John Hope
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John Hope may refer to:
- Sir John Bruce Hope, 7th Baronet, MP for KinrossClackmannanshire and Kinross-shire (UK Parliament constituency)Clackmannanshire and Kinross-shire were constituencies of the House of Commons of Great Britain from 1708 to 1801 and of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1801 to 1918....
, 1727–1734, 1741–1747 - John Hope, 2nd Earl of HopetounJohn Hope, 2nd Earl of HopetounJohn Hope, 2nd Earl of Hopetoun was the son of Charles Hope, 1st Earl of Hopetoun and Lady Henrietta Johnstone....
(1704–1781) - John Hope (botanist)John Hope (botanist)John Hope was a Scottish physician and botanist. He is best known as an early supporter of Carl Linnaeus's system of classification, largely because he published very little of the research that might have made him a name in plant physiology....
(1725–1786), Scottish surgeon and botanist - Jan HopeJan HopeJohn Hope , also known as Jan Hope, was the son of Thomas Hope and Margaretha Marcelis, first cousin of Henry Hope, father of Thomas Hope, and a follower of the Scottish Enlightenment, who is best known today for his Groenendaal Park in Heemstede, Netherlands, where he summered from 1767 to his...
(1737–1784), also called John Hope, Dutch banker and owner of Groenendaal park - John Hope (writer)John Hope (writer)John Hope was a British merchant, writer and politician in the eighteenth century who briefly served as Member of Parliament for Linlithgowshire before being dismissed by his cousin John Hope, 2nd Earl of Hopetoun after conflict over the John Wilkes affair...
(1739–1785), British politician and writer - John Hope, 4th Earl of HopetounJohn Hope, 4th Earl of HopetounLieutenant General John Hope, 4th Earl of Hopetoun PC KB , known as the Honourable John Hope from 1781 to 1814 and as the Lord Niddry from 1809 to 1816, was a Scottish soldier and politician.-Military career:...
(1765–1823), Scottish soldier and politician - Sir John Hope (British Army officer) (1765–1836), British Army officer
- John Hope (Scottish judge)John Hope (Scottish judge)John Hope , Scottish judge, eldest son of Charles Hope, Lord President of the Court of Session, was born on 26 May 1794, and received some part of his education at the High School of Edinburgh....
(1794-1858) - Sir John Hope, 11th Baronet (1781–1853), MP for Midlothian, 1845–1853
- John C. HopeJohn C. HopeJohn Christian Hope was a Lutheran scholar, priest, secretary and president of the South Carolina Lutheran Seminary, Representative, and Senator in his native state of South Carolina....
(1806–1879), Lutheran scholar, priest and politician from South Carolina - John Hope, 1st Marquess of LinlithgowJohn Hope, 1st Marquess of LinlithgowJohn Adrian Louis Hope, 1st Marquess of Linlithgow KT, GCMG, GCVO, PC , also known as Viscount Aithrie before 1873 and as The 7th Earl of Hopetoun between 1873 and 1902, was a Scottish aristocrat, politician and colonial administrator. He is best known for his brief and controversial tenure as the...
(1860–1908), first Governor-General of Australia - John Deans HopeJohn Deans HopeJohn Deans Hope was a Scottish Liberal politician.-Family and education:Hope was born in Duddington, Midlothian, the son of the late James Hope of Eastbarns, Dunbar, a famous agriculturalist. In 1899 he married Elizabeth Holmes-Kerr whose father had homes in Glasgow and Underbank in Ayrshire. They...
(1860–1949), Scottish Liberal politician. - John Hope (educator)John Hope (educator)John Hope , born in Augusta, Georgia, was an African-American educator and political activist. He was the son of James Hope, a white Scottish merchant, born in Langholm, Scotland in 1805. Arriving in New York City in 1817, he was a successful grocer in Manhattan before moving south to Augusta in...
(1868–1936), American educator - Sir John Hope, 16th Baronet, 16th Baronet (1869–1924), MP for Midlothian, 1912–1918, and Midlothian North and Peebles, 1918–1922
- John Hope, 1st Baron GlendevonJohn Hope, 1st Baron GlendevonJohn Adrian Louis Hope, 1st Baron Glendevon PC , known as Lord John Hope from 1912 to 1964, was a Scottish Tory politician....
(1912–1996), Scottish Tory politician - John Hope (meteorologist)John Hope (meteorologist)John Raymond Hope was an American meteorologist who specialized in hurricane forecasting and was an on-air personality on The Weather Channel.-Life history:...
(1919–2002), American meteorologist and hurricane forecaster - John Hope (baseball) (born 1970), American baseball pitcher