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The name Hope is thought to be of native Scots origin and derives from the borders family of Hop or Hoip. John de Hoip of Peeblesshire and Adam le Hoip appear on the Ragman Roll of Scottish nobles submitting to Edward 1st of England in 1926. The immediate ancestor of the principal line, John de Hope is thought to have come to Scotland from France in 1537 as part of the retinue of James V's first wife Magdalen. He settled in Ediburgh, where he married and fathered a son, Edward, who went on to become one of the commissioners for Edinburgh to the first General assembly of the Church of Scotland in 1560. His grandson, Sir Thomas Hope, acquired the estate of Craighall in the parish of Ceres in Fife, which was to become the principal family designation. He was at the time one of the greatest lawyers and his work is occasionally referred to by Scots lawyers even today. His eldest son, took the title of "Lord Craighall" and is credited with advising the exiled Charles II to 'tret with Cromwell for the one half of his cloak before he lost the whole'. In 1729, the sizth baronet sold the Craighall estate to his kinsman, The Earl of Hopetoun. The parkland known as The Meadows, on the South side of Edinburgh was laid out by the eighth Baronet of Craighall who was a distinguished agricultual improver. The sixteenth Baronet served with distinction during the Boer and First World Wards and also served as a meber of Parliament for Midlothian between 1912 and 1918. The Hoptoun branch originated from Sir James Hope, who acquired lands in West Lothian and took as his territorial style, Hopetoun. His son, John Hope, is believed to have died saving the Duke of York on the frigate Gloucester. In the eighteenth century the Earls of Hopetoun acquired vast estates and eventually came to own the majority of West Lothian as well as large parts of Lanarkshire and East Lothian. The family reside in Hopetoun to this day, which has now been placed in Trust to preserve this great monument for the nation. The claimants to the chiefship of Hope, the Baronets of Craighall, still survive today. |
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