James Hope (1807–1854)

Honourable James Hope (7 June 1807 – 7 January 1854),[1] later known as James Hope-Wallace,[2] was a Scottish soldier, landowner and Conservative Party politician.

For other people named James Hope, see James Hope (disambiguation).

Featherstone Castle in Northumberland, which Hope inherited from his uncle

Life

A younger son of General John Hope, 4th Earl of Hopetoun, and his second wife Louisa Dorothea Wedderburn, he served in the Coldstream Guards, where he gained the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel.[2]

He was elected unopposed at the 1835 general election as the Member of Parliament (MP) for Linlithgowshire,[3] and re-elected against a Liberal Party opponent in 1837.[3] He resigned from the House of Commons in 1838, by the procedural advice of accepting appointment as Steward of the Chiltern Hundreds.

He changed his name to Hope-Wallace on 4 March 1837,[4] in connection with inheriting the estates of his uncle Lord Wallace[4] (1768–1844), including Featherstone Castle in Northumberland.

He served at some point as a Deputy Lieutenant of Linlithgowshire.[4]

He died on 7 January 1854 at Haltwhistle, Northumberland.[2]

Family

On 4 March 1837 he married Lady Mary Frances Nugent (1811-1904), daughter of George Frederick Nugent, 7th Earl of Westmeath, and his second wife Lady Elizabeth Emily Moore.[2] Their son John George Frederick Hope-Wallace (1839-1900) in 1867 married Mary Frances Drinkwater Bethune (1847-1929), eldest child of Admiral Charles Ramsay Bethune,[2] and had seven children.

A great-grandson was the critic Philip Hope-Wallace CBE[2] and his sister was Jacqueline Hope-Wallace CBE, a senior civil servant who was the partner of the author Dame Veronica Wedgwood.[5]

References
  1. Leigh Rayment's Historical List of MPs – Constituencies beginning with "L" (part 4)
  2. Lundy, Darryl. "Hon. James Hope-Wallace". ThePeerage.com. Retrieved 21 July 2010.
  3. Craig, F. W. S. (1989) [1977]. British parliamentary election results 1832–1885 (2nd ed.). Chichester: Parliamentary Research Services. p. 595. ISBN 0-900178-26-4.
  4. Dewar, Peter Beauclerk (2001). Burke's landed gentry of Great Britain. p. 680. ISBN 9780971196605.
  5. "Women in the Civil Service". Archived from the original on 6 October 2013. Retrieved 21 July 2010.


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