Peter St Thomas More Henry Hope, 4th Baron Rankeillour (29 May 1935 — 12 April 2005) was a Scottish landowner, farmer, and member of the

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. The son of Henry Hope, 3rd Baron Rankeillour (1899–1967), 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),Rankeillour, Baron (UK, 1932)
at cracroftspeerage.co.uk, accessed 8 April 2020 he was educated at

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and succeeded his father 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 ...

in 1967, also inheriting an estate based at Achaderry House, Roy Bridge,

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. In the Lords, he chose to sit as a Conservative.''Dod's Parliamentary Companion'', Issue 173 (Dod's Parliamentary Companion Limited, 1992), p. 258 He was an inventor of

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and

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equipment and stated his recreations as country pursuits and large-scale landscaping. A keen yachtsman, in 1992 he was Rear Commodore of the House of Lords Yacht Club. Rankeillour died a bachelor and was succeeded by a cousin, Michael Richard Hope (born 1940).

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Peter Thomas More Hope, 4th Baron Rankeillour
at National Gallery web site {{DEFAULTSORT:Rankeillour, Peter St Thomas More Henry Hope, 4th Baron 1935 births 2005 deaths Nobility from Highland (council area) Peter St Thomas More Henry 4 People educated at Ampleforth College Rankeillour