Archibald Hope

Sir Archibald Hope, Lord Rankeillor (1639 – 10 October 1706) was a Scottish advocate and judge, the second son of John Hope, Lord Craighall, the grandfather of the botanist John Hope and the great-grandfather of the chemist Thomas Charles Hope, FRSE.

Early life Archibald Hope was the second son of Sir John Hope, Lord Craighall, 2nd Baronet Hope of Craighall He was the grandson of Sir Thomas Hope, 1st Baronet Hope of Craighall. Sir Thomas Hope, 8th Baronet, Hope of Craighall, succeeded in 1766 upon the death of Sir John Bruce-Hope, the 7th Baronet. Charles of Edinburgh married the eldest daughter of Thomas Boyd whose descendants include David Scott of Dunninald Bethia, married firstly Ninian Lewis or Lowis, secondly Sir William Nairne, 2nd Baronet Nairne of Dunsinane Ann, married Alexander Stevenson, W.S. of Montgreenan Helen, married Patrick Butter, Esq. of Gormack

The later Lords Rankeillour do not descend from Sir Archibald but from a junior branch of Clan Hope descended from the 6th son of the 1st Baronet and now headed by the Marquess of Linlithgow.