Lieutenant-General Sir John Bruce Hope, 7th Baronet (c. 1684 – 5 June 1766) was a Scottish soldier and politician who was 7th Baronet Hope of Craighall.

Life

He was born John Hope, the third son of

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by his wife Anne, daughter and heiress of Sir William Bruce, 1st Baronet of

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. He succeeded his elder brothers in the Hope baronetcy and in their mother's estate of Kinross, assuming the additional surname of Bruce. Hope was a lieutenant and captain in the

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in 1708, and captain and lieutenant-colonel in the

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the same year. He was lieutenant-colonel of the

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from 1716 to 1718, and

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from 1721 to 1727. He sat in Parliament as Member for

Kinross-shire The County of Kinross or Kinross-shire is a historic county and registration county in eastern Scotland, administered as part of Perth and Kinross since 1930. Surrounding its largest settlement and county town of Kinross, the county borders Per ...

from 1727 to 1734 and from 1741 to 1747; he was hereditary

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of the county from about 1715 until the

Heritable Jurisdictions Act The Heritable Jurisdictions (Scotland) Act 1746 (20 Geo. II c. 43) was an Act of Parliament passed in the aftermath of the Jacobite rising of 1745 abolishing judicial rights (Scotland), judicial rights held by Scots heritors. These were a signific ...

. He was colonel of a regiment of foot from 1743 to 1748, and was promoted major-general in 1754 and lieutenant-general in 1758.

Family

Bruce Hope married firstly Charlotte, daughter of Sir Charles Halkett, 1st Baronet of

Pitfirrane Dunfermline (; sco, Dunfaurlin, gd, Dùn Phàrlain) is a city, parish and former Royal Burgh, in Fife, Scotland, on high ground from the northern shore of the Firth of Forth. The city currently has an estimated population of 58,508. Acco ...

; they had no children. His second wife was Marianne, daughter of the Rev. William Denune, of

Pencaitland Pencaitland is a village in East Lothian, Scotland, about south-east of Edinburgh, south-west of Haddington, and east of Ormiston. The land where the village lies is said to have been granted by William the Lion to Calum Cormack in 1169, ...

. Their only surviving child
Anne, who married Thomas Williamson at Edinburgh in 1774
did not inherit the Kinross estates, which instead went to the descendants of Bruce Hope's mother by her second husband, Sir John Carstairs of

Kilconquhar Kilconquhar ( or ; sco, also Kinneuchar, from the gd, Cill Dhúnchadha or gd, Cill Chonchaidh, Church of (St) Duncan or Conchad) is a village and parish in Fife in Scotland. It includes the small hamlet of Barnyards. It is bounded by the paris ...

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, ", ..sometime .." in ''The Complete Baronetage'', volume II (1902
page 344
* Paula Watson
HOPE, John (c.1684-1766), of Culdraines.
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: the House of Commons 1715-1754'' (1970). * {{DEFAULTSORT:Bruce Hope, John 1680s births 1766 deaths

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Baronets in the Baronetage of Nova Scotia Scots Guards officers Cameronians officers British Army lieutenant generals British MPs 1727–1734 British MPs 1741–1747 Governors of Bermuda Members of the Parliament of Great Britain for Scottish constituencies