James Louis Alexander Hope
1843–1904
Landowner. Assisted his uncle, Louis Hope, son of General Sir John Hope, fourth earl of Hopetoun (Australian dictionary of biography), in promoting the sugar industry in Queensland, Australia. Wrote In quest of coolies (1872), describing his expedition to secure labour for the sugar plantations from the New Hebrides (Vanuatu). Served as a Red Cross doctor on the Turkish side in the 1877 Russo-Turkish War. Settled at Whitney Court, Hereford; high sheriff of Herefordshire, 1901.
Sources
Burke’s peerage 2003, s.v. Linlithgow
Hope 1872
Mr J. N. Hope, personal communication.
Bibliography
Burke’s peerage: A genealogical and heraldic dictionary of the peerage and baronetage of the United Kingdom. Burke’s peerage and baronetage. 1st– edition. London: Henry Colburn [and others]. 1826–.
Hope, James Louis Alexander. 1872. In quest of coolies. London: King.
