John Bruce Hope
Lieutenant-General Sir John Bruce Hope, 7th Baronet (c. 1684 – 5 June 1766) was a Scottish soldier and politician who was 7th Baronet Hope of Craighall.
Life[]
He was born John Hope, the third son of Sir Thomas Hope, 4th Baronet of Craighall by his wife Anne, daughter and heiress of Sir William Bruce, 1st Baronet of Kinross.[1] He succeeded his elder brothers in the Hope baronetcy and in their mother's estate of Kinross, assuming the additional surname of Bruce.[1]
Hope was a lieutenant and captain in the 2nd Troop Horse Grenadier Guards in 1708, and captain and lieutenant-colonel in the 3rd Regiment of Foot Guards the same year. He was lieutenant-colonel of the 26th Regiment of Foot from 1716 to 1718, and Governor of Bermuda from 1721 to 1727. He sat in Parliament as Member for Kinross-shire from 1727 to 1734 and from 1741 to 1747; he was hereditary sheriff of the county from about 1715 until the Heritable Jurisdictions Act. He was colonel of a regiment of foot from 1743 to 1748, and was promoted major-general in 1754 and lieutenant-general in 1758.
Family[]
Bruce Hope married firstly Charlotte, daughter of of Pitfirrane; they had no children. His second wife was Marianne, daughter of the Rev. William Denune, of Pencaitland. Their only surviving child Anne (who married Thomas Williamson at Edinburgh, 1774[2]) did not inherit the Kinross estates, which instead went to the descendants of Bruce Hope's mother by her second husband, Sir John Carstairs of Kilconquhar.
References[]
- ^ a b "Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Peerage and Baronetage of the British Empire". Google Books. Burke's Peerage Limited. 1914. pp. 1034–1035. Retrieved 29 May 2017.
- ^ Marriage: https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:XY9P-YWG
- George Edward Cokayne, "Hope, [...] sometime [...] Bruce-Hope" in The Complete Baronetage, volume II (1902) page 344.
- Paula Watson, HOPE, John (c.1684-1766), of Culdraines. in The History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1715-1754 (1970).
- Bayne, Thomas Wilson (1886). Stephen, Leslie (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 7. London: Smith, Elder & Co. p. 109. . In
- 1680s births
- 1766 deaths
- Hope family
- Baronets in the Baronetage of Nova Scotia
- Scots Guards officers
- Cameronians officers
- British Army generals
- British MPs 1727–1734
- British MPs 1741–1747
- Governors of Bermuda
- Members of the Parliament of Great Britain for Scottish constituencies