James Hope-Scott

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James Robert Hope-Scott (July 15, 1812 - April 29, 1873) was an English barrister and Tractarian.

He was born at Great Marlow, Berkshire, the third son of Sir Alexander Hope, and grandson of the second Earl of Hopetoun. After a childhood spent at the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, of which his father was commander, he was educated at Eton College and Christchurch, Oxford, where he was a contemporary and friend of William Ewart Gladstone and John Henry Newman. In 1838 he was called to the bar at Lincoln's Inn. Between 1840 and 1843 he helped to found Trinity College, Glenalmond. He was one of the leaders of the Tractarian movement and entirely in Newman's confidence. In 1851 he was received with Manning into the Roman Catholic Church.

At this time he was making a very large income at the Parliamentary bar. He only commenced serious practice in this branch of his profession in 1843, but by the end of 1845 he stood at the head of it and in 1846 was made a Queen's Counsel. In 1847 he married Charlotte Harriet Jane Lockhart, granddaughter of Sir Walter Scott, and, on her coming into possession of Abbotsford House six years later, he assumed the surname of Hope-Scott. After her death on 26 October 1858 he married as his second wife in 1861, Lady Victoria Fitzalan-Howard, daughter of the 14th Duke of Norfolk. He retired from the bar in 1870 and spent the rest of his life in charitable and literary work.

Both his wives died in childbirth. He left an only daughter by his first marriage, Mary Monica (born 2 October 1852), later wife of Joseph Constable Maxwell, third son of William, Lord Herries. Two other children of this marriage died in infancy. By his second marrriage he left a son, James Fitzalan Hope-Scott (born 11 December 1870), and three daughters; two other children died young.

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This article incorporates text from the Encyclopædia Britannica Eleventh Edition, a publication now in the public domain.
Dictionary of National Biography, volume IX
The Life of Scott, John Gibson Lockhart, ed. James Robert Hope Scott, 1871