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.
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.
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.
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.