Hopkins, R. Thurston 1884-1958
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Name (Latin)
Hopkins, R. Thurston 1884-1958
Other forms of name
Hopkins, Robert Thurston, 1884-1958
Date of birth
1884
Date of death
1958
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eng
Gender
male
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Sources of Information
- His Rudyard Kipling ... 1916:t.p. (R. Thurston Hopkins)
- About.com. Photography, viewed Sept. 4, 2007Thurston Hopkins 1913- (son of Robert Thurston Hopkins 1884-1958; prolific author; wrote topographical works, ghost stories and more, including biographical works on Oscar Wilde, H G Wells and Rudyard Kipling)
Wikipedia description:
Robert Thurston Hopkins (1884–1958) was a British writer and ghost hunter. Hopkins was born in Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk in 1884. Hopkins wrote biographical works on Rudyard Kipling and Oscar Wilde. He also wrote books on the English countryside. 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. His son was Godfrey Thurston Hopkins (1913–2014), known as Thurston, well-known Picture Post photojournalist.
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