James Hope-Scott

James Robert Hope-Scott (15 July 1812 – 29 April 1873) was a British barrister and Tractarian.

Early life and conversion Born at Great Marlow, in the county of Buckinghamshire, and christened James Robert, Hope was the third son of General Sir Alexander Hope and his wife Georgina Alicia (d. 1855), third and youngest daughter of George Brown of Ellerton, Roxburghshire. He was a grandson of John Hope, 2nd Earl of Hopetoun. After a childhood spent at the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, of which his father was Governor, he was educated at Eton College and Christ Church, Oxford, where he was a contemporary and friend of William Ewart Gladstone and John Henry Newman. In 1838 Hope was called to the bar at Lincoln's Inn. Between 1840 and 1843 he helped to found Trinity College, Glenalmond, now renamed Glenalmond College. In 1841, he published an attack on the Anglican-German Bishopric in Jerusalem, and further defended the "value of the science of canon law, in a pamphlet. Edward Bouverie Pusey also valued Hope's advice and canvassed him in 1842 before publishing the Letter to the Archbishop of Canterbury on some Circumstances connected with the Present Crisis in the Church. Hope supported publication. which started the process of distancing Hope, Badeley, Manning and Wilberforce from the Anglican Church.

In 1851, Hope was received with Manning into the Roman Catholic Church.

Ormsby believed that Hope found some distraction from his frustration with the Anglican Church through his secular work. though in 1855 Hope-Scott conducted the negotiations which ended in Newman's accepting the rectorship of the Catholic University of Ireland. His wife died on 26 October 1858. Mary Monica (born 2 October 1852) m. Joseph Constable Maxwell, third son of William, Lord Herries In 1861, he married secondly to Lady Victoria Alexandrina Fitzalan-Howard, a daughter of the 14th Duke of Norfolk. in particular in making an abridgement of his father-in-law's seven-volume biography of Scott, with a preface dedicated to Gladstone. Hope-Scott maintained a lifelong correspondence with Badeley.