Sir John Hope, Lord Craighall (1605?–1654) was a Scottish judge.
Life
Born about 1605, he was eldest son of
Sir Thomas Hope of Craighall, 1st Baronet
Sir Thomas Hope, 1st Baronet Hope of Craighall (1573–1646) was a Scottish lawyer, and Lord Advocate under Charles I.
Life
He was the son of an eminent Edinburgh merchant, Henry Hope, and his French wife, Jacqueline de Tott, her parents of ...
, by Elizabeth, daughter of John Bennet of Wallyford in
Haddingtonshire
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Sir James Hope (1614–1661) of Hopetoun, was his younger brother. In 1619 the family acquired and moved to
Granton Castle just north-west of
Edinburgh
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.
[Stranger on the Shore, James Gracie, p.21]
He was educated for the law, and having been admitted advocate acquired a practice, and in 1632 was knighted and appointed an
ordinary lord of session
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. He assumed the title of Lord Craighall, and took his seat on 27 July.
In September 1638 Hope refused to subscribe the king's covenant until it had been approved by the
General Assembly
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. In 1640 he was placed on the committee of estates appointed to provide for the defence of the kingdom against
Charles I Charles I may refer to:
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; was reappointed ordinary lord of session in the following year; and in 1644 was made one of the commissioners for the visitation of St. Andrews, the plantation of kirks, the administration of the exchequer and the excise.
In 1646 his father died and he inherited Granton Castle and its estates.
In 1651 his brother, Sir Alexander Hope, underwent examination by the committee of estates for advising the king to surrender Scotland and Ireland to
Oliver Cromwell
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, and quoted Lord Craighall to the effect that it would be wise in the king to "treat with Cromwell for one-half of his coat before he lost the whole". In May 1652 Craighall was appointed one of Cromwell's committee, consisting of five English and three Scottish judges, for the administration of justice.
Hope died at Edinburgh on 28 April 1654.
Family
Hope firstly married Margaret, daughter of Sir Archibald Murray of Blackbarony, Bart.,
After her death in childbirth on 3 October 1641, Hope married Dame Rachel Speir, Lady Currichill, on 7 December 1643.
By his first wife, Hope had two sons and six daughters.
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
The High Court of Justiciary is the supreme criminal court in Scotland. The High Court is both a trial court and a court of appeal. As a trial court, the High Court sits on circuit at Parliament House or in the adjacent former Sheriff Cour ...
in 1690. He took the title of Lord Rankeillor, and was M.P. for Fifeshire from 25 April 1706 till his death on 10 October that year. The baronetcy continued through his line when
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 ...
assumed the baronetcy on the death of his cousin, Sir John Hope Bruce, 7th Baronet.
John Hope the botanist was his grandson.
References
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External links
George Jamesone Portrait of Lord Craighall
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1605 births
1654 deaths
John
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Craighall
Craighall is a suburb of Johannesburg
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English MPs 1653 (Barebones)