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The Hope Baronetcy, of Craighall in the County of Fife, created in the Baronetage of Nova Scotia on 19 February 1628 for Thomas Hope, the Scottish advocate and advisor to Charles I. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The sixth Baronet assumed the additional surname of Bruce, a surname also held by the seventh Baronet.
The hereditary chief of Clan Hope is Sir Alexander Archibald Douglas Hope, OBE, 19th Baronet of Craighall, Chief of the Name and Arms of Hope, Chief of Clan Hope. The chiefly line of the Hope family survives through the Baronets of Craighall who are the senior line of the Clan Hope. [4]
His "Practical Observations Upon divers titles of the Law of Scotland", commonly called the "Minor Practicks", were published in 1726, by Alexander Bayne. [10] [11]In 1843 the Bannatyne Club published A Diary of the Public Correspondence of Sir Thomas Hope of Craighall, 1633–1645: From the Original, in the Library at Pinkie House, a collection Hope's official and private correspondence from ...
By his first wife, Hope had two sons and six daughters. [3] The elder son, Thomas, born on 11 February 1633, was grandfather of Sir John Hope Bruce, 7th baronet, with whom his line became extinct. The second son, Archibald Hope (1639–1706), was Lord of Session in 1689, and Lord of Justiciary in 1690. He took the title of Lord Rankeillor, and ...
His grandfather was Sir John Hope, Lord Craighall, 2nd Baronet Hope of Craighall. [1] The Hope baronetcy of Craighall in the county of Fife was created in the Baronetage of Nova Scotia on 19 February 1628 for Thomas Hope, a Scottish lawyer, and advisor to Charles I. [2] Like his ancestors, Hope studied the law.
The Hope family are a Scottish aristocratic family whose members include the Hope Baronets of Craighall, the Marquesses of Linlithgow, the Barons Rankeillour, the Barons Glendevon and the Earls of Annandale and Hartfell.
The Hope Baronetcy of Craighall in the County of Fife, was created in the Baronetage of Nova Scotia on 19 February 1628 for Thomas Hope, a Scottish lawyer and advisor to Charles I. [ 3 ] Sir John was first elected as a Conservative Member of Parliament for Midlothian in June 1845 upon the retirement of William Ramsay Ramsay , Esq. [ 2 ] He was ...
He succeeded his uncle, Sir Alexander Hope, 15th Baronet (1824–1918), on 7 March 1918 as the 16th Baronet Hope of Craighall. [1] Hope was an unsuccessful Unionist candidate for Midlothian at the December 1910 General Election, but was elected for the seat at a by-election in 1912. [5]