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Rh appointments were, 16 Sept. and 3 Oct. 1827, to the 42, Capt. Wm. Skipsey, and 46, Capt. Augustus Wm. Jas. Clifford, in the latter of which ships he escorted Lord Wm. Bentinck as Governor-General to India, and hrought home Major-General Bourke, late Lieut.-Governor of the Cape. He became, in Aug. 1829, Flag-Lieutenant to Lord Northesk, Commander-in-Chief at Plymouth; and, obtaining a second promotal commission 26 Feb. 1830, Capt. Hope was, from 13 July, 1833, until paid off in 1838, employed on the North America and West India station in command of the 16. He acquired his present rank on 28 June in the latter year; and, since 13 Dec. 1844, has been Captain of the steam-frigate, on the south-east coast of America. On 20 Nov. 1845, Capt. Hope enacted a conspicuous part in the battle of the Parana, where a hard day’s fighting resulted in the destruction, by the combined squadrons of England and France, of four heavy batteries belonging to General Rosas at Punta Obligado, also of a schooner-of-war carrying 6 guns, and of 24 vessels chained across the river. On that occasion, having volunteered, he gallantly pulled up in his boat and cut the chain which impeded the upward progress of the allies. At the close of the action he landed as Aide-de-Camp to Capt. Chas. Hotham, the Senior British officer, and assisted in giving the coup-de-grace to the defeat of the enemy, whose numbers originally consisted of 3500 men, in cavalry, infantry, and artillery, and whose batteries had mounted 22 pieces of ordnance. As a reward for his conduct he was nominated a C.B. 3 April, 1846.

Capt. Hope is a Magistrate and Deputy-Lieutenant for co. Linlithgow. He married, 16 Aug. 1838, the Hon. Frederica Kinnaird, daughter of Charles, eighth Lord Kinnaird. – Hallett and Robinson.

 HOPE. 

is brother of the present John Minter Hope, Esq., Paymaster and Purser, R.N. (1814); and of Lieut. Thos. Hope (a), R.N. (1825), an officer who entered the service in 1809, and was in almost constant employment from that period until 1838, when he was lost in command of H.M. schooner, with all on board, while working into Spithead.

This officer entered the Navy, 2 Nov. 1814, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the 10, Capt. Thos. Barker Devon, which vessel, after serving in the Channel, escorted Napoleon Buonaparte to St. Helena, and was then sent with despatches to the Isle of France and Calcutta. On joining the 50, Capt. Fras. Augustus Collier, he accompanied an expedition sent, in 1819, against the pirates of the Persian Gulf, where he assisted at the bombardment and destruction of Ras-al-Khyma, their principal stronghold, and was very actively employed both in the gun-boats and on shore. After visiting China and various parts of India, and passing through scenes of great mortality, he returned to England in 1822 on board the 84, a new teak-built ship. Having passed his examination in Nov. of the previous year, he was then appointed Mate of the 74, bearing the broad pendant of Sir Edw. W. C. R. Owen in the West Indies, on which station we find him cruizing in a tender, off the island of Cuba, for the suppression of piracy and the slave-trade. On his arrival home, Mr. Hope attended the Duke of Clarence on a summer cruize in the yacht, Capt. Chas. Adam, and went with the Lords of the Admiralty on a visit of inspection to Plymouth. While next attached, during a period of a few months, to the 10, Capt. Chas. Hope, he served in the North Sea and Channel, and was occasionally detached in the boats of that vessel for the suppression of smuggling. Between Feb. 1825 and Oct. 1826, he again served in the West Indies on board the and  sloops, both commanded by Capt. Wm. Hobson. In the boats of the former vessel he once assisted in taking a slaver; and he was in her at a period of so much sickness that 12 out of 75 were all who were enabled to remain on board. During the whole term of his attachment to the, a period of seven months, Mr. Hope had charge of a watch, and was twice invested with the rank of Acting-Lieutenant. On 11 Dec. 1826, shortly after his rejunction to the, he was promoted to be her First-Lieutenant – a rank in which he was afterwards appointed – 25 May, 1828, to the 18, Capt. Henry Smith – 30 Aug. in the same year, to the  again, Capt. Chas. Deare, with whom he returned home from the West Indies, much impaired in health, and was paid off in the following Nov. – 11 July, 1832 (after many ineffectual attempts to procure employment) to the surveying-vessel, Capt. Rich. Copeland, on the Mediterranean station – and, 15 July, 1836, to the 36, Capts. John Hayes and Dan. Pring. In April, 1833, Lieut. Hope took command of, the boats of the, manned by 36 officers and men, and of a gun-boat with 5 Turks on board, and contrived to effect the capture, near the island of Thasos, not, however, without opposition, of 140 out of a notorious band of 200 armed pirates, who had become the terror of the Grecian Archipelago. Prize was at the same time made of seven of their vessels. In consequence of the detention of Capt. Copeland at Malta from ill health, Lieut. Hope, in the spring of 1836, was entrusted with the duty of navigating the to England. On his arrival he was immediately ordered to Greenock to volunteer men for the fleet. After that service had been accomplished he was paid off 4 June, 1836; and on the next day he received instructions to recommission the. On his removal, as above, to the, we find him employed in experimentally cruizing, also in performing Particular Service, and in carrying troops to North America. In Dec. 1838, having attained the rank of Commander on 28 of the previous June, he went on half-pay, on which he continued until appointed, 10 May, 1839, Second Captain of the 76, Capt. Hon. Wm. Waldegrave. In that ship he was at first stationed off Lisbon, and then sent to the Mediterranean, where he partook of the operations on the coast of Syria, and was present at the bombardment of St. Jean d’Acre. He was in consequence advanced to Post-rank 4 Nov. 1840; and, since Jan. 1841, when he left the, has been on half-pay.

Capt. Hope is in the receipt of a pension of 6l. per annum for a very severe injury he sustained in the left hand, attended with the loss of a finger, while endeavouring, in H.M.S., to clear a seaman, who by some accident had been jammed.

 HOPE. 

, born 10 July, 1810, is third son of Sir John Hope, Bart., of Craighall, co. Fife, by Anne, fourth daughter of the late Sir John Wedderburn, Bart., of Blackness and Ballindean; brother of Lieut. Wm. Hope, of the 71st Regt., and of Jas. Wedderburn Hope, Esq., an officer in the 26th Bombay Native Infantry; and nephew of Wm. Hope, Esq., Master- Attendant at Calcutta, who died in 1837.

This officer entered the Navy 16 Feb. 1825; passed his examination in 1831; obtained his first commission 6 July, 1832; and was successively appointed – 20 Feb. 1833, as Supernumerary-Lieutenant, to the 74, flag-ship in the East Indies of Sir John Gore – 9 Oct. 1833, to the  18, Capt. Fras. Price Blackwood, on the same station – and 14 March, 1837, as First, to the  16, Capt. Thos. Fraser. He served in the latter sloop in North America and the West Indies until promoted to his present rank 23 Nov. 1841; but has not been since employed. – Messrs. Stilwell.

 HOPKINS. 

(b) was born 7 July, 1796, at Milford, co. Pembroke. 