In 1936, when the new Golf Club house was completed at Kiambu, in memory of the previous building he donated the "Phoenix Cup". It was destroyed by fire in 1935.

KAD 1922 - Asst. District and Resident Commissioner,

Kiambu Scrapbook - DC Kiambu in 1935. Presented a Cup, known as the Phoenix Cup, to commemorate the rising of the new club from the ashes of the old  [burnt down], the Cup being made out of the molten silver shillings from the fruit machine. Golfers compete for this Cup every Christmas Eve.

Web - British Perspectives on Aulihan Somali Unrest in the East Africa Protectorate, 1915-18 by George L. Simpson Jr. - Note 7 mentions J. Gerald Hopkins as Bulesa ADC.

EA Stud Book 1954 - Brood Mares - Thoroughbred - Breeders - G. Hopkins ?

Dominion - District Officer - 1930

Witchmen - Meru - In January 1928 Lamb was joined at Meru District headquarters by J. Gerald H. Hopkins, appointed assistant district commissioner. Unlike many colonial officers of that era Hopkins had developed an intense interest in traditional African life, notably its supernatural aspects. During prior postings he had actively investigated what he referred to as "witch doctoring", generally by talking to "the cranky old fellows themselves" in regions where supernatural practitioners were not perceived as sources of resistance to British rule. ……… [more]

Chandler - Something of a loose cannon, Hopkins was very much into elephant hunting for a profit. The ivory of elephant that he shot on control in his own district belonged to the government, so he frequently took out licences (signing them himself) to hunt elephant in neighbouring districts. The need to get a dead elephant on the profitable side of the boundary line caused him once to move a guidepost identifying the border between his own district, Meru, and the neighbouring district of Samburu. In order for him to own the ivory it was necessary that the carcase be found in Samburu territory, and it was easier to move the marker than the elephant. This one act led to 30 years of dispute over where the proper boundary lay.

Gazette 4/4/1917 - Arriived on 1st Appointment - Asst. Dist. Commissioner - 25/3/1917 - G. Hopkins

Gazette 6 Dec 1938 Kiambu Voters Roll

Gazette 27 July 1973 probate

Charles Chenevix Trench, Men Who Ruled Kenya, 1993  He was a small, sharp-eyed man who looked as though he was planning to sell you something. His colleagues thought him too clever by half. He was the only DC to educate his children entirely from the profits of elephant hunting. He hunted both inside his own district on control and outside it on licence. Tusks of elephants shot on control had to be handed into the government; those shot on license belonged to the shooter. As DC Meru Hopkins shot a huge tusker on control within yards of a cairn marking the district boundary, so he wrote himself a cheque, issued himself with a license and moved the cairn, thus starting a dispute between Meru and Isiolo districts which was still unresolved 30 years later. He aimed to produce in Meru a polo team which could compete with the settlers' teams in Nanyuki. Hearing that there was in Embu a young DO called Colchester, who rode at only 11 stone and had captained Cambridge at polo, he shanghaied him to Meru. Actually Colchester's blue was for water polo. One of Hopkins ploys was the manufacture of copper ashtrays with a silver Maria Teresa dollar inset, which he sold to his friends. In the NFD the water on safari was carried in 10 gallon copper baramils, which eventually wore out and had to be returned to store in Nairobi. Hopkins, counting on nobody in the audit department knowing what a baramil was, ingeniously wrote one off as eaten by a lion. It sufficed for many ashtrays. Despite his idiosyncrasies, he was a good DC of the practical sort, not given to anthropological theorizing, but sound on roads, buildings, taxation, law and order and respected by the tribesmen who liked a 'character'. As PC Rift Valley Province he got on well with settlers who on his retirement elected him to the Legislative Council where he generally took a strong anti-government line