Clan Hope
| Clan Hope | |||
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Crest: A broken terrestrial globe surmounted by a rainbow issuing out of a cloud at each end all Proper.
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| Motto | At Spes Infracta (Yet my hope is unbroken) | ||
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| Region | Lowlands | ||
| District | Fife | ||
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| Sir John Carl Alexander Hope of Craighall, | |||
| 18th Baronet Hope of Craighall | |||
| Seat | Westleigh Avenue, London. | ||
| Historic seat | Craighall, Fife | ||
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Clan Hope is a Lowland Scottish clan.
The surname Hope may be of native Scottish origin, being derived from the Scottish Borders family of Hop or Hoip. In 1296 John de Hop of Peeblesshire and Adam le Houp both appear on the Ragman Rolls submitting to Edward I of England.Alexander Nisbet suggested that the name may be from the H'oublons of Picardy family in France. The French word oublon means hop, which when translated into English becomes Hope.
The immediate ancestor of the principal line of the clan was John de Hope who is said to have come to Scotland from France in 1537 as part of the retinue of Magdalen, the first wife of James V of Scotland.
John married and settled in Edinburgh where he prospered. He had a son named Edward who in 1560 was a commissioner to the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland for Edinburgh.
John's descendant, Sir Thomas Hope, was appointed Lord Advocate by Charles I of England. Thomas acquired the estate of Craighill which is in the parish of Ceres, county of Fife. Craighill became the chief's designation. Sir Thomas was a lawyer whose work Hopes Practicks is still sometimes referred to by Scots lawyers today. He was created a Baronet of Nova Scotia in 1628 and helped draft the National Covenant in 1638. He died in 1646 and his eldest son succeeded to the Baronetcy, taking the title Lord Craighill. He is credited to have advised Charles I of England, while in exile: tret with Cromwell for the one half of his cloak before he lost the whole.
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