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Darwin Correspondence Project

Manley Hopkins

1818–97

Insurance average adjuster and consul-general. Started his own firm of average adjusters in marine insurance; consul-general in London for Hawaii. Father of the poet Gerard Manley Hopkins.

Source

ODNB s.v. Hopkins, Gerard Manley.

Bibliography

ODNB: Oxford dictionary of national biography: from the earliest times to the year 2000. (Revised edition.) Edited by H. C. G. Matthew and Brian Harrison. 60 vols. and index. Oxford: Oxford University Press. 2004.

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