Owen Hopton [SEP] date of death
Owen Hopton
Sir Owen Hopton (c. 1519 – 1595) was an English administrator and politician.
He was born the son of Sir Arthur Hopton of Cockfield Hall, Yoxford and knighted in 1561.
He was the Lieutenant of the Tower of London from 1570 to 1590. He was therefore in charge of the most significant prisoners of the age, supervised all torture and controlled the armoury.
He was Member of Parliament, for Suffolk (1559 and 1571), for Middlesex (1572 and 1584) and for
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On 27 January 1568, at the age of twenty-seven, after suffering years of imprisonment, house arrest, and separation from her husband and two young sons, Katherine Grey died at Cockfield Hall, the house of Sir Owen Hopton in Yoxford, Suffolk. According to De Lisle, it is possible that she had starved herself to death. With Katherine Grey's death, Mary was brought to relative prominence as the next heir to Elizabeth under the