Robert Thurston Hopkins (1884–1958) was a British writer and ghost hunter.
Robert Thurston Hopkins | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1884 Bury St Edmunds, England |
| Died | 1958 |
| Occupation(s) | Writer, ghost hunter |
| Years active | 1913–1956 |
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
edit- 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
edit- ^ Beckett, Arthur. "The Decline and Fall of the Windmill". Sussex Mills Group. Retrieved 20 November 2019.
- ^ "Robert Thurston Hopkins" Mention, with dates, in biography of his son Thurston Hopkins at Rogallery.
- ^ Adams, Paul. (2013). Extreme Hauntings: Britain's Most Terrifying Ghosts. The History Press. pp. 130-131. ISBN 978-0752465357
External links
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Media related to Robert Thurston Hopkins at Wikimedia Commons
- Works by Robert Thurston Hopkins at Project Gutenberg
- R. Thurston Hopkins at Library of Congress, with 39 library catalogue records
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