Harry Hope

Sir Harry Hope, 1st Baronet (24 September 1865 – 29 December 1959) was a Scottish Unionist politician and agriculturalist.

Life The youngest son of James Hope, who farmed extensively in the Lothians, Harry Hope followed in his father's footsteps. He became President of Scottish Chamber of Agriculture in 1908, and in the same year was invited to join the Scottish Agricultural Commission which was invited by the government of the Dominion of Canada to report on the country's agricultural resources.

Hope married Margaret Binnie Hope (née Holms) in 1897, and had children James Hope, Robert Holms-Kerr Hope, and Margaret Ralston Hope.

Hope sat as member of parliament (MP) for Buteshire from 1910 to 1918, Stirlingshire and Clackmannan Western from 1918 to 1922, and Forfar from 1924 to 1931. He was knighted in 1920. In 1932, he was created a Baronet of Kinnettles in the County of Angus.

During the debate on the repeal of the Corn Production Act in July 1921, Hope stated that, ‘The agricultural industry is the mainstay of this country’. By 1921, he owned 4 farms extending to a total of 1400 acres, in the Dunbar area.