John Hope, 1st Baron Glendevon explained

Honorific-Prefix:The Right Honourable
The Lord Glendevon
Honorific-Suffix:PC
Office1:Minister of Works
Term Start1:22 October 1959
Term End1:16 July 1962
Primeminister1:Harold Macmillan
Predecessor1:Hugh Molson
Successor1:Geoffrey Rippon
Office2:Joint Under-Secretary of State for Scotland
Term Start2:18 January 1957
Term End2:22 October 1959
Primeminister2:Harold Macmillan
Office3:Under-Secretary of State for Commonwealth Relations
Term Start3:9 November 1956
Term End3:18 January 1957
Primeminister3:Anthony Eden
Predecessor3:Allan Noble
Successor3:Cuthbert Alport
Office4:Joint Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs
Term Start4:18 October 1954
Term End4:9 November 1956
Primeminister4:Sir Winston Churchill
Anthony Eden
Office8:Member of Parliament
for Edinburgh Pentlands
Term Start8:5 July 1945
Term End8:15 October 1964
Predecessor8:Sir David King Murray
Successor8:Norman Russell Wylie
Birth Date:7 April 1912
Party:Scottish Conservative Party
Otherparty:Unionist Party (until 1965)
Relations:Charles Hope, 3rd Marquess of Linlithgow (twin brother)
Alma Mater:Christ Church, Oxford
Education:Eton
Occupation:Politician
Rank:Major
Unit:Scots Guards
Battles: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 British aristocrat and Tory politician.

Early life

Hope was the younger son of Victor Hope, 2nd Marquess of Linlithgow, and Doreen Maud Milner. His elder twin brother was Charles Hope, 3rd Marquess of Linlithgow. He was educated at Ludgrove, 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.

Political career

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.[1]

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 sworn a Privy Counsellor. Hope remained as head of the Ministry of Works until 1962.[1] In 1964 he was raised to the peerage as Baron Glendevon, of Midhope in the County of Linlithgow.

Personal life

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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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Lord John Hope April 7, 1912 - January 17, 1996 . Historic Hansard . 7 August 2020.