Peter St Thomas More Henry Hope, 4th Baron Rankeillour (29 May 1935 — 12 April 2005) was a Scottish landowner, farmer, and member of the House of Lords.
The son of Henry Hope, 3rd Baron Rankeillour (1899–1967), and a direct descendant of Sir Thomas Hope, 1st Baronet (1573–1646) and Charles Hope, 1st Earl of Hopetoun (1681–1742),[1] he was educated at Ampleforth College and succeeded his father as Baron Rankeillour in 1967, also inheriting an estate based at Achaderry House, Roy Bridge, Inverness-shire. In the Lords, he chose to sit as a Conservative.[2]
He was an inventor of agricultural and horticultural equipment and stated his recreations as country pursuits and large-scale landscaping. A keen yachtsman, in 1992 he was Rear Commodore of the House of Lords Yacht Club.[2]
Rankeillour died a bachelor and was succeeded by a cousin, Michael Richard Hope (born 1940).[1]
Notes
edit- ^ a b Rankeillour, Baron (UK, 1932) at cracroftspeerage.co.uk, accessed 8 April 2020
- ^ a b Dod's Parliamentary Companion, Issue 173 (Dod's Parliamentary Companion Limited, 1992), p. 258
External links
edit- Peter Thomas More Hope, 4th Baron Rankeillour at National Gallery web site