Sir Archibald Hope, Lord Rankeillor (1639 – 10 October 1706) was a

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, the second son of John Hope, Lord Craighall, the grandfather of the

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John Hope and the great-grandfather of the

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Thomas Charles Hope Thomas Charles Hope (21 July 1766 – 13 June 1844) was a British physician, chemist and lecturer. He proved the existence of the element strontium, and gave his name to Hope's Experiment, which shows that water reaches its maximum density at ...

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Early life

Archibald Hope was the second son of Sir John Hope, Lord Craighall, 2nd Baronet Hope of Craighall and Margaret Murray, daughter of Sir Archibald Murray of Blackbarony. He was the grandson of Sir Thomas Hope, 1st Baronet Hope of Craighall.

Legal career

Like his father and grandfather before him, Archibald Hope pursued a law career. He was admitted an advocate on 30 June 1664 and readmitted on 8 January 1676. He became a

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, assuming the name of Lord Rankeillor, on 1 November 1689, followed by

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on 27 January 1690. A knighthood by King William followed shortly thereafter.

Family

Sir Archibald Hope had the following children: *John, died unmarried, predeceasing his father *

Sir Thomas Hope, 8th Baronet Sir Thomas Hope, 8th Baronet (1681–17 April 1771) was a Scottish aristocrat, lawyer and agricultural reformer. Life Hope was born in 1681 at Rankeillor House near Monimail in Fife. He was the son of Margaret, the daughter of Sir John Ayto ...

, Hope of Craighall, succeeded in 1766 upon the death of Sir John Bruce-Hope, the 7th Baronet. *Charles of Edinburgh married the eldest daughter of Thomas Boyd *David, died unmarried *Robert was a

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and was the father of the botanist, John Hope, grandfather of the chemist, Charles Thomas Hope, FRSE. *Margaret, married Patrick Scott of Rossie, whose descendants include David Scott of Dunninald *Bethia, married firstly Ninian Lewis or Lowis, secondly Sir William Nairne, 2nd Baronet Nairne of Dunsinane *Ann, married Alexander Stevenson, W.S. of Montgreenan *Helen, married Patrick Butter, Esq. of Gormack

References

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Early life

Legal career

Family

See also

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