The family origins are generally believed to date back to a John Hope, shown in the Edinburgh Burgess Rolls of 1516-1517 with the alias Petit Johnne, Trumpetour. Unfortunately, before he could do so, he drowned in the shipwreck of the ‘Gloucester’ whilst accompanying the Duke of York (later James VII/II) on a journey to Scotland.Some fourteen years later in 1721, the renowned Scottish architect William Adam was commissioned to undertake a programme of alterations and improvements that lasted until 1767. After serving as Governor of Victoria, Australia at the age of 29, he returned to Britain to become Queen Victoria’s Lord Chamberlain. 1 He married Skye Laurette Bovill, daughter of Major Bristow Charles Bovill and Kerry Anne Reynolds, on 10 July 1993. In 1928 he was made a Knight of the Order of the Thistle. In the family apartments, “the run of bedrooms is the same run of rooms that the 2nd Earl slept in when he finished doing the house up”. The boys are selected from among the sons of Her Majesty’s friends and her Household. “It’s quite a privilege.” It’s a beautiful house,” he says. As well as 100 residential let properties on the land, there’s an arable and livestock farm business, and a small shoot, plus another 20,000 acres elsewhere in Scotland.Nevertheless, it is giant, with more than 30 windows across the west side. Later he became a merchant and a Guildbrother: it is recorded that he had property in the High Street, Edinburgh and lands near Leith at Newhaven or Le Porte de Grace as it was then known.John’s son Henry (circa 1533-1591) was a burgess both of Dieppe and of Edinburgh and his son, Sir Thomas Hope of Craighall (1573-1646), studied law and was appointed King’s Advocate by Charles I in 1626. He was also one of the first Governors of The Edinburgh Infirmary (later The Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh).By the time of James the 3rd Earl (1741-1816) the family owned large areas of land in East and West Lothian, Fife and Lanarkshire. No, it hasn’t. The 2nd Earl was a very religious man and a noted agricultural improver, who purchased the Ormiston Estates in East Lothian. However, as James had no son, he was succeeded by his half-brother General Sir John Hope (1765-1823) as 4th Earl.

He went back as the first Governor General of the newly-formed Commonwealth of Australia in 1900. “Why wouldn’t you want to come and live here?” His father moved out of the main house, into another property on the estate. This increased wealth enabled his son, John Hope (1650-1682) to purchase the lands of Abercorn with a view to building a fine house for himself. For this he was created a Knight of the Order of the Garter, one of only a handful of non-royals to be a Knight both of the Garter and of the Thistle. Andrew Victor Arthur Charles Hope, Earl of Hopetoun (b. There’s a lot to see: first, the 14-acre walled garden – “annoyingly the largest in Scotland, which is not what you want” – before a bowling green, which gets “very little use”, a similarly underused polo park, and then the West Lawn, where there was once an extravagant parterre, and a pond. The Hope family has a long and honourable record of service to crown, country, the law and the military. 22 May 1969); married Skye Laurette Bovill, daughter of Major Bristow Charles Bovill and Kerry Anne Reynolds, on 10 July 1993.

Lord Alexander John Adrian Hope (b. There is some debate as to whether it has the longest facade in the country – that accolade may or may not belong to Wentworth Woodhouse in South Yorkshire.It is tipping it down with rain, but Lord Hopetoun, 49, is all smiles as he pulls on his wellies for a romp around the grounds. 1 He is the son of Adrian John Charles Hope, 4th Marquess of Linlithgow and Anne Pamela Leveson. The average annual cost is “probably seven figures”, but in recent years, Lord Hopetoun has managed to reduce the total. During the periods of time in which it might easily have been altered, there wasn’t someone here with the impetus to do it.”The house in question, Hopetoun, in South Queensferry, on the outskirts of Edinburgh, is a big one. (There are now three other children too: Georgina, 20, and twins Charles, Viscount Aithrie, and Victor, 17. He chaired the committee on Indian constitutional reform in 1933 and helped formulate the Government of India Act of 1935.

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