Leonard Hopkins

Leonard Anver Hopkins JP (22 October 1891 – 11 December 1950) was a bootmaker and politician in the State of South Australia.

L. A. Hopkins may have been born in Port Adelaide to James Robert Hopkins (died 1901) and his wife Charlotte, née Booth (died 1933). From around 1905 he was working as a shoe repairer for Thomas Morgan of Ellen Street, Port Pirie, then opened his own business on The Esplanade, Solomontown, Port Pirie in 1913.[1]

He was elected to the Port Pirie council in 1915, their youngest councillor to that time,[2] for the Solomontown ward. He contested the mayoralty in 1919 on the resignation of A. H. Forgan, as the Labor candidate, but was defeated by Dr. Matthew Edward Goode, son of Benjamin Powell Goode supported by the Liberal Party.[3] He was appointed Justice of the Peace in 1924.

He represented the South Australian House of Assembly multi-member seat of Barossa from April 1924 to March 1927 and from April 1930 to April 1933 for the Australian Labor Party. One newspaper insinuated he was attracted to the salary of ₤200 per annum.[4] He joined the Parliamentary Labor Party in 1931.[5]

The newspapers of the day, including the Port Pirie Recorder, did not publish an obituary for him.

It is not known whether he was related to George Feltham Hopkins (1856–1897), MHA for Port Adelaide 1887 to 1893.

Family

He married Dorothy Edna "Dorrie" Cook ( –1966) on 28 December 1915; their children included Dot, Ray, Jean and Allan Edward. They lived at 68 Lipsett Terrace, Brooklyn Park.

References

  1. ↑ "Events Requiring Attention". Port Pirie Recorder And North Western Mail (1596). South Australia. 5 April 1913. p. 1. Retrieved 5 July 2016 – via National Library of Australia.
  2. ↑ "Personal". Port Pirie Recorder And North Western Mail (265). South Australia. 23 February 1915. p. 2. Retrieved 5 July 2016 – via National Library of Australia.
  3. ↑ "Cr. Goode Mayor". Recorder (Port Pirie, SA : 1919 - 1954). Port Pirie, SA: National Library of Australia. 5 May 1919. p. 1. Retrieved 11 September 2015.
  4. ↑ "Town Talk and Topics". Port Adelaide News and Lefevre's Peninsula Advertiser (SA : 1883 - 1897). SA: National Library of Australia. 7 April 1893. p. 1. Retrieved 12 September 2015.
  5. ↑ Leonard Hopkins: SA Parliament


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