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About Francis Hopwood, 1st Baron Southborough
Francis John Stephens Hopwood, 1st Baron Southborough, was a British civil servant and solicitor. Over the course of his official career, Hopwood served as permanent secretary to the Board of Trade and the Colonial Office, a member of the Board of Admiralty, and secretary to the Irish Convention. In addition, he served on numerous commissions and was sent by the British government to Scandinavia in 1917 to secretly investigate rumours of Austrian peace proposals. Highly regarded as a civil servant, Hopwood was described by his obituarist as "a civil servant all the time, and a very correct one, whose personal views and contributions to discussions or action were never trumpeted in public".
Everything about Francis Hopwood, 1st Baron Southborough →- Occupation
- solicitor, politician, beamter
- Position held
- Member of the Privy Council of the United Kingdom, member of the House of Lords
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom
- Born
- December 2, 1860
- Died
- January 17, 1947