James Fitzalan Hope, 1st Baron Rankeillour, PC (11 December 1870 – 14 February 1949), was a British

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politician. He served as

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from 1921 to 1924 and again from 1924 to 1929.

Background and education

A member of the Hope family now headed by the Marquess of Linlithgow, Hope was the third but only surviving son of J. R. Hope-Scott, of

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, and Lady Victoria Alexandrina Fitzalan-Howard, eldest daughter of

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. He was educated at

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and at

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Political career

Hope was Conservative

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for Sheffield Brightside from 1900 to 1906 and for Sheffield Central from 1908 to 1929. He was appointed a member of the Teachers′ Registration Council in late 1902. Hope served under

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from 1915 to 1916 and under

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as a

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from 1916 to 1919 and as Parliamentary and Financial Secretary to the Ministry of Munitions from 1919 to 1921, when that office was abolished. He was

(Deputy-Speaker of the House of Commons) from 1921 until February 1924 and again from December 1924 until 1929, when he fought and lost Walthamstow East. He was sworn of the

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in the

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and raised to the peerage as Baron Rankeillour, of Buxted in the County of Sussex, in 1932.

Family

Lord Rankeillour married, firstly, Mabel Helen Riddell, youngest daughter of Francis Henry Riddell, in 1892. They had three sons (two of whom succeeded in turn to the Barony) and one daughter. After his first wife's death in 1938, he married Lady Beatrice Minnie Ponsonby Moore, only daughter of Ponsonby William Moore, 9th Earl of Drogheda, and widow of Struan Robertson Kerr-Clark, in 1941. He died in February 1949, aged 78, and was succeeded by his eldest son,

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. Lady Rankeillour died in May 1966. Their younger son, Henry John, succeeded his brother to the title and estate in 1958.

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