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Dewi Hopkins (01 March 1933) is a Welsh writer and lay theologian based in North Wales. He has lived in Aberdare, Aberystwyth, Pembrokeshire, Yorkshire West Riding (whose local authority granted him a university scholarship), London, Liverpool, Anglesey and Bangor.

Aberdare
Dewi Hopkins was born in Aberdare, Glamorgan on 1 March 1933. His father was Evan John Hopkins (c.1893 – 1957), civil servant and Baptist chapel organist. His mother was Mabel Hopkins, nee Jenkins (c.1895 – 1980) the daughter of a collier. The youngest of 5 children, he had 3 older sisters (Lynfa, Enid and Hazel) and an elder brother Alun.

Aberystwyth and St Brides, Pembrokeshire
The Hopkins family moved from Aberdare to Aberystwyth, Cardiganshire, in 1938 (as a civil servant, his father was liable to be transferred from time to time). From the age of 8, Hopkins was detained as an in-patient at the Kensington Hospital at St Brides in Pembrokeshire where he was hospitalised for 4 years with suspected TB hip (a diagnosis which, much later, was confirmed to have been incorrect).

North Wales
As a teenager the family once more relocated, this time to North Wales when the Civil Service transferred his father to a new post in Llanberis.

Education
Educated Ardwyn Grammar School, Aberystwyth; Ysgol Ramadeg, Brynrefail (Brynrefail Grammar School) now Ysgol Brynrefail; University College of North Wales (UCNW), Bangor (English and Philosophy) and London University Institute of Education (now UCL Institute of Education).

Marriage
Devotedly married to Angela Reece Hopkins (nee Jones) for nearly 63 years whom he had met while a student at UCNW, and who was herself training to be a teacher. Both secured teaching posts in Liverpool, where they lived for the first decade of their married life.

Teaching
Having studied at the London University Institute of Education (Quentin Blake was a contemporary) Hopkins’ profession was a secondary school English teacher until he took early retirement in 1985 at the age of 52.

Writing
Hopkins started to write verse while still a pupil at Brynrefail Grammar School. Some juvenilia published, to his later shame, in vanity press and ‘The Field (magazine)’. Some verse, much later, in ‘The Old Police Station, Liverpool’ and ‘Ore’ (‘samizdat’ publications). Reviews include several for ‘New Directions' (a Forward in Faith publication), ‘Home’ (later ‘Home Quarterly’), ‘Theologia Cambrensis’ and reviews and poems in the Prayer Book Society’s regular ‘Faith and Worship’ publication. His ‘Letters to Laura’ was serialised in the Catholic Chronicle under the editorship of Joanna Bogle. Hopkins has published a handful of short stories, a number of booklets of verse and literary criticism since taking early retirement from teaching in Holyhead and has devoted himself thereafter to composing poetry. Some of his recent poems have been set in Aberystwyth, but all – on varied themes and in many traditional forms and in them all, implicit, wife and family – based upon his orthodox Christianity and his love of nature.

Social Credit
A long-term Social Crediter, known to other Social Crediters. He inherited C. H. Douglas’ smoking jacket, which he later passed to Anthony Cooney as a more worthy recipient (where it is now he does not know).

Influencers
Most influenced by C. S. Lewis, G. K. Chesterton, Lady Julian of Norwich, Dorothy L. Sayers, Galsworthy, Chaucer, Shakespeare, George Herbert, John Donne, Henry Vaughan, Wordsworth, C. H. Douglas and a host of good friends including Antony Cooney, Charles Geoffrey Dobbs and Ian Robinson (author).

Poetry

 * Cartref 1: Anglo-Welsh Attitudes, 2002
 * Cartref 2: Hold Fast, 2003
 * Cartref 3: Humble Pie and other matters, 2004
 * Cartref 4: Young at Heart, 2004
 * Cartref 5: Rose of England, 2005
 * Cartref 6: Christmas Trees, 2004
 * Cartref 7: John Bull's Brother Island, 2006
 * Cartref 8: A Number of Things, 2006
 * Cartref 9: Songs of Sanity, 2007
 * Cartref 10: On Climate Change and other pieces, 2007
 * Cartref 11: On Tiling a Bathroom and other rambles, 2008
 * Cartref 12: If Winter Comes, 2008
 * Domus 1: Conversation at Christmas, 1996
 * Domus 2: Smith and the Bankers, 1997
 * Domus 3: The Birds of the Air, 1997
 * Domus 4: Long Weekend and other poems, 1998
 * Domus 5: A Family Man and other poems, 1998
 * Domus 6: Low Flight and other poems, 1999
 * Domus 7: A Time and Place, 1999
 * Domus 8: Where Credit is Due, 2000
 * Domus 9: Welsh Poppies, 2000
 * Domus 10: The Pirates of Pensant, 2001
 * Domus 11: A Friend in High Places, 2001
 * Domus 12: Tuning Up, 2001
 * Domus 13: Positively Last Appearance, 2011
 * Domus 14: Tree Cycle and other poems, 2013
 * Gild of St George Pamphlet: Micawber Lives, 1986
 * Gild of St George Pamphlet: Muthos Logos and Pax, 1987
 * Home Again 1: Hobby Horse, 2010
 * Lark Lane Poetry Books No. 1: The Months, 1982
 * Lark Lane Poetry Books No. 5: Sonnet Sequence, 1984
 * Lark Lane: Falkland Observations
 * Lark Lane: Faith and the Fairy Gold
 * Private Publication: Love Story, 1996
 * Private Publication: Happy Faces and other poems: Anna with Grandma, 2005
 * Private Publication: Laura's Rhymes, 1976 – 1996
 * Private Publication: Boys on the Bank and other poems, 2019

Essays

 * Faith & Worship 30: A Chronic State of Crisis, 1991
 * Faith & Worship 32: Paidagogos
 * Faith & Worship 33: The Guls Horn-booke
 * Faith & Worship 36: A Critical Comment on my Scrutiny
 * Faith & Worship 40: A Prayer for the Clergy and People
 * Faith & Worship 42: Te Deum Laudamus
 * Faith & Worship 43: La Vie Militaire
 * Faith & Worship 33: These Thy Servants
 * Faith & Worship 44: Secular Insight
 * Faith & Worship 45: The Key
 * Faith & Worship 45: Text & Pretext
 * Faith & Worship 48: DIX
 * Faith & Worship 49: DIX - Part 2
 * Faith & Worship 50: DIX - Part 3
 * Faith & Worship 51: Sanity & Scholarship
 * Faith & Worship 52: This Little Light of Mine
 * Faith & Worship 53: The Propers for 5th After Easter
 * Faith & Worship 55: Keeping an Eye on Old Nick
 * Home XXXV-1: Ritual Slaughter, 1981
 * Home XXXV-2: Ritual Slaughter, 1981
 * Home XXXV-10: Sanctions the Right to Opt Out, 1982
 * Home XXXV-11: Beyond Reason, 1982
 * Home XXXVI-1: A Finger in the Dyke, 1982
 * Home XXXVI-3: Christianity in School, 1982
 * Home XXXVI-6: Vouching for What?, 1983
 * Home XXXVI-8: Publish and be Damned?, 1983
 * Home XXXVII-8: Drawing the Line, 1983
 * Home XXXVII-3: "A Glasse of Blessings" - review of the Great Code, 1983
 * Home XXXVII-5: Off with the Old, 1984
 * Home XXXVII-8: No Way Forward?, 1984
 * Home XXXVII-11: The Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat, 1984
 * Home XXXVIII-1: Indebtedly Yours, 1984
 * Home XXXVIII-4: Joy to the World, 1985
 * Home XXXVIII-6: Education Notes, 1985
 * Home XXXVIII-10: Vocation or Utopia, 1985
 * Home XXXVIII-11: Government Without Responsibility, 1985
 * Home XXXIX-2: Education Topics, 1985
 * Home XXXIX-4: The Life of the People (Samizdat), 1986
 * Home XXXIX-6: A Lost Cause?, 1986
 * Home XXXIX-8: We, 1986
 * Home XXXIX-10: We (Part II), 1986
 * Home XXXIX-11: The Practice of Power, 1986
 * Home XXXIX-11: More of the Samizdat, 1986
 * Home XL-1 & 2: Locus Parentis, 1986
 * Home XL-1 & 2: What Gospel?, 1986
 * Home XL-3: Parent Power-Parent What?, 1986
 * Home XL-4 & 5: Let it Close!, 1987
 * Home XL-6: The Low-Down on the Run-Up, 1987
 * Home XL-6: Tomorrow's Consumers, 1987
 * Home XL-8: Uneasy About Christian Aid, 1987
 * Home XL-10 & 11: Towards the Sensitive Hippopotamus, 1987
 * Home XLI-1: Failure & Success, 1987
 * Home XLI-2: R. Bond Goes to Church, 1987
 * Home XLI-2: Good Fruit, 1987
 * Home XLI-4: King Solomon’s She, 1988
 * Home XLI-5: Women's Own, 1988
 * Home XLI-6: Much More to Us, 1988
 * Home XLI-7 & 8: The Milk of Human Kindness, 1988
 * Home XLI-9: A Dictatorial Word, 1988
 * Home XLI-9: I Grammere, That Ground is of Alle, 1988
 * Home XLI-10: Those New Examinations, 1988
 * Home XLI-11: On Maths for Daughters, 1988
 * Home Quarterly XLII-1: The Incorporation of Protest, 1989
 * Home Quarterly XLII-2: In a Good Cause (D. W. Rivers), 1989
 * Home Quarterly XLII-3: Neglected Graces, 1989
 * Home Quarterly XLII-3: Fret Not, 1989
 * Home Quarterly XLII-4: A Trinity of Trinities, 1989
 * Home Quarterly XLII-4: Mine Too, 1989
 * Home Quarterly XLIII-1: A Poet's Poet, 1990
 * Home Quarterly XLIII-2: The Pope on Organ Transplants, 1990
 * Home Quarterly XLIII-2: Waters of Strife, 1990
 * Home Quarterly XLIII-2: Who Monitors the Monitors?, 1990
 * Home Quarterly XLIII-3: Bilingual Jesus, 1991
 * Home Quarterly XLIII-4: Horizontal Gospel, 1991
 * Home Quarterly XLIV-1: A Sovereign Remedy?, 1991
 * Home Quarterly XLIV-2: Comment on the Medical Ethic, 1992
 * Home Quarterly XLIV-2: Again and Again and Again, 1992
 * Home Quarterly XLIV-3: Fluoridation in Anglesey, 1993
 * Home Quarterly XLIV-3: Death and Transplantation, 1993
 * Home Quarterly XLIV-4: Fluoridation and Matters Arising, 1995
 * Housewives Today XXXI-9: What is the Basic Principle?, 1978
 * Housewives Today XXXIV-2: Israeli Anti-Terrorist Defence Squads in Britain, 1980
 * Liverpool Newsletter 431: Was C. S. Lewis a Social Crediter?, 1997
 * Liverpool Newsletter 432: Text of Letter to local papers on the Welsh Assembly, 1997
 * Liverpool Newsletter 445: To Do To All Men As I Would They Should Do Unto Me, 1999
 * Liverpool Newsletter 446: Vitae Lampada, 2000
 * Liverpool Newsletter 448: The Leonine Legacy, 2000
 * Liverpool Newsletter 449: Welsh Poppies - review by Anthony Cooney, 2000
 * Liverpool Newsletter 449: Brief Encounter (G. K. Chesterton vs Shaw), 2000
 * Liverpool Newsletter 452: Were Voters Apathetic?, 2001
 * Liverpool Newsletter 458: The Literature of Social Credit and the Social Credit of Literature, 2003
 * Liverpool Newsletter 458: Little Boots and the Passing of Laura Norder, 2003
 * Liverpool Newsletter 462: Deus Inversus, 2004
 * Parson & Parish 125: Apocalypse, 1985
 * Parson & Parish 130: A Layman's Address to the Clergy, 1987
 * Prag (Mercurius Pragmaticus) 77: A Secondary Sovereignty,
 * Theologia Cambrensis 1: The Shadow of a Doubt (Zacchaeus)
 * Triumph of the Past: Pilgrim Through the Barren Land Part I, 1999
 * Triumph of the Past: Pilgrim Through the Barren Land Part II, 1999
 * Triumph of the Past: Will, Reason, and Desire (Donne), 2000
 * Triumph of the Past: Facing the Music: Chaucer's Parson, 2000
 * Triumph of the Past: Faith and Works: Five Poems from The Temple, 2001
 * Triumph of the Past: Three Shakespeare Sonnets, 2001
 * Triumph of the Past: Letter to the Editor, 2002
 * Triumph of the Past: The Parliament of Fowls, 2002
 * Triumph of the Past: Young at Heart: Three Poems, 2002
 * Triumph of the Past: The Dream of the Rood, 2003
 * Triumph of the Past: Moving Images, 2003
 * Triumph of the Past: Is D. I. Y. S. C.?, 2004
 * Triumph of the Past: III Thessalonians?, 2005
 * Triumph of the Past: Relatively Speaking, 2005
 * Words In Edgeways: Census and Consensus, 2003

Letters

 * Faith & Worship 21: Letter on love and on Prayer Book erosion, 1986
 * Faith & Worship 22: Ripens in support, 1987
 * Faith & Worship 24: Marooned in the Sixties (Faith in the City and Social Credit), 1988
 * Faith & Worship 26: Letter on Social Credit, 1989
 * Faith & Worship 31: Letter on the Book of Common Prayer
 * Faith & Worship 32: What is a….
 * Faith & Worship 35: The Introduction of Morning Prayer
 * Faith & Worship 37: On "Compromise Liturgy"
 * Faith & Worship 40: On Noli Me Tangere
 * Faith & Worship 41: Letter with comments
 * Faith & Worship 45: On Wordsworth and on Pickstock
 * Faith & Worship 46: An Honourable Estate
 * Faith & Worship 47: On Bunyan's Pilgrim and King David
 * Faith & Worship 48: Passe to a Critic
 * On Target 25-4: Letter to the Editor, 2003
 * The Rock (Canada) 20-2: A Reader Comments
 * Theologia Cambrensis 1-2: Letter against the Ordination of Women
 * Theologia Cambrensis 1-3: Short Letter
 * Theologia Cambrensis 2-1: Your Rights & Just Deserving - Cranmer
 * Theologia Cambrensis 2-3: Letter on Milton's God and on C. S. Lewis
 * Theologia Cambrensis 3-1: God's Better Bounty, Grace
 * Theologia Cambrensis 4-1: Letter on Interfaith
 * Theologia Cambrensis 5-2: Reply to Rev. Andrew Morton on "gender" etc.
 * Theologia Cambrensis 6-1: Poles Apart: 1. Literal Belief in the Devil & Hell and 2. Society
 * Theologia Cambrensis 6-1: Letter on Money and the European Union
 * Theologia Cambrensis 6-2: Letter on the Ordination of Women Priests
 * Theologia Cambrensis 9-1: Letter on Transplant Ethics
 * Theologia Cambrensis 9-3: WPS

Reviews

 * Faith & Worship 36: Fine Words Butter No Parsnips - review of Pelham
 * Faith & Worship 38: Like Greyhound in the Slips - English Prayer Book review
 * Faith & Worship 44: C. S. Lewis by Philip Vander Elst
 * Faith & Worship 48: Review of a Stranger in Jerusalem
 * Faith & Worship 57: Knowing the Unknowable
 * Home XXXVII-4: Review of the Biography of John Berryman, 1984
 * Home XXXVII-8: Untitled, 1984
 * Home XXXVII-11: The Wheel of Fire - Anthony Cooney, 1984
 * Home XXXVIII-2: State Management, 1984
 * Home XXXVIII-3: The Business of Heaven, 1984
 * Home XXXVIII-3: River of Dreams, 1984
 * Home XXXVIII-4: A Subtle Kind of Guidance, 1985
 * Home XXXVIII-8: A Perfect Pattern of Womanhood, 1985
 * Home XXXVIII-9: A Personal Monarch, 1985
 * Home XL-3: The Poetry of Her Life, 1986
 * Home XL-7: "His Lance in Rest - review of G. K. Chesterton, 1987
 * Home XLI-1: Before the End, 1987
 * Home XLI-2: Buried with Princes, 1987
 * Home XLI-11: A State Beyond Madding Faction Swayed, 1988
 * Home XLI-11: The Apple Tree, 1988
 * Home Quarterly XLII-1: Review of Social Credit-Obelisks, 1989
 * Liverpool Newsletter 443: Due Faithful Harp - Anthony Cooney, 1999
 * Liverpool Newsletter 443: May Fortune's Star Shine. Review on Anthony Cooney's St George, 1999
 * Liverpool Newsletter 452: Review of Book on Fairy Tales, 2001
 * Liverpool Newsletter: Accepting the Unacceptable, 2002
 * New Directions: A High Anglican Identity. Selected Writings of the Revd Dr Anthony Christian: A Non-Conforming Anglican Priest - Edited by Linda Christian, 2015
 * New Directions: The Tiara and the Test Tube. The Popes and Science from the Medieval Period to the Present - Paul Haffner, 2015
 * New Directions: House Divided. Christianity in England 1526 - 1829 - Antonia Southern, 2014
 * New Directions: Rethinking Fundamental Theology - Gerald O'Collins, 2014
 * New Directions: Journey to Mount Athos - Spyridon Bailey, 2014
 * New Directions: I Believe in Eternal Life - Carlo Maria Martini, 2014
 * New Directions: Faith and Unbelief - Stephen Bullivant, 2014
 * New Directions: Using the Book of Common Prayer. A Simple Guide - Paul Thomas, 2013
 * New Directions: No Oil in the Lamp. Fuel, Faith and the Energy Crisis - Andy Mellen and Neil Hollow, 2012
 * New Directions: Wealth Without Cost Vol 1: White Alchemy in Economics Vol 2: White Alchemy in Religion and the Arts - Barry Bracewell Milnes, 2012
 * New Directions: Dom Augustine Baker 1575 - 1641 - Edited by Geoffrey Scott, 2012
 * New Directions: Lincolnshire Cameos. A Christian Appreciation - Barry Shucksmith, 2012
 * New Directions: Augustine of Hippo. His Philosophy in a Historical and Contemporary Perspective - Virgilo Pacioni OSA, 2011
 * New Directions: The Elusive Father Brown. The life of Mgr John O'Connor - Julia Smith, 2011
 * New Directions: Vita Communis. The Common Life of the Secular Clergy - Jerome Bertram, 2010
 * New Directions: John Henry Newman. A Very English Saint - Peter M. Chisnall, 2010
 * New Directions: Christianity and Jerusalem. Studies in Modern Theology and Politics in the Holy Land - Anthony O'Mahony et al, 2010
 * Parson & Parish 130: More Particularly, 1987

Collaborations

 * Home XXXVIII-2: "Fluoridation Attitudes" with Councillor R. I. Owen, 1984
 * Home XXXIX-7: "Letters to the Editor" by R. Bond and A. R. H, 1986
 * Home XL-3: "Sounding Brass" with Angela Hopkins, 1986

=References=
 * D. Hopkins, personal communication, March 2019.
 * Editor's Essay (1987). "Unity" by Dewi Hopkins. Parson & Parish 130.
 * Cooney, A. (1984). Faith & the Fairly Gold. Home XXXVII-8.
 * Cooney, A. (1998). Review of "A Family Man". Liverpool Newsletter 441.
 * Cooney, A. (1999). Review of "Low Flight and other poems". Liverpool Newsletter 442.
 * Fleetwood, G. (1999). Review of "A Time and Place". Liverpool Newsletter 444.
 * Cooney, A. (2000). Where Credit is Due. Liverpool Newsletter 447.
 * Cooney, A. (2001). Review of "Pirates of Pensant". Liverpool Newsletter 451.
 * Cooney, A. (2001). Review of "Tuning Up". Liverpool Newsletter 453.
 * Cooney, A. (2002). Review of "Anglo Welsh Attitudes". Liverpool Newsletter 457.
 * Lane, M. S. (2002). The Big Little World of Dewi Hopkins. Triumph of the Past (USA).

=External links=
 * http://www.edgewaysbooks.com/6th/Census.pdf
 * https://www.pbs.org.uk/downloads/faithworship2002.pdf
 * https://www.pbs.org.uk/downloads/faith-and-worship-michailmas-2005.pdf
 * http://trushare.com/ROCKWEB/RO%20200206%20Full%20Edition.htm#At%20General%20Confession
 * https://forwardinfaith.com/uploads/NDMay2015.pdf
 * https://www.amazon.com/Books-Dewi-Hopkins/s?i=stripbooks&rh=p_27%3ADewi+Hopkins