Scottish politician (1684–1766)
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 Sir Charles Halkett, 1st Baronet 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 in 1774 , 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 .[citation needed ]
References
Sources
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). "Bruce, John Hope" . In Stephen, Leslie (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography . Vol. 7. London: Smith, Elder & Co. p. 109.