John Hope, 1st Baron Glendevon

The Right Honourable
The Lord Glendevon
PC
Portrait by Walter Bird in 1956
Minister of Works
In office
22 October 1959  16 July 1962
Prime Minister Harold Macmillan
Preceded by Hugh Molson
Succeeded by Geoffrey Rippon
Joint Under-Secretary of State for Scotland
In office
18 January 1957  22 October 1959
Prime Minister Harold Macmillan
Under-Secretary of State for Commonwealth Relations
In office
9 November 1956  18 January 1957
Prime Minister Anthony Eden
Preceded by Allan Noble
Succeeded by Cuthbert Alport
Joint Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs
In office
18 October 1954  9 November 1956
Prime Minister Sir Winston Churchill
Anthony Eden
Member of Parliament
for Edinburgh Pentlands
Midlothian and Peebles Northern (1945–1950)
In office
5 July 1945  15 October 1964
Preceded by Sir David King Murray
Succeeded by Norman Russell Wylie
Personal details
Born 7 April 1912
Died 18 January 1996 (aged 83)
Political party Scottish Conservative Party
Other political
affiliations
Unionist Party (until 1965)
Education Eton
Alma mater Christ Church, Oxford
Military service
Allegiance  United Kingdom
Service/branch  British Army
Rank Major
Unit Scots Guards
Battles/wars World War II

John Adrian Louis Hope, 1st Baron Glendevon PC (7 April 1912 – 18 January 1996), known as Lord John Hope from 1912 to 1964, was a Scottish Tory politician. Hope was the younger son of Victor Alexander John Hope, 2nd Marquess of Linlithgow, and Doreen Maud Milner. His elder twin brother was Charles William Frederick Hope, 3rd Marquess of Linlithgow. He was educated at Eton and Christ Church, Oxford and served in the Second World War in Norway and Italy with the Scots Guards, achieving the rank of temporary Major. He was twice mentioned in despatches.

In 1945 Hope was elected Member of Parliament for Midlothian and Peebles North, a seat he held until 1950, and then represented Edinburgh Pentlands from 1950 to 1964. Hope served in the Conservative administrations of Winston Churchill, Anthony Eden and Harold Macmillan as Joint Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs from 1954 to 1956, as Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Commonwealth Relations from 1956 to 1957 and as Joint Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Scotland from 1957 to 1959. In 1959 he was appointed Minister of Works and invested a Privy Counsellor. Hope remained as head of the Ministry of Works until 1962. In 1964 he was raised to the peerage as Baron Glendevon, of Midhope in the County of Linlithgow.

Lord Glendevon married Elizabeth Paravicini (1915–1998), the former wife of Vincent Paravicini and the only child of the author W. Somerset Maugham, in 1948. They had two sons. Lord Glendevon died on 18 January 1996, aged 83, and was succeeded in the barony by his eldest son, Julian.

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    Parliament of the United Kingdom
    Preceded by
    Sir David King Murray
    Member of Parliament for Midlothian & Peebles North
    19451950
    Constituency abolished
    New constituency Member of Parliament for Edinburgh Pentlands
    19501964
    Succeeded by
    Norman Russell Wylie
    Political offices
    Preceded by
    Anthony Nutting
    Douglas Dodds-Parker
    Joint Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State
    for Foreign Affairs
    with Robin Turton 1954–1955
    Douglas Dodds-Parker 1955–1956

    1954–1956
    Succeeded by
    Douglas Dodds-Parker
    William David Ormsby-Gore
    Preceded by
    Allan Noble
    Under-Secretary of State
    for Commonwealth Relations

    1956–1957
    Succeeded by
    Cuthbert Alport
    Preceded by
    James Henderson Stewart
    Jack Nixon Browne
    Niall Macpherson
    Joint Under-Secretary of State for Scotland
    with Jack Nixon Browne 1957–1959
    Niall Macpherson 1957–1959

    1957–1959
    Succeeded by
    Niall Macpherson
    Tam Galbraith
    Gilmour Leburn
    Preceded by
    Hugh Molson
    Minister of Works
    1959–1962
    Succeeded by
    Geoffrey Rippon
    Peerage of the United Kingdom
    New creation Baron Glendevon
    1964–1996
    Succeeded by
    Julian John Somerset Hope