1919 June Quarter birth registration-
Name: Hopkins, Sydney G.---Mother’s Maiden Name: Bowers
District: Poplar (Volume & Page: 1c & 479)
1970 June Quarter marriage registration-
Names: HOPKINS, Sydney G.---and---BENSON, Jill C.
District: Ashford (Vol & Page: 5f & 59)
Son of Sydney Thomas and Annie E. (née Bowers) Hopkins; brother of William Stanley ('Stan') Hopkins; husband of Jill [‘Joya’] (née Crawford-Benson) Hopkins.
-Born and growing up in the East End of London, Hopkins won a scholarship to a local grammar school, Cooper's Company College, in Upminster in the London Borough of Havering. At the age of 15 he began working for The Russian Oil and Petroleum Company, hoping it would lead to a career of that of a research chemist.
-After a fall off a cliff, Hopkins suffered chronic insomnia; eventually he was referred for treatment to the now-defunct Finchden Manor in Tenterden, Kent, which was a therapeutic community run by George Lyward O.B.E. The therapy was successful and Hopkins later joined the Finchden Manor’s staff. (Finchden Manor is described in the book "Mr. Lyward's Answer", written by Michael Burn.)
-In 1974 the well-received book “Mister God, This Is Anna” was written by Sydney Hopkins under the pseudonym ‘Fynn’. The book described the adventures of Anna, a mischievous-yet-wise-for-her-years four-year-old runaway whom nineteen-year-old ‘Fynn’ encounters. Fynn takes Anna home to his mother who takes her in, although Fynn is the one who becomes Anna's main caretaker and closest friend. Fynn recounts his time spent with Anna, giving a very personal account of her outpourings on life, mathematics, science and her mentor, ‘Mister God’.
Sequels of “Mister God, This Is Anna” are “Anna's Book” (1986), and “Anna and the Black Knight” (1990) [it is a quote from this last book that is inscribed on Sydney George ‘Fynn’ Hopkins grave monument]. “Mister God, This Is Anna” was reissued by HarperCollins in 2005 featuring a Foreword by Rowan Williams, Archbishop of Canterbury.
According to Anna--“There ain’t no different churches in heaven ‘cos everybody in heaven is inside themselves.”
Name: Hopkins, Sydney G.---Mother’s Maiden Name: Bowers
District: Poplar (Volume & Page: 1c & 479)
1970 June Quarter marriage registration-
Names: HOPKINS, Sydney G.---and---BENSON, Jill C.
District: Ashford (Vol & Page: 5f & 59)
Son of Sydney Thomas and Annie E. (née Bowers) Hopkins; brother of William Stanley ('Stan') Hopkins; husband of Jill [‘Joya’] (née Crawford-Benson) Hopkins.
-Born and growing up in the East End of London, Hopkins won a scholarship to a local grammar school, Cooper's Company College, in Upminster in the London Borough of Havering. At the age of 15 he began working for The Russian Oil and Petroleum Company, hoping it would lead to a career of that of a research chemist.
-After a fall off a cliff, Hopkins suffered chronic insomnia; eventually he was referred for treatment to the now-defunct Finchden Manor in Tenterden, Kent, which was a therapeutic community run by George Lyward O.B.E. The therapy was successful and Hopkins later joined the Finchden Manor’s staff. (Finchden Manor is described in the book "Mr. Lyward's Answer", written by Michael Burn.)
-In 1974 the well-received book “Mister God, This Is Anna” was written by Sydney Hopkins under the pseudonym ‘Fynn’. The book described the adventures of Anna, a mischievous-yet-wise-for-her-years four-year-old runaway whom nineteen-year-old ‘Fynn’ encounters. Fynn takes Anna home to his mother who takes her in, although Fynn is the one who becomes Anna's main caretaker and closest friend. Fynn recounts his time spent with Anna, giving a very personal account of her outpourings on life, mathematics, science and her mentor, ‘Mister God’.
Sequels of “Mister God, This Is Anna” are “Anna's Book” (1986), and “Anna and the Black Knight” (1990) [it is a quote from this last book that is inscribed on Sydney George ‘Fynn’ Hopkins grave monument]. “Mister God, This Is Anna” was reissued by HarperCollins in 2005 featuring a Foreword by Rowan Williams, Archbishop of Canterbury.
According to Anna--“There ain’t no different churches in heaven ‘cos everybody in heaven is inside themselves.”
1919 June Quarter birth registration-
Name: Hopkins, Sydney G.---Mother’s Maiden Name: Bowers
District: Poplar (Volume & Page: 1c & 479)
1970 June Quarter marriage registration-
Names: HOPKINS, Sydney G.---and---BENSON, Jill C.
District: Ashford (Vol & Page: 5f & 59)
Son of Sydney Thomas and Annie E. (née Bowers) Hopkins; brother of William Stanley ('Stan') Hopkins; husband of Jill [‘Joya’] (née Crawford-Benson) Hopkins.
-Born and growing up in the East End of London, Hopkins won a scholarship to a local grammar school, Cooper's Company College, in Upminster in the London Borough of Havering. At the age of 15 he began working for The Russian Oil and Petroleum Company, hoping it would lead to a career of that of a research chemist.
-After a fall off a cliff, Hopkins suffered chronic insomnia; eventually he was referred for treatment to the now-defunct Finchden Manor in Tenterden, Kent, which was a therapeutic community run by George Lyward O.B.E. The therapy was successful and Hopkins later joined the Finchden Manor’s staff. (Finchden Manor is described in the book "Mr. Lyward's Answer", written by Michael Burn.)
-In 1974 the well-received book “Mister God, This Is Anna” was written by Sydney Hopkins under the pseudonym ‘Fynn’. The book described the adventures of Anna, a mischievous-yet-wise-for-her-years four-year-old runaway whom nineteen-year-old ‘Fynn’ encounters. Fynn takes Anna home to his mother who takes her in, although Fynn is the one who becomes Anna's main caretaker and closest friend. Fynn recounts his time spent with Anna, giving a very personal account of her outpourings on life, mathematics, science and her mentor, ‘Mister God’.
Sequels of “Mister God, This Is Anna” are “Anna's Book” (1986), and “Anna and the Black Knight” (1990) [it is a quote from this last book that is inscribed on Sydney George ‘Fynn’ Hopkins grave monument]. “Mister God, This Is Anna” was reissued by HarperCollins in 2005 featuring a Foreword by Rowan Williams, Archbishop of Canterbury.
According to Anna--“There ain’t no different churches in heaven ‘cos everybody in heaven is inside themselves.”
Name: Hopkins, Sydney G.---Mother’s Maiden Name: Bowers
District: Poplar (Volume & Page: 1c & 479)
1970 June Quarter marriage registration-
Names: HOPKINS, Sydney G.---and---BENSON, Jill C.
District: Ashford (Vol & Page: 5f & 59)
Son of Sydney Thomas and Annie E. (née Bowers) Hopkins; brother of William Stanley ('Stan') Hopkins; husband of Jill [‘Joya’] (née Crawford-Benson) Hopkins.
-Born and growing up in the East End of London, Hopkins won a scholarship to a local grammar school, Cooper's Company College, in Upminster in the London Borough of Havering. At the age of 15 he began working for The Russian Oil and Petroleum Company, hoping it would lead to a career of that of a research chemist.
-After a fall off a cliff, Hopkins suffered chronic insomnia; eventually he was referred for treatment to the now-defunct Finchden Manor in Tenterden, Kent, which was a therapeutic community run by George Lyward O.B.E. The therapy was successful and Hopkins later joined the Finchden Manor’s staff. (Finchden Manor is described in the book "Mr. Lyward's Answer", written by Michael Burn.)
-In 1974 the well-received book “Mister God, This Is Anna” was written by Sydney Hopkins under the pseudonym ‘Fynn’. The book described the adventures of Anna, a mischievous-yet-wise-for-her-years four-year-old runaway whom nineteen-year-old ‘Fynn’ encounters. Fynn takes Anna home to his mother who takes her in, although Fynn is the one who becomes Anna's main caretaker and closest friend. Fynn recounts his time spent with Anna, giving a very personal account of her outpourings on life, mathematics, science and her mentor, ‘Mister God’.
Sequels of “Mister God, This Is Anna” are “Anna's Book” (1986), and “Anna and the Black Knight” (1990) [it is a quote from this last book that is inscribed on Sydney George ‘Fynn’ Hopkins grave monument]. “Mister God, This Is Anna” was reissued by HarperCollins in 2005 featuring a Foreword by Rowan Williams, Archbishop of Canterbury.
According to Anna--“There ain’t no different churches in heaven ‘cos everybody in heaven is inside themselves.”
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SYDNEY GEORGE HOPKINS
BORN 26TH MARCH 1919
DIED 3RD JULY 1999
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