical engineering at King's College, London, 1890-8. Consulting Engineer for the electrical work on the City and S. London Railway. Electrical engineer for the Kirkstall and Roundhay tramway at Leeds, 1896. Major in command of Volunteer Corps of Electrical Engineers, 1897-8. Author of many papers to learned societies; a collected edition published in two volumes, 1901.
One of five brothers who were all members of the Alpine Club, probably a unique instance. They were also active in the development of rock-climbing in the British Isles. Killed Aug. 27, 1898, with three of his children, while
climbing the Petite Dent de Veisivi in the Val d'Hérens, Switzerland; they were without a guide and the cause of the accident was not known. Buried at Territet. Mrs Hopkinson and her surviving children gave £5000 towards an extension of the Cambridge engineering laboratory as a memorial to her husband and their son. At Owens College his father and other relatives had an electro-technical laboratory built in his memory. Brother of Albert (1882) and Edward (1877); father of John G. (1898) and Bertram (1891). (D.N.B.; Boase, v. 698; C.U. Hist. Reg.; Gunther, Early Science inCambridge, 108, 116; Alpine Club Reg.)
Hopkinson was an ardent mountaineer and his holidays were usually spent climbing in Switzerland, especially in the neighbourhood of Arolla. His death, at the early age of forty-nine, was due to a terrible alpine accident. On 27 August 1898, he, his son John, and two of his daughters, died while ascending the Petite Dent de Veisivi in the Val d'Herens, an offshoot from the Rhone valley. A few days later all the bodies were recovered; they were buried in the cemetery at Territet.
On the 27 August 1898, Hopkinson and three of his children, John Gustave, Alice and Lina Evelyn, were killed in a mountaineering accident on the Petite Dent de Veisivi, Val d'Herens, in the Pennine Alps, Switzerland.
There is a memorial sundial to Alice Hopkinson in the gardens of Newnham College, Cambridge from which she had recently graduated; the Lina Evelyn Hopkinson Scholarship is awarded to pupils at Wimbledon High School for English Literature.
Hopkinson, John.
Adm. pens. at TRINITY, May 27, 1867. [Eldest] s. of John [Alderman and mechanical engineer, of Manchester]. B. there July 27, 1849. Educated privately [Lindow Grove, and Queenwood College, Hants.] and at Owens College,
Manchester; Whitworth Scholar, 1869. Matric. Michs. 1867; Scholar, 1868;Sheepshanks exhibitioner, 1868; B.A. (Senior Wrangler; equal Smith's prize) 1871; M.A. 1875. Fellow, 1871. Matric. at London University, Jan. 1867;
B.Sc. (London) 1868; D.Sc. (London) 1871. Manager and engineer in the lighthouse and optical dept. of Messrs Chance Bros., at Birmingham, 1872-8; invented the 'group-flash' system, 1874. Experimented on residual charge of
Leyden jars from 1876. Consulting engineer in London, 1878-98. F.R.S., 1878;Member of Council, 1886-7 and 1891-3; Royal medal, 1890. Invented the 'three-wire' system of distribution used for electric lighting and the
'series-parallel' control for electric locomotives. M.I.C.E., 1877; Member of Council, 1895-8. M.I.E.E., 1881; President, 1890 and 1896. Professor of
electrical engineering at King's College, London, 1890-8. Consulting Engineer for the electrical work on the City and S. London Railway. Electrical engineer for the Kirkstall and Roundhay tramway at Leeds, 1896. Major in command of Volunteer Corps of Electrical Engineers, 1897-8. Author of many papers to learned societies; a collected edition published in two volumes, 1901.
One of five brothers who were all members of the Alpine Club, probably a unique instance. They were also active in the development of rock-climbing in the British Isles. Killed Aug. 27, 1898, with three of his children, while
climbing the Petite Dent de Veisivi in the Val d'Hérens, Switzerland; they were without a guide and the cause of the accident was not known. Buried at Territet. Mrs Hopkinson and her surviving children gave £5000 towards an extension of the Cambridge engineering laboratory as a memorial to her husband and their son. At Owens College his father and other relatives had an electro-technical laboratory built in his memory. Brother of Albert (1882) and Edward (1877); father of John G. (1898) and Bertram (1891). (D.N.B.; Boase, v. 698; C.U. Hist. Reg.; Gunther, Early Science inCambridge, 108, 116; Alpine Club Reg.)
Hopkinson was an ardent mountaineer and his holidays were usually spent climbing in Switzerland, especially in the neighbourhood of Arolla. His death, at the early age of forty-nine, was due to a terrible alpine accident. On 27 August 1898, he, his son John, and two of his daughters, died while ascending the Petite Dent de Veisivi in the Val d'Herens, an offshoot from the Rhone valley. A few days later all the bodies were recovered; they were buried in the cemetery at Territet.
On the 27 August 1898, Hopkinson and three of his children, John Gustave, Alice and Lina Evelyn, were killed in a mountaineering accident on the Petite Dent de Veisivi, Val d'Herens, in the Pennine Alps, Switzerland.
There is a memorial sundial to Alice Hopkinson in the gardens of Newnham College, Cambridge from which she had recently graduated; the Lina Evelyn Hopkinson Scholarship is awarded to pupils at Wimbledon High School for English Literature.
Adm. pens. at TRINITY, May 27, 1867. [Eldest] s. of John [Alderman and mechanical engineer, of Manchester]. B. there July 27, 1849. Educated privately [Lindow Grove, and Queenwood College, Hants.] and at Owens College,
Manchester; Whitworth Scholar, 1869. Matric. Michs. 1867; Scholar, 1868;Sheepshanks exhibitioner, 1868; B.A. (Senior Wrangler; equal Smith's prize) 1871; M.A. 1875. Fellow, 1871. Matric. at London University, Jan. 1867;
B.Sc. (London) 1868; D.Sc. (London) 1871. Manager and engineer in the lighthouse and optical dept. of Messrs Chance Bros., at Birmingham, 1872-8; invented the 'group-flash' system, 1874. Experimented on residual charge of
Leyden jars from 1876. Consulting engineer in London, 1878-98. F.R.S., 1878;Member of Council, 1886-7 and 1891-3; Royal medal, 1890. Invented the 'three-wire' system of distribution used for electric lighting and the
'series-parallel' control for electric locomotives. M.I.C.E., 1877; Member of Council, 1895-8. M.I.E.E., 1881; President, 1890 and 1896. Professor of
electrical engineering at King's College, London, 1890-8. Consulting Engineer for the electrical work on the City and S. London Railway. Electrical engineer for the Kirkstall and Roundhay tramway at Leeds, 1896. Major in command of Volunteer Corps of Electrical Engineers, 1897-8. Author of many papers to learned societies; a collected edition published in two volumes, 1901.
One of five brothers who were all members of the Alpine Club, probably a unique instance. They were also active in the development of rock-climbing in the British Isles. Killed Aug. 27, 1898, with three of his children, while
climbing the Petite Dent de Veisivi in the Val d'Hérens, Switzerland; they were without a guide and the cause of the accident was not known. Buried at Territet. Mrs Hopkinson and her surviving children gave £5000 towards an extension of the Cambridge engineering laboratory as a memorial to her husband and their son. At Owens College his father and other relatives had an electro-technical laboratory built in his memory. Brother of Albert (1882) and Edward (1877); father of John G. (1898) and Bertram (1891). (D.N.B.; Boase, v. 698; C.U. Hist. Reg.; Gunther, Early Science inCambridge, 108, 116; Alpine Club Reg.)
Hopkinson was an ardent mountaineer and his holidays were usually spent climbing in Switzerland, especially in the neighbourhood of Arolla. His death, at the early age of forty-nine, was due to a terrible alpine accident. On 27 August 1898, he, his son John, and two of his daughters, died while ascending the Petite Dent de Veisivi in the Val d'Herens, an offshoot from the Rhone valley. A few days later all the bodies were recovered; they were buried in the cemetery at Territet.
On the 27 August 1898, Hopkinson and three of his children, John Gustave, Alice and Lina Evelyn, were killed in a mountaineering accident on the Petite Dent de Veisivi, Val d'Herens, in the Pennine Alps, Switzerland.
There is a memorial sundial to Alice Hopkinson in the gardens of Newnham College, Cambridge from which she had recently graduated; the Lina Evelyn Hopkinson Scholarship is awarded to pupils at Wimbledon High School for English Literature.
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