Henry John Hope, 3rd Baron Rankeillour (20 January 1899 – 2 December 1967) was a Scottish landowner, soldier, barrister, and member of the

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Life

The younger son of

James Hope, 1st Baron Rankeillour James Fitzalan Hope, 1st Baron Rankeillour, PC (11 December 1870 – 14 February 1949), was a British Conservative politician. He served as Chairman of Ways and Means from 1921 to 1924 and again from 1924 to 1929. Background and education A me ...

(1870–1949), and a direct descendant of

Sir Thomas Hope, 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 ...

(1573–1646) and

Charles Hope, 1st Earl of Hopetoun Charles Hope, 1st Earl of Hopetoun, Order of the Thistle, KT, Privy Council, PC (1681 – 26 February 1742) was a Scotland, Scottish nobleman. Early life He was the son of John Hope of Hopetoun by a daughter of the John Hamilton, 4th Earl of Had ...

(1681–1742), Hope was educated at the

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, and commissioned into the

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. He saw active service during the First World War, after which he trained as a barrister, and in 1925 was

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from the

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.Rankeillour, Baron (UK, 1932)
at cracroftspeerage.co.uk, accessed 8 April 2020 On 19 December 1933, Hope married Mary Sibyl Ricardo, a daughter of Colonel Wilfred Ricardo DSO of Hook Hall, Surrey. They had a son, Peter St Thomas More Henry Hope (1935–2005), who succeeded him as the fourth baron, and a daughter, Anne Mary Elizabeth (born 1936). In the war of 1939-45, Hope returned to his regiment and rose to the rank of Colonel. A Roman Catholic, he was appointed as a

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. In 1958, Hope succeeded his elder brother as

Baron Rankeillour Baron Rankeillour, of Buxted in the County of Sussex, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created in 1932 for the Conservative politician James Fitzalan Hope. He was the grandson of General Sir Alexander Hope, fourth son of ...

and inherited an estate based at Achaderry House, Roy Bridge,

Inverness-shire Inverness-shire () or the County of Inverness, is a Counties of Scotland, historic county in Scotland. It is named after Inverness, its largest settlement, which was also the county town. Covering much of the Scottish Highlands, Highlands and s ...

. In the Lords, he chose to sit as a Conservative.''Dod's Parliamentary Companion'', (Dod's Parliamentary Companion Limited, 1966) Rankeillour died in 1967 and was succeeded by his only son.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Rankeillour, Henry John Hope, 4th Baron 1899 births 1967 deaths Nobility from Highland (council area) Graduates of the Royal Military College, Sandhurst Henry John 3 Knights of Malta Scots Guards officers 20th-century Scottish landowners