Hopkins, R. Thurston 1884-1958

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.