(Ezekiel), bishop of Derry in Ireland, was the son of an obscure clergyman in Devonshire; and was for some time a chorister of Magdalen college, Oxford, and usher of the adjoining school. He was afterwards a Presbyterian minister, and was extolled as an excellent preacher. John, lord Roberts, happening to hear him preach, was so pleased with his person, his discourse, and his manner, that he retained him as his chaplain when he was sent in quality of lord lieutenant into Ireland, and preferred him to the deanery of Raphoe; and on his being recalled, so strongly recommended him to his successor, that he was soon preferred to the bishopric at Raphoe, whence he was translated to Derry. During the war under the earl of Tyrconnel at the revolution, he withdrew into England; and was chosen minister of St Mary, Aldermanbury, in London, where he died in 1690. His sermons, his exposition of the ten commandments, and that of the Lord's prayer, are much esteemed. His works were printed together in 1710, folio. He was the father of Mr Charles Hopkins, several of whose poetical pieces are in Dryden's Miscellanies.