# Daniel Hopkin > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Daniel_Hopkin > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Daniel_Hopkin.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Hopkin > Source revision: 1345130368 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) {{Short description|British politician (1886–1951)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=February 2021}} Major '''Daniel Hopkin''' [MC](/source/Military_Cross) (July 1886 – 30 Aug 1951){{cite web | url = http://www.leighrayment.com/commons/Ccommons2.htm | title = House of Commons constituencies beginning with "C" (part 2) | work = Leigh Rayment's House of Commons pages | accessdate = 25 April 2009 | url-status = usurped | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20180613184220/http://www.leighrayment.com/commons/Ccommons2.htm | archive-date = 13 June 2018 }} was a British soldier, barrister and [Labour Party](/source/Labour_Party_(UK)) politician. ==Early life== Hopkin was born in [Llantwit Major](/source/Llantwit_Major) in [South Wales](/source/South_Wales), the son of a farm labourer who died in 1893 when Daniel was seven. After [elementary school](/source/elementary_school), he was a teacher in Llantwit Major School until 1905, when he left to study at Carmarthen Training College. He then won an [exhibition](/source/exhibition_(scholarship)) to study at [St Catharine's College, Cambridge](/source/St_Catharine's_College%2C_Cambridge), where he read history and law.{{cite web|url=http://www.llantwitmajorhistory.org.uk/people.html|title=Names associate with Llantwit Major|publisher=Llantwit Major Local History Society|accessdate=25 April 2009|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120222221438/http://www.llantwitmajorhistory.org.uk/people.html|archivedate=22 February 2012}}{{Who's Who | title=HOPKIN, Major Daniel | id = U238770 | type = was | volume = 2022 | edition = online}} During the [First World War](/source/First_World_War), Hopkin served as an officer with the [Royal Fusiliers](/source/Royal_Fusiliers). He was awarded the [Military Cross](/source/Military_Cross) in 1916 for conspicuous gallantry.{{cite web | url = http://www.london-gazette.co.uk/issues/29824/supplements/11056 | title = Issue 29824 | date = 14 November 1916 | work = The London Gazette | pages = 18 | accessdate =25 April 2009 }}{{cite web | url = http://www.london-gazette.co.uk/issues/34761/supplements/8582 | title = Issue 34761 | date = 26 December 1939 | work = The London Gazette | pages = 10 | accessdate =25 April 2009 }} After the war ended he spent "four years in business in Cairo" before training to become a barrister, where he served on the [South Wales Circuit](/source/Circuit_Court). He rejoined the army at the start of the [Second World War](/source/Second_World_War) in 1939. ==Politics== He was elected at the [1929 general election](/source/1929_United_Kingdom_general_election) as [Member of Parliament](/source/Member_of_Parliament_(United_Kingdom)) (MP) for [Carmarthen](/source/Carmarthen_(UK_Parliament_constituency)) in [South Wales](/source/South_Wales), becoming the first Labour MP for the historically [Liberal Party](/source/Liberal_Party_(UK))-held seat. He had narrowly failed to win the seat at a [by-election in 1928](/source/1928_Carmarthen_by-election), and his slender majority in 1929 was overturned by the Liberals the [1931 general election](/source/1931_United_Kingdom_general_election), as Labour's share of the vote nationally plummeted when the party split over [Ramsay MacDonald](/source/Ramsay_MacDonald)'s decision to form a [National Government](/source/First_National_Government_1931) with the [Conservative Party](/source/Conservative_Party_(UK)).{{cite book |last=Craig |first=F. W. S. |authorlink= F. W. S. Craig |title=British parliamentary election results 1918–1949 |orig-date=1969 |edition=3rd |year=1983 |publisher= Parliamentary Research Services |location=Chichester |isbn= 0-900178-06-X |page=551 }} Hopkin regained the seat with a large majority at the [1935 general election](/source/1935_United_Kingdom_general_election), and held it until his [resignation](/source/resignation_from_the_British_House_of_Commons) in 1941 to become a Metropolitan Police magistrate. His son [Sir David Hopkin](/source/David_Hopkin_(magistrate)) (1922–1997) was also a Metropolitan Stipendiary Magistrate for over 20 years, rising to [Chief Metropolitan Stipendiary Magistrate](/source/Chief_Metropolitan_Stipendiary_Magistrate), but is probably best known as the chairman and later President of the [British Boxing Board of Control](/source/British_Boxing_Board_of_Control).{{cite news|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/obituary-sir-david-hopkin-1238736.html|title=Obituary:Sir David Hopkin|last=Mee|first=Bob|date=12 September 1997|work=[The Independent](/source/The_Independent)|accessdate=25 April 2009}} ==References== {{reflist}} == External links == *{{Hansard-contribs | mr-daniel-hopkin | Daniel Hopkin }} *{{NPG name}} {{s-start}} {{s-par|uk}} {{succession box | title = [Member of Parliament](/source/Member_of_Parliament_(United_Kingdom)) for [Carmarthen](/source/Carmarthen_(UK_Parliament_constituency)) | years = [1929](/source/1929_United_Kingdom_general_election) – [1931](/source/1931_United_Kingdom_general_election) | before = [William Nathaniel Jones](/source/William_Nathaniel_Jones) | after = [Richard Thomas Evans](/source/Richard_Thomas_Evans) }} {{succession box | title = [Member of Parliament](/source/Member_of_Parliament_(United_Kingdom)) for [Carmarthen](/source/Carmarthen_(UK_Parliament_constituency)) | years = [1935](/source/1935_United_Kingdom_general_election) – [1941](/source/1941_Carmarthen_by-election) | before = [Richard Thomas Evans](/source/Richard_Thomas_Evans) | after = [Moelwyn Hughes](/source/Ronw_Moelwyn_Hughes) }} {{s-end}} {{Authority control}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Hopkin, Daniel}} Category:Welsh Labour MPs Category:UK MPs 1929–1931 Category:UK MPs 1935–1945 Category:Recipients of the Military Cross Category:People from the Vale of Glamorgan Category:1886 births Category:1951 deaths Category:Alumni of St Catharine's College, Cambridge Category:Royal Fusiliers officers Category:British Army personnel of World War I Category:Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for Carmarthenshire constituencies Category:Stipendiary magistrates (England and Wales) Category:Military personnel from the Vale of Glamorgan {{Wales-Labour-UK-MP-stub}} --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Daniel Hopkin](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Hopkin) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_Hopkin?action=history)). 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