Ralph Hopton, Baron Hopton

Ralph Hopton, Baron Hopton (born 1596, Witham, Somerset, Eng.—died September 1652, Bruges) was a Royalist commander in the first phase of the English Civil Wars between King Charles I and Parliament. One of the most talented of the king’s generals, he secured southwestern England for the Royalist cause. After studying at Oxford University and the Middle Temple, London, Hopton served in the army of the Elector Palatine in the early campaigns of the Thirty Years’...