Sir John Hope, 11th Baronet (13 April 1781 – 5 June 1853) was a

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and politician.

Life

Sir John was born at

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on 13 April 1781, the oldest son of Sir Archibald Hope, 9th Baronet and his second wife, Elizabeth Patoun (d. 1818), the daughter of John Patoun of Inveresk. He succeeded to the baronetcy on the death of his unmarried half-brother, Sir Thomas Hope, 10th Baronet. The Hope Baronetcy of

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in the County of Fife, was created in the

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on 19 February 1628 for Thomas Hope, a Scottish lawyer and advisor to

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. Sir John was first elected as a

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Member of Parliament for

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in June 1845 upon the retirement of William Ramsay Ramsay, Esq. He was re-elected without opposition in 1847 and 1852. He was also a Vice-Lieutenant for the county. Additionally, Sir John was a Lieutenant-Colonel Commandant in the Royal Midlothian Yeomanry Cavalry and a Deputy-Governor of the

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Family

Sir John married Anne, 4th daughter of Sir John Wedderburn, 6th Baronet of Blackness and Ballindean, on 17 June 1805 and had the following children: *Sir Archibald Hope, 12th Baronet *Sir John David Hope, 13th Baronet *Thomas Hope, b. 10 July 1810, Rear Admiral Royal Navy, d. 31 August 1867 *Hugh Hope, b. 3 June 1813 and d. 15 August 1876 *General Sir William Hope, 14th Baronet *James Wedderburn Hope, b. 4 September 1823, 26th Bombay Native Infantry, d. 9 June 1846 *Sir Alexander Hope, 15th Baronet *Rev. Charles Augustus Hope,

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, Rector of

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and

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, b. 7 August 1827 and d. 30 December 1898; father of Sir John Augustus Hope, 16th Baronet *Alicia, d. unmarried 29 January 1887 *Elizabeth, d. unmarried 4 March 1890 Sir John died on at his son Hugh's Hyde Park residence. Sir John and his wife are buried in the Hope Baronets plot at St. Michael's Parish Church,

Inveresk Inveresk (Gaelic: ''Inbhir Easg'') is a village in East Lothian, Scotland situated to the south of Musselburgh. It has been designated a conservation area since 1969. It is situated on slightly elevated ground on the north bank of a loop ...

, Scotland. An adjacent plot holds the graves of many of Sir John's family.

References

External links

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Sir John's Find A Grave Memorial
{{DEFAULTSORT:Hope, John 1781 births 1853 deaths Nobility from East Lothian

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111 Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for Scottish constituencies UK MPs 1841–1847 UK MPs 1847–1852 UK MPs 1852–1857