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Sir John Bruce Hope 7th Baronet | |
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| Governor of Bermuda | |
| In office 1721–1727 | |
| Member of Parliament for Kinross-shire | |
| In office 1727–1734 | |
| In office 1741–1747 | |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 1684 |
| Died | June 6, 1766 (aged 81–82) |
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| Military service | |
| Allegiance | Kingdom of Great Britain |
| Branch/service | British Army |
| Rank | Lieutenant-General |
| Unit | 2nd Troop Horse Grenadier Guards; 3rd Regiment of Foot Guards; 26th Regiment of Foot |
Lieutenant-General Sir John Bruce Hope, 7th Baronet (1684 – 6 June 1766) was a Scottish soldier and politician who was 7th Baronet Hope of Craighall.
Life
[edit]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
[edit]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,[2][3] 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
[edit]- 1 2 "Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Peerage and Baronetage of the British Empire". Google Books. Burke's Peerage Limited. 1914. pp. 1034–1035. Retrieved 29 May 2017.
- ↑ "John Baronet Bruce Hope". FamilySearch. Retrieved 18 April 2025.
- ↑ "Ann Bruce". FamilySearch. Retrieved 18 April 2025.
Sources
[edit]- 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). . In Stephen, Leslie (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 7. London: Smith, Elder & Co. p. 109.