- James Hope-Scott
James Robert Hope-Scott (
July 15 ,1812 -April 29 ,1873 ) was an Englishbarrister and Tractarian.Early life and conversion
Born at
Great Marlow ,Berkshire and christened James Robert Hope, he was the third son of Sir Alexander Hope, and grandson ofJohn Hope, 2nd Earl of Hopetoun . After a childhood spent at the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, of which his father was commander, he was educated atEton College andChrist Church, Oxford , where he was a contemporary and friend ofWilliam Ewart Gladstone and John Henry Newman. In 1838 he wascalled to the bar atLincoln's Inn . Between 1840 and 1843 he helped to found Trinity College,Glenalmond . In 1840-41 he spent some eight months inItaly ,Rome included, in company with his close friendEdward Louth Badeley .On his return he became, with Newman, one of the foremost promoters of the
Tractarian movement atOxford and entirely in Newman's confidence. [Anon.] (1911) "James Hope-Scott", "Encyclopedia Britannica "] In 1841, he published an attack on theAnglican-German Bishopric in Jerusalem , and further defended the "value of the science ofcanon law , in a pamphlet.Ornsby (1884) Ch.XVIII] [Hope (1842)]Edward Bouverie Pusey also valued Hope's advice and canvassed him in 1842 before publishing the "Letter to the Archbishop of Canterbury on some Circumstances connected with the Present Crisis in the Church". Hope supported publication.Along with other
Anglo-Catholic s, Hope was disturbed by theGorham judgment and, on 12 March 1850, a meeting was held at his house inCurzon Street ,London which was attended by fourteen leading Tractarians including: Badeley,Henry Edward Manning andArchdeacon Robert Isaac Wilberforce . They eventually published a series of resolutions [ cite book | title=Annals of the Tractarian Movement, from 1842 to 1860 | edition=3rd edition | author=Browne, E. G. K. | location=London | publisher=privately published | year=1861 | pages=191 ] which started the process of distancing Hope, Badeley, Manning and Wilberforce from theAnglican Church .Ornsby (1884) Ch.XXI]In 1851 Hope was received with Manning into the
Roman Catholic Church .Legal practice
On 15 June 1841, Hope wrote to Gladstone:Ornsby (1884) Ch.XXII]
Ormsby believed that Hope found some distraction from his frustration with the Anglican Church through his secular work.
By 1839, Hope was becoming involved in parliamentary work. He was retained as counsel for the British government on the
Foreign Marriages Bill and in 1843, the report on theConsular Jurisdiction Bill . His brother's appointment as Under Secretary of State for the Colonies in SirRobert Peel 's administration may have opened some doors. In 1843-44 he was engaged again by the government in the matter of the aftermath of thePastry War , whose settlement Britain had arbitrated, to prepare a report on some points in dispute betweenFrance andMexico .As an established
ecclesiastical law yer, he was much involved in the Ecclesiastical Courts Bill in 1843 and the same year he took the DCL degree at Oxford. In 1844 anEnglish Criminal Code was under serious consideration andBishop of London Charles James Blomfield recommended Hope to theLord Chancellor John Copley, 1st Baron Lyndhurst as a commissioner to consider offencesagainst religion and the Church. By the end of 1845 he stood at the head of the parliamentary bar but his objections to taking theOath of Supremacy detered him from accepting the professional honour ofQueen's Counsel . In 1849, he therefore askedLord Chancellor Charles Pepys, 1st Earl of Cottenham for, and was granted, apatent of precedence conferring equal status.In 1852 he gave Newman the disastrously misleading legal advice that he was unlikely to be sued for
libel byGiacinto Achilli , advice that led to Newman's criminal conviction fordefamatory libel . Thereafter, Newman relied on Badeley for legal adviceCourtney (2004)] though in 1855 Hope-Scott conducted the negotiations which ended in Newman's accepting therector ship of theCatholic University of Ireland .Personal and family life
In 1847 he married Charlotte Harriet Jane Lockhart, daughter of
John Gibson Lockhart and granddaughter of SirWalter Scott , and, on her coming into possession ofAbbotsford House six years later, he assumed the surname of Hope-Scott. [ [Anon.] (1911) "John Gibson Lockhart", "Encyclopedia Britannica "] After her death on26 October 1858 he married as his second wife in 1861, Lady Victoria Fitzalan-Howard, daughter of the 14th Duke of Norfolk. He retired from the bar in 1870 and spent the rest of his life in charitable and literary work,Boothman (1913)] in particular an abridgment of his father in law's seven volume biography of Scott with a preface dedicated to Gladstone. [Lockhart (1871)] He maintained a life-long correspondence with Badeley.Both his wives died in childbirth. He left an only daughter by his first marriage, Mary Monica (born
2 October 1852 ), later wife of Joseph Constable Maxwell, third son of William, Lord Herries. Two other children of this marriage died in infancy. By his second marriage he left a son, James Fitzalan Hope-Scott (1870-1949), and three daughters. Two other children died young.Murphy (2006)]References
Bibliography
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*Obituaries:
**"The Scotsman ",8 May 1873
**"Edinburgh Courant",8 May 1873
**"The Tablet ",10 May 1873
**"Law Times",10 May 1873
**"The Month", 19 (1873), 274–91 ----
* [Anon.] (1911) " [http://www.1911encyclopedia.org/James_Robert_Hope-Scott James Robert Hope-Scott] ", "Encyclopedia Britannica "
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* Courtney, W. P., rev. G. Martin Murphy (2004) " [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/1019 Badeley, Edward Lowth (1803/4–1868)] ", "Oxford Dictionary of National Biography ", Oxford University Press, accessed 22 July 2007 ODNBsub
* cite book | author=Hope, J. R. | year=1842 | title=The Bishopric of the United Church of England and Ireland at Jerusalem, Considered in a Letter to a Friend | location=London | publisher=C. J. Stewart | edition=2nd ed. revised
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*Murphy, G. M. (2006) " [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/13741 Scott, James Robert Hope- (1812–1873)] ", "Oxford Dictionary of National Biography ", Oxford University Press, online edn, accessed 23 July 2007 ((ODNBsub
* cite book | title= [http://www.gutenberg.org/etext/7975 Memoirs of James Robert Hope-Scott, with Selections from His Correspondence] | author=Ormsby, R. (ed.) | edition=2 vols. | year=1884 | location=London | publisher=John Murray
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