Capt Thomas Hope (3 February 1848 – 28 March 1925) was the

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MP for

Linlithgowshire West Lothian ( sco, Wast Lowden; gd, Lodainn an Iar) is one of the 32 council areas of Scotland, and was one of its historic counties. The county was called Linlithgowshire until 1925. The historic county was bounded geographically by the Av ...

, winning it in the 1893 by-election and resigning it in 1895. In

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, he was also Provincial Grand Master of the Provincial Grand Lodge of

from 1894 to 1904. Thomas Hope was elected to the newly created Linlithgowshire County Council (for Torphichen Parish) in 1889 and became its first County Convener.

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* 1848 births 1925 deaths Scottish Tory MPs (pre-1912) UK MPs 1892–1895 19th-century Scottish people {{Conservative-UK-MP-1840s-stub