James Hope

Who was James Hope?

Hon. James Hope, later known as James Hope-Wallace, was a Scottish soldier and Conservative Party politician.

The son of General John Hope, 4th Earl of Hopetoun, and Louisa Dorothea Wedderburn, he served in the Coldstream Guards, where he gained the rank of Lieutenant-Colonel.

He was elected unopposed at the 1835 general election as the Member of Parliament for Linlithgowshire, and re-elected against a Liberal Party opponent in 1837. He resigned from the House of Commons in 1838, by the procedural advice of accepting appointment as Steward of the Chiltern Hundreds.

He changed his name to Hope-Wallace on 4 March 1837, in connection with inhering the estates of his uncle Lord Wallace, including Featherstone Castle in Northumberland.

He served at some point as a Deputy Lieutenant of Linlithgowshire.

His granddaughter Jaqueline Hope-Wallace CBE was a senior civil servant and partner of the author Dame Veronica Wedgwood.