Capt Thomas Hope (3 February 1848 – 28 March 1925) was the

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MP for

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, winning it in the 1893 by-election and resigning it in 1895. In

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, he was also Provincial Grand Master of the Provincial Grand Lodge of

from 1894 to 1904. Thomas Hope was elected to the newly created Linlithgowshire County Council (for Torphichen Parish) in 1889 and became its first County Convener.

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* 1848 births 1925 deaths Scottish Freemasons Scottish Tory MPs (pre-1912) UK MPs 1892–1895 19th-century Scottish people {{Conservative-UK-MP-1840s-stub