| Clan Hope | |||
|---|---|---|---|
 Crest: A broken terrestrial globe surmounted by a rainbow issuing out of a cloud at each end all Proper. | |||
| Motto | At Spes Infracta (Yet my hope is unbroken) [1] | ||
| Profile | |||
| Region | Lowlands | ||
| District | Fife | ||
| Chief | |||
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| Sir Alexander Archibald Douglas Hope of Craighall, [2] | |||
| 19th Baronet Hope of Craighall | |||
| Seat | Westleigh Avenue, London. [3] | ||
| Historic seat | Craighall, Fife | ||
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Clan Hope is a Scottish clan of the Scottish Lowlands. [4]
The surname Hope may be of native Scottish origin, being derived from the Scottish Borders family of Hop or Hoip. [4] In 1296 John de Hop of Peeblesshire and Adam le Houp both appear on the Ragman Rolls submitting to Edward I of England. [4] Alexander Nisbet suggested that the name may be from the H'oublons of Picardy family in France. [4] The French word houblon means hop, which when translated into English becomes Hope. [4]
The immediate ancestor of the principal line of the clan was John de Hope who is said to have come to Scotland from France in 1537 as part of the retinue of Magdalen, the first wife of James V of Scotland. [4]
John married and settled in Edinburgh where he prospered. [4] He had a son named Edward who in 1560 was a commissioner to the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland for Edinburgh. [4]
John's descendant, Sir Thomas Hope, was appointed Lord Advocate by Charles I of England. [4] Thomas acquired the estate of Craighall which is in the parish of Ceres, county of Fife. [4] Craighall became the chief's designation. [4] Sir Thomas was a lawyer whose work Hopes Practicks is still sometimes referred to by Scots lawyers today. [4] He was created a Baronet of Nova Scotia in 1628 and helped draft the National Covenant in 1638. [4] He died in 1646 and his eldest son succeeded to the Baronetcy, taking the title Lord Craighall. [4] He is credited to have advised Charles I of England, while in exile: tret with Cromwell for the one half of his cloak before he lost the whole. [4]
A junior branch of the clan were the Hopes of Hopetoun who descend from a younger son of the Lord Advocate. [4] This son acquired lands in West Lothian and took the territorial style, Hopetoun. [4] His son was John Hope of Hopetoun who drowned in the wreckage of the Gloucester and it is believed that he died saving the Duke of York (later James VII of Scotland and II of England). [4]
John Hope of Hopetoun's son was Charles Hope who in 1702 was elected to Parliament for Linlithgow. [4] He was later appointed to the Privy Council and in 1703 was raised in the peerage as Earl of Hopetoun. [4]
In 1729 the sixth Baronet sold the estate of Craighill to his kinsman the Earl of Hopetoun. [4] The Earl of Hopetoun's estates grew rapidly in the 18th century with most of West Lothian, and parts of East Lothian and Lanarkshire. [4]
Sir John Hope, 4th Earl of Hopetoun had a notable military career, serving throughout the Peninsular War. [4] In 1822 he staged a magnificent reception for George IV at Hoptoun during the king's famous visit to Scotland. [4]
The hereditary chief of Clan Hope is Sir Alexander Archibald Douglas Hope, OBE, 19th Baronet of Craighall, Chief of the Name and Arms of Hope, Chief of Clan Hope. The chiefly line of the Hope family survives through the Baronets of Craighall who are the senior line of the Clan Hope. [4]
The seat of Hope baronets of Craighall was moved from Craighall Castle in Fife to Pinkie House in Musselburgh, East Lothian, Scotland. Originally built in the 16th century, Pinkie House was acquired by Sir Archibald Hope, 9th Baronet of Craighall, in 1778, until sold in 1951.
Hopetoun House is the seat of the junior branch of the Clan Hope who were Earls of Hopetoun and since 1902 have been Marquesses of Linlithgow.
Marquess of Linlithgow, in the County of Linlithgow or West Lothian, is a title in the Peerage of the United Kingdom. It was created on 23 October 1902 for John Hope, 7th Earl of Hopetoun. The current holder of the title is Adrian Hope.
Sir Thomas Hope, 1st Baronet Hope of Craighall (1573–1646) was a Scottish lawyer, and Lord Advocate under Charles I.
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Charles Hope, 1st Earl of Hopetoun, KT, PC was a Scottish nobleman.
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There have been four baronetcies created for persons with the surname Hope, three in the Baronetage of Nova Scotia and one in the Baronetage of the United Kingdom. As of 2010 one creation is extant, one dormant and two extinct.
The Dunbar, later Hope-Dunbar Baronetcy, of Baldoon, is a title in the Baronetage of Nova Scotia. It was created on 13 October 1664 for David Dunbar, with remainder to his heirs male and tailzie. The baronetcy became dormant on his death in 1686. The title remained dormant until 1916, when it was successfully claimed by Charles Hope-Dunbar, who became the sixth Baronet. He was a descendant of Mary, granddaughter and sole heiress of the first Baronet. Hope-Dunbar was also the grandson of the Hon. Charles Hope, third son of John Hope, 4th Earl of Hopetoun. Consequently, the present holder of the baronetcy is also in remainder to the earldom of Hopetoun and its subsidiary titles the viscountcy of Aithrie, lordship of Hope and baronetcy of Kirkliston, titles held by his kinsman the Marquess of Linlithgow.
Sir John Wedderburn of Ballindean, 6th Baronet of Blackness (1729–1803) was a Scottish landowner who made a fortune in slave sugar in the West Indies. Born into a family of impoverished Perthshire gentry, his father, Sir John Wedderburn, 5th Baronet of Blackness, was executed for treason following the Jacobite uprising of 1745, and the young Wedderburn was forced to flee to the West Indies, where he eventually became the largest landowner in Jamaica. In 1769 he returned to Scotland with a slave, one Joseph Knight, who was inspired by Somersett's Case, a judgment in London determining that slavery did not exist under English law. Wedderburn was sued by Knight in a freedom suit, and lost his case, establishing the principle that Scots law would not uphold the institution of slavery either. Wedderburn ended his days as a wealthy country gentleman, having restored his family fortune and recovered the title Baronet of Blackness.
Sir John Hope, 2nd Baronet, Lord Craighall (1605?–1654) was a Scottish judge.
Sir Archibald Hope, Lord Rankeillor was a Scottish advocate and judge, the second son of John Hope, Lord Craighall, the grandfather of the botanist John Hope and the great-grandfather of the chemist Thomas Charles Hope, FRSE.
Hugh Hope (1782–1822) was a civil servant for the East India Company and the third son of Sir Archibald Hope, 9th Baronet Hope of Craighall. A portrait of Hugh Hope, painted by Sir Henry Raeburn (1756–1823), currently hangs in The Cleveland Museum of Art.
Sir Archibald Hope, 9th Baronet was a Scottish aristocrat.
