Hope family, Marquesses of Linlithgow

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Date:	1300-2000
History:	Sir James Hope (d. 1661) of Hopetoun (West Lothian), a younger son of Sir Thomas Hope of Craighall (Fife), 1st baronet, married Anne, daughter and heiress of Robert Foulis of Leadhills (Lanarkshire). Their descendants acquired estates in West Lothian, Midlothian, East Lothian (Ormiston, Luffness etc.), Fife (Rankeillour, Rosyth etc.) and Dumfriesshire. Charles Hope (1681-1742) was created Earl of Hopetoun in 1703. Craighall (Fife) was purchased from Sir Thomas Bruce Hope of Craighall, 6th baronet, in 1729. The Scottish estates of the Johnstone family, Marquesses of Annandale (see Hope-Johnston of Raehills), were inherited by the 3rd Earl of Hopetoun (1741-1816). On his death they passed to his daughter Anne, whilst the Hopetoun estates passed to his half-brother, Major-General John Hope (1765-1823), who succeeded as 4th Earl. Property in East Lothian (Luffness) and Fife (Rankeillour, Craighall) passed to other branches of the Hope family. The 7th Earl was created Marquess of Linlithgow in 1902. Estates in 1883: 19,180 acres in Lanarkshire; 11,870 acres in West Lothian; 7,967 acres in East Lothian; 2,549 acres in Dumfriesshire and 941 acres in Fife, worth a total of £39,984 a year, exclusive of minerals worth £3,974 a year.
Places:	Airthrey, Stirlingshire Bathgate, West Lothian Castle Campbell, Clackmannanshire Costertoun, Midlothian Craighall, Fife Hildestoun, Lanarkshire Hopetoun, West Lothian Humbie, West Lothian Kensington, Middlesex Kirkliston, West Lothian Leadhills, Lanarkshire Lubenham, Leicestershire Luffness, East Lothian Ormiston, East Lothian Papillon Hall, Leicestershire Priestinch, West Lothian Rankeillour, Fife Rosyth, Fife Wamphray, Dumfriesshire
Sources of authority:	Royal Commission on Historical Manuscripts, Principal family and estate collections, 1996, p. 87.
Name authority reference:	GB/NNAF/F85272 (Former ISAAR ref: GB/NNAF/F8335 )

Collections
Number	Description	Held by	Reference	Further information
1	14th cent-20th cent: Dumfriesshire (Wamphray, etc), East Lothian (Ormiston, etc), Fife (Rankeillour, Rosyth, etc), Lanarkshire (Leadhills), Midlothian (Costertoun, etc) and West Lothian (Bathgate, Hopetoun, Kirkliston, etc) writs, legal papers, rentals, accounts, estate, lead and coal mining corresp and papers and Hope family papers 14th-20th cent, with Airthrey (Stirlingshire) valuation and rentals 1654-72, Castle Campbell (Clackmannanshire) barony rental 1655 and accounts and papers rel to households at Lubenham and Papillon Hall (Leics) 1850-72, etc	Collection held privately: enquiries to National Register of Archives for Scotland	NRAS888	NRA 17684 Hope See HMC Principal family and estate collections A-K, 1996 [53a]
2	16th cent-20th cent: East Lothian (Ormiston, etc), Midlothian (Costertoun, etc) and West Lothian (Hopetoun, etc) writs and estate papers 16th-20th cent, Dumfriesshire (Wamphray, etc) estate papers mainly 18th-19th cent, Lanarkshire (Leadhills, etc) writs, estate and lead mining papers 17th-20th cent and misc Hope family and legal papers 16th-20th cent, incl Kensington household inventory 1854	Collection held privately: enquiries to National Register of Archives for Scotland	NRAS2717	NRA 29885 See HMC Principal family and estate collections A-K, 1996 [53b]
3	c1800-1815: Ormiston (East Lothian) factory accounts	National Records of Scotland (formerly National Archives of Scotland)	GD253/58/12, 202-4, 207	NRA 13863 Campbell See HMC Principal family and estate collections A-K, 1996 [53d]
4	c1797-1816: Fife (Craighall and Rankeillour) estate accounts	National Records of Scotland (formerly National Archives of Scotland)	GD253/208-09	NRA 13863 Campbell
5	17th cent-1816: East Lothian (Luffness) and Fife (Craighall, Rankeillour, etc) writs and estate papers	National Records of Scotland (formerly National Archives of Scotland)	GD364	NRA 10172 Hope
6	1646-1661: Leadhills (Lanarkshire) lead mining diary and letter books of Sir James Hope	University of St Andrews Libraries and Museums, University Collections and Museums Directorate	NRAS219	NRA 10987 See HMC Principal family and estate collections A-K, 1996 [53e]
7	1671-1680: Leadhills (Lanarkshire) mining register	Oxford University: Bodleian Library, Special Collections	MS Eng. misc. e. 186	See HMC Principal family and estate collections A-K, 1996 [53f]
8	18th cent-19th cent: Leadhills (Lanarkshire) barony accounts and Hope family papers	Collection held privately: enquiries to National Register of Archives for Scotland	NRAS2171	NRA 12630 Hope-Johnstone See HMC Principal family and estate collections A-K, 1996 [54a]
9	c1835-1895: West Lothian (Hopetoun, etc) legal and estate papers	Collection held privately: enquiries to National Register of Archives for Scotland	NRAS395	NRA 12273
10	c1835-1895: Hope family legal corresp and papers and West Lothian election papers	Collection held privately: enquiries to National Register of Archives for Scotland	NRAS395	NRA 12273 See HMC Principal family and estate collections A-K, 1996 [53c]
11	1769-1777: agency accounts of the 2nd Earl of Hopetoun (1704-1781)	National Library of Scotland, Manuscript Collections	MS.988	See HMC Principal family and estate collections A-K, 1996 [53g]
12	1759-1768: Hopetoun accounts	National Library of Scotland, Manuscript Collections	MS.9238
13	1936-1943: Indian corresp and papers of the 2nd Marquess of Linlithgow (1887-1952)	British Library: Asian and African Studies	MSS Eur F 125	NRA 20532 See HMC Principal family and estate collections A-K, 1996 [53h]