HOPE-SCOTT

James Robert ( 3 son of general the hon. Sir Alexander Hope, G.C.B. 1769–1837 ). b. Great Marlow, Bucks. 15 July 1812; ed. at Eton 1825–28 and at Ch. Ch. Ox., B.A. 1832, B.C.L. 1838, D.C.L. 1842; fellow of Merton 13 April 1833; commenced a friendship with W. E. Gladstone 1837 and corresponded with him on “The State in its relation with the Church” 1838; barrister I.T. 26 Jany. 1838, reader 1862; a promoter of Glen almond college, Perth shire 1841; chancellor of diocese of Salisbury 1840 to 10 Feb. 1845; Q.C. April 1849; paid fees of £20,000 by London and north western railway for 25 bills 1860; received into R.C. church at Farm st. London 6 April 1851; lived at Abbots ford 1853 to death; a umed additional name of Scott 1853; spent winters of 1863–70 at the Villa Madonna Hyères which he bought 1859; visited by Queen Victoria at Abbots ford 22 Aug. 1867; built church of Our Lady and St. Andrew at Gala shiels at cost of £10,000, opened 2 Feb. 1858; purchased estate of Lochshiel for £24,000, 1855; author of The bishopric of the United Church of England and Ireland at Jerusalem 1841, 2 ed. 1842. d. 7 Hyde park place, London 29 April 1873. bur. in the vaults of St. Margaret’s convent, Brunts field, Edin. 7 May. Memoirs of J. R. Hope-Scott, By Robert Ornsby 2 vols. 1884.