Robert Thurston Hopkins | |
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| Born | 1884 Bury St Edmunds, England |
| Died | 1958 |
| Occupation(s) | Writer, ghost hunter |
| Years active | 1913–1956 |
Robert Thurston Hopkins (1884–1958) was a British writer and ghost hunter.
Hopkins was born in Bury St. Edmunds, Suffolk in 1884.[1]
Hopkins wrote biographical works on Rudyard Kipling and Oscar Wilde. He also wrote books on the English countryside.[2]
Hopkins was a ghost hunter known for his books on ghosts. He described his experiences in his book Adventures with Phantoms (1946). He claimed to have encountered the ghost of a hanged man in a woodland near Burwash on two occasions in the 1930s.[3]
His son was Godfrey Thurston Hopkins (1913–2014), known as Thurston, well-known Picture Post photojournalist.