On May 21 1952 during the British Malayan headhunting scandal, the Labour Party MP Michael Stewart asked Hopkinson in the House of Commons if the British government intended to punish British soldiers caught posing with decapitated human heads in images taken during the Malayan Emergency and leaked by the Daily Worker. Hopkinson confirmed that none of the British soldiers would be punished, claiming that said soldiers had never explicitly been forbidden from mutilating corpses.[1]
Lord Colyton married Alice Labouisse Eno, daughter of Henry Lane Eno, a banker and Princeton University professor, in 1927. They had one son and one daughter. After his first wife's death in 1953 he married, secondly, Barbara Estella Barb, who had previously been married to cartoonist Charles Addams, in 1956. Lord Colyton died in January 1996, aged 94, and was succeeded in the barony by his grandson Alisdair Hopkinson, his eldest son Hon. Nicholas Henry Eno Hopkinson having predeceased him.
Arms
Coat of arms of Henry Hopkinson, 1st Baron Colyton
Crest
A demi-lion Sable between two mullets of six points Or.
Escutcheon
Azure on a chevron Argent between three mullets of six points Or as many mascles Gules a bordure engrailed Or.
Supporters
On either side an angel Proper habited Azure winged Or the dexter holding in the exterior hand a Saxon crown and the sinister likewise holding a trumpet Gold.