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Sir John Bruce Hope, 7th Baronet (1684 – 6 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 Sir Thomas Hope, 4th Baronet of Craighall by his wife Anne, daughter and heiress of

Sir William Bruce, 1st Baronet Sir William Bruce of Kinross, 1st Baronet (c. 1630 – 1710), was a Scottish gentleman-architect, "the effective founder of classical architecture in Scotland," as Howard Colvin observes.Colvin, p.172–176 As a key figure in introducing the Pa ...

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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 3rd Regiment of Foot Guards the same year. He was lieutenant-colonel of the 26th Regiment of Foot from 1716 to 1718, and

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

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

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of the county from about 1715 until the

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

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. 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

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