James Louis Alexander Hope
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 as Whitney Court, Hereford; high sheriff of Herefordshire, 1901.
Sources: Burke’s peerage 2003 s.v. Linlithgow Hope 1872 Mr J. N. Hope, personal communication
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