HOPE, Sir Henry (eld. child of Charles Hope, captain R.N., d. 10 Sep. 1808). b. 1787; entered navy 2 April 1798, captain 24 May 1808, captain of the Endymion May 1813, captured the American frigate President 15 Jany. 1815; C.B. 4 June 1815, K.C.B. 5 July 1855; A.D.C. to the sovereign 1831–46; admiral 20 Jany. 1858. d. Holly hill, Hants. 23 Sep. 1863.
HOPE, Henry Thomas (eldest bro. of Alexander J. B. Hope 1820–87). b. 1808; ed. at Trin. coll. Cam., M.A. 1829; M.P. East Looe 1830–2; M.P. Gloucester 1833–41 and 1847–52; a great patron of architectural art; erected a residence 116 Piccadilly, now known as the Junior Athenæum club; sold Trenant park, Cornwall and purchased Castle Blaney, Ireland; possessed a collection of marble statues, vases and Italian and Dutch pictures. d. 116 Piccadilly, London 4 Dec. 1862, personalty sworn under £300,000, 17 Jany. 1863. Waagen’s Treasures of Art, ii, 112–24 (1854); I.L.N. xxxii, 352 (1858).
HOPE, Sir James (only son of Sir George Hope, K.C.B. 1767–1818). b. 3 March 1808; entered royal naval college 1 Aug. 1820; captain 28 June 1838; commander in chief East Indies 25 Jany. 1859 to 8 Feb. 1862, in North America and West Indies 7 Jany. 1864 to 10 Jany. 1867, and at Portsmouth 25 Feb. 1869 to 1 March 1872; admiral 21 Jany. 1870, retired March 1878, admiral of the fleet 15 June 1879; principal naval A.D.C. to the Queen 8 Feb. 1873; C.B. 3 April 1846, K.C.B. 9 Nov. 1860, G.C.B. 28 March 1865; grand cross of legion of honour 1861. d. Carriden house, Bowness, Linlithgowshire 9 June 1881, portrait by Sydney Hodges in painted hall at Greenwich. D. C. Boulger’s History of China, vol. iii, passim (1884).
HOPE, James. b. 28 May 1803; writer to the signet 1828; deputy keeper of the signet 1828 to death. d. Avenel, Edinburgh 14 Feb. 1882. Law Times, lxxii, 305 (1882).
HOPE, Sir James Archibald (son of lieut.-col. Erskine Hope). b. 1785; ensign 26 foot 12 Jany. 1800, captain 1805–14; captain 3 foot guards 25 July 1814, major 10 Jany. 1837 to 1 Nov. 1839, when placed on h.p.; M.G. on the staff in Lower Canada 1841–7; colonel 9 foot 18 Feb. 1848 to death; general 12 June 1859; K.C.B. 2 Jany. 1815, G.C.B. 28 June 1861. d. Balgowan house, Cheltenham 30 Dec. 1871.
HOPE, Sir John, 11 Baronet. b. Pinkie house, Midlothian 13 April 1781; succeeded 26 June 1801; M.P. for Midlothian 1845 to death. d. 104 Gloucester terrace, Hyde park, London 5 June 1853. bur. Inveresk churchyard 11 June.
HOPE, John (eld. son of Charles Hope of Granton 1763–1851). b. Edinburgh 26 May 1794; admitted advocate 23 Nov. 1816; solicitor general for Scotland Nov. 1822 to 1830; dean of faculty of advocates 17 Dec. 1830 to 1841; lord justice clerk 1841 to death; P.C. 17 April 1844; author of A letter to Francis Jeffery, Esq., editor of the Edinburgh Review, By an Anti-Reformist 1811 and two other letters. d. 20 Moray place, Edinburgh 15 June 1858, bur. at Ormiston near Tranent; portraits in national gallery of Scotland, in the Parliament house and in Scottish national portrait gallery. Crombie’s Modern Athenians (1882) 73–4, portrait.
HOPE, Sackett. Entered navy 2 Nov. 1814; present at bombardment of St. Jean d’Acre 1840; captain 4 Nov. 1840; V.A. on half pay 2 April 1866; granted pension for wounds 7 Nov. 1843. d. 9 Widcomb crescent, Bath 25 May 1868.
HOPE, William Williams (youngest child of John Williams Hope of Amsterdam, banker 1757–1813). b. 1802; reassumed name of Williams before that of Hope by r.l. 14 July 1826; purchased Rushton hall near Kettering for £140,000 in 1828, sold it for £165,000 Sep. 1854; sheriff of Northamptonshire 1832; lived latterly in Paris, built a large house at 131 Rue St. Dominique, Faubourg St. Germain, played a prominent part in Parisian society, noted for his eccentricity and his collection of diamonds; found dead in his bed at 131 Rue St. Dominique, Paris 21 Jany. 1855. Gronow’s Last Recollections (1866) 129–33; Boase’s Collect. Cornub. (1890) 1262–4.
HOPE-JOHNSTONE, John James (1 son of Sir William Hope-Johnstone, G.C.B. 1766–1831). b. 29 Nov. 1796; M.P. for co. Dumfries 1830–47, and 1857–65; keeper of Lockmaben; claimed dormant earldom of Annandale. d. Raehills, Dumfriesshire 11 July 1876.