John Hope (Liberal politician)
John Deans Hope (8 May 1860 – 13 December 1949) was a Scottish Liberal Party politician.
Family and education
Hope was born in Duddington,
Career
By profession Hope was a
Politics
Hope first stood for Parliament at West Perthshire at the 1895 general election but could not remove the sitting Liberal Unionist MP Sir Donald Currie.
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal Unionist | Donald Currie | 3,379 | |||
Liberal | John Hope | 3,087 | |||
Majority | |||||
Turnout | |||||
Liberal Unionist hold | Swing |
However he was successful in being returned as Liberal MP for West Fife in succession to Augustine Birrell in the Khaki election of 1900
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal | John Hope | 4,352 | 64.7 | ||
Conservative | G W Ralston | 2,374 | 35.3 | ||
Majority | 1,978 | 29.4 | |||
Turnout | 6,726 | 60.0 | -12.2 | ||
Liberal hold | Swing |
Shortly after his election, Hope was described in Dod's Parliamentary Companion as a Radical who was opposed to Imperialism. This was shorthand for being opposed to the Boer War.[4]
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal | John Hope | 6,692 | 79.0 | ||
Liberal Unionist
|
Nelson B Constable | 1,776 | 21.0 | ||
Majority | 4,916 | 58.0 | |||
Turnout | 8,468 | 55.4 | -4.6 | ||
Liberal hold | Swing |
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal | John Hope | 6,159 | 47.8 | ||
Labour | William Adamson | 4,736 | 37.7 | ||
Conservative | G W Ralston | 1,994 | 15.5 | ||
Majority | 1,423 | 11.1 | |||
Turnout | 12,889 | 73.1 | +17.7 | ||
Liberal hold | Swing |
and he held the seat until the general election of December 1910 when he lost to the Labour candidate William Adamson the Secretary of the Fife Miners’ Association.[5]
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Labour | William Adamson | 6,128 | 53.0 | ||
Liberal | John Hope | 5,425 | 47.0 | ||
Majority | 703 | 6.0 | |||
Turnout | 11,553 | 61.4 | -11.7 | ||
Labour gain from Liberal | Swing |
Return to Parliament
Hope did not have long to wait before getting the chance to return to Parliament as in 1911 the MP for Haddingtonshire, Richard Haldane, was made a Viscount and went to the House of Lords and Hope was chosen by the local Liberals to succeed him.[6] In the by-election that followed Hope emerged the winner with 3,652 votes to the 3,184 of the Unionist candidate B Hall Blyth – a respectable majority of 468 (albeit a decrease on the last election of over 200).
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
Liberal | John Hope | 3,652 | 53.4 | -1.5 | |
Conservative | Benjamin Hall Blyth | 3,184 | 46.6 | +1.5 | |
Majority | |||||
Turnout | |||||
Liberal hold | Swing |
In his victory speech at Haddington Assembly Rooms, Hope said that East Lothian had been true to the cause of freedom, liberty and justice and had given a decisive verdict against the veto of the House of Lords (a reference to the ongoing struggle originating with the
Haddingtonshire constituency was abolished in 1918 and Hope was adopted for one of its successor constituencies
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
National Liberal
|
John Hope | 8,584 | |||
Labour | R.W. Foulis | 4,783 | |||
Liberal
|
Harold Tennant | 2,567 | |||
Majority | |||||
Turnout | |||||
National Liberal hold
|
Swing |
Out of Parliament
At the
Party | Candidate | Votes | % | ±% | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
National Liberal | Walter Waring
|
6,342 | |||
Labour | Robert Spence | 5,842 | |||
Liberal
|
William Henderson Pringle | 4,422 | |||
Independent Liberal | John Hope | 3,300 | |||
Majority | |||||
Turnout | |||||
National Liberal hold | Swing |
It was the end of Hope's Parliamentary career as Waring won the contest.
References
- ^ Who was Who, OUP 2007
- ^ Who's who: An Annual Biographical Dictionary, Henry Robert Addison, Charles Henry Oakes, William John Lawson, Douglas Brooke Wheelton Sladen; A. & C. Black, 1903, p676
- ^ Newnham College Register, 1871-1950, Cambridge
- ^ Dod's Parliamentary Companion 1901
- ^ The Times, 21.4.11
- ^ The Times, 14.4.11
- ^ The Times, 21.4.11
- ^ "Liberal Democrat History Group". Archived from the original on 29 July 2010. Retrieved 26 December 2008.
- ^ The Times, 5.12.18
- ^ Whitaker's Almanack, 1920
- ^ Who was Who
- ^ M Kinnear, The Fall of Lloyd George: The Political Crisis of 1922; University of Toronto Press, 1973 p247
- ^ The Times, 6.11.22
- ^ The Times, 17 November 1922
External links
- Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by John Hope