Sir Thomas Hope of Rankeillor, 8th Baronet

Biographical Summary

"Sir Thomas Hope, Baronet [S 1628] of Rankeillor, cousin and heir male, being 2nd but 1st surviving son and heir of Sir Archibald Hope of Rankeillor, by Margaret, daughter of Sir John Aytoun, of Aytoun, which Archibald, who was a Lord of Session [S], 1669, under the designation of Lord Rankeillor, and who died 10 October 1706, aged 67, was younger son of the 2nd Baronet. He was admitted Advocate [S] 8 July 1701; was M.P. [S] for Fifeshire 1706-07; succeeded to the Baronetcy, when very old, 5 June 1766. He was a great agriculturist and in his honour Hope Park, near Edinburgh, was so named. He married 16 March 1702, Margaret, 1st daughter of James Lowis, of Merchiston. He died 17 April 1771."

SOURCE: Complete baronetage; Cokayne, George E. (George Edward); 1900; Vol. II; page 344