Hope-Scott, JAMES

Hope-Scott, JAMES, third son of the Hon. Sir Alexander Hope, and grandson of the second Earl of Hopetoun, was born at Marlow in 1812, and from Éton proceeded to Christ Church, Oxford. He contented himself with a pass degree (1832), but got a fellowship at Merton; and, called to the bar in 1838, soon made a great parliamentary practice. In 1847 he married Miss Lockhart, on whose succession six years later to Abbotsford he assumed the additional surname of Scott; and in 1851 both he and his wife were admitted into the Roman communion. He died in London, 29th April 1873. His Life by Robert Ornsby (2 vols. 1884) is specially interesting for the glimpses it gives of men like Newman and Gladstone.