Sir Harry Hope, 1st Baronet (24 September 1865 – 29 December 1959) was a Scottish Unionist politician and

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Life

The youngest son of James Hope, who farmed extensively in the

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, Harry Hope followed in his father's footsteps. He became President of Scottish Chamber of Agriculture in 1908, and in the same year was invited to join the Scottish Agricultural Commission which was invited by the government of the Dominion of Canada to report on the country's agricultural resources. Hope married Margaret Binnie Hope (

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Holms) in 1897, and had one child, Robert Holms-Kerr Hope. Hope sat as member of parliament (MP) for

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from 1910 to 1918, Stirlingshire and Clackmannan Western from 1918 to 1922, and

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from 1924 to 1931. He was

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in 1920. In 1932, he was created a Baronet of Kinnettles in the

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. During the debate on the repeal of the Corn Production Act in July 1921, Hope stated that, ‘The agricultural industry is the mainstay of this country’. By 1921, he owned 4 farms extending to a total of 1400

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, in the

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area. In the same year, he addressed a meeting in the following terms: "The worker could not be forgotten ... perhaps in the past he was too much forgotten ... he was a real partner in the industry." At the end of the 1930s, Hope cited Algerian argiculture as a threat to domestic potato production. He was often seen as a reliable representative of the interests of East Lothian farmers within the

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(as a Unionist), both before and after the war. Hope sat on numerous boards and was Convenor of Angus County Council for many years. He was appointed Deputy Lieutenant of the county in 1936 and Vice Lieutenant in 1938. Hope died on 29 December 1959, aged 94.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Hope, Harry 1865 births 1959 deaths Nobility from Angus, Scotland Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for Scottish constituencies Unionist Party (Scotland) MPs UK MPs 1910–1918 UK MPs 1918–1922 UK MPs 1924–1929 UK MPs 1929–1931

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Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for Stirling constituencies Scottish agriculturalists Deputy lieutenants of Angus Vice-lieutenants Knights Bachelor