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e="margin: 0.5em 0px; line-height: inherit;">Sir John Hope, Lord Craighall (1605?–1654) was a Scottish judge. solid #a2a9b1; font-size: 13.3px; display: table; -ms-zoom: 1; background-color: #f8f9fa;">0px; border: 0px currentColor; color: #000000; line-height: 1.3; overflow: hidden; font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13.3px; font-weight: bold; display: inline;">Contentsin: 0.3em 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; list-style-type: none; list-style-image: none;">0080; text-decoration: none;" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Hope,_Lord_Craighall#Life">1Life1em;">2Familyoclevel-1 tocsection-3">3Referencesedia.org/wiki/John_Hope,_Lord_Craighall#External_links">4External links00; line-height: 1.3; overflow: hidden; font-family: 'Linux Libertine', Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 1.5em; font-weight: normal; border-bottom-color: #a2a9b1; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid;">Life[edit]kground: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="Sir Thomas Hope of Craighall, 1st Baronet" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sir_Thomas_Hope_of_Craighall,_1st_Baronet">Sir Thomas Hope of Craighall, 1st Baronet, by Elizabeth, daughter of John Bennet of Wallyford in Haddingtonshire; Sir James Hope (1614–1661) of Hopetoun, was his younger brother. In 1619 the family acquired and moved to Granton Castle just north-west of Edinburgh.[1] appointed an ordinary lord of session. He assumed the title of Lord Craighall, and took his seat on 27 July.[2]olor: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" title="General Assembly of the Church of Scotland" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Assembly_of_the_Church_of_Scotland">General Assembly. In 1640 he was placed on the committee of estates appointed to provide for the defence of the kingdom against Charles I; was reappointed ordinary lord of session in the following year; and in 1644 was made one of the commissioners for the visitation of St. Andrews, the plantation of kirks, the administration of the exchequer and the excise.ather died and he inherited Granton Castle and its estates.states for advising the king to surrender Scotland and Ireland to Oliver Cromwell, and quoted Lord Craighall to the effect that it would be wise in the king to "treat with Cromwell for one-half of his coat before he lost the whole". In May 1652 Craighall was appointed one of Cromwell's committee, consisting of five English and three Scotch judges, for the administration of justice.[2]e-height: 1; font-size: 11.2px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; white-space: nowrap;">[2]ibertine', Georgia, Times, serif; font-size: 1.5em; font-weight: normal; border-bottom-color: #a2a9b1; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid;">Family[edit] class="reference">[3][4] After her death in childbirth on 3 October 1641, Hope married Dame Rachel Speir, Lady Currichill, on 7 December 1643.[4]erit;">By his first wife, Hope had two sons and six daughters.[3] The elder son, Thomas, born on 11 February 1633, was grandfather of Sir John Hope Bruce, 7th baronet, with whom his line became extinct. The second son, Archibald Hope (1639–1706), was Lord of Session in 1689, and Lord of Justiciary in 1690. He took the title of Lord Rankeillor, and was M.P. for Fifeshire from 25 April 1706 till his death on 10 October that year. The baronetcy continued through his line when Sir Thomas Hope, 8th Baronet assumed the baronetcy on the death of his cousin, Sir John Hope Bruce, 7th Baronet.[5]ohn Hope (botanist)" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Hope_(botanist)">John Hope the botanist was his grandson.[2]a, Times, serif; font-size: 1.5em; font-weight: normal; border-bottom-color: #a2a9b1; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid;">References[edit]padding: 0px; font-size: 12.6px; list-style-type: inherit; list-style-image: none;">g>^Stranger on the Shore, James Gracie, p.21background: none; color: #0b0080; text-decoration: none;" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Hope,_Lord_Craighall#cite_ref-DNB_2-0">Jump up to:ab ;cdLee, Sidney, ed. (1891). "Hope, John (1605?-1654)" . Dictionary of National Biography. 27. London: Smith, Elder & Co.lass="mw-cite-backlink">^ Jump up to:abMatthew Forster Conolly (1866). "Biographical dictionary of eminent men of Fife of past and present. Google Books. Inglis & Jack. p. 234. Retrieved 27 May 2017."margin-bottom: 0.1em;">^ Jump up to:abSir Thomas Hope (1893). Twenty-four Letters, 1627-1646 Scotland: Scottish History Society. p. 130. Retrieved 27 January 2018.rgin-bottom: 0.1em;">^Sir Robert Douglas (1798). The Baronage of Scotland. Edinburgh, Scotland. pp. 58–61. Retrieved 23 July 2017.ttributionsource-logo.svg"> This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Lee, Sidney, ed. (1891). "Hope, John (1605?-1654)". Dictionary of National Biography. 27. 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