Biographical Summary

"Thomas Hope, one of the most eminent members of his family, was a son of Henry Hope, but the exact date of his birth is not known. Like his brother James he became a 'servitor', or what we should not call a clerk or pupil, to Mr John Nicholson of Lasswade, and as such witnessed two charters by Sir Patrick Murray of Geaness at Edinburgh 28 February 1601...

...He married, in or before 1602, Elizabeth, daughter of John Bennet of Wallyford, and had by her fourteen children."

SOURCE: The Scots peerage, Vol. IV, page 487