Background
HOPWOOD, Francis John Stephens was born in 1860. Son of late James T. Hopwood, Barrister-at-Law, Lincoln's Inn, and Anne Ellen, daughter of John Stone, D.L., Justice of the Peace, of the Prebendal, Thame Oxfordshire., and Long Crendon, Buckinghamshire.
Career
Admitted a Solicitor, 1882. Assistant Law Clerk to Board of Trade. 1885; Assistant Solicitor, 1888.
Private Secretary to the President of the Board of Trade, 1892. Secretary to the Railway Department, 1893. Employed upon several occasions on missions to Canada, Newfoundland, and the United States.
Founded the Hospital and Medical Service for the Canadian and Newfoundland fishermen. A British Delegate to the International Railway Congress in London, 1895, and in Paris, 1900. Was member of Royal Commission on London Traffic, and member of Royal Commission on Shipping Rings, the Royal Commission on Electoral Reform, the Royal Commission on Canals'.
Formerly Secretary to the Chairman of the Select Committee on the Jameson Raid, 995 and a member of the Commission to South Africa to' advise on the Constitution for the Transvaal and Orange River Colonies. On Staff of Prince of Wales during visit to Canada, 1908. Vice-Chairman of the Development Commission, 1910.
Formerly Registrar of the Order of St. Michael and St. George. C. M.G. 1893; Under Secretary of State for the Colonies since 1907; Permanent Secretary Board of Trade, 1901-1907; Secretary of the Order of St. Michael and St. George since 1909.