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James Robert Hope-Scott ( July 15, 1812 - April 29, 1873) was an English barrister and Tractarian.He was born at Great Marlow, Berkshire, the third son of Sir Alexander Hope, and grandson of the second earl of Hopetoun. He was educated at Eton College and Oxford, where he was a contemporary and friend of William Ewart Gladstone and John Henry Newman. In 1838 he was called to the bar. Between 1840 and 1843he helped to found Trinity College, Glenalmond . He was one of the leaders of the Tractarian movement and entirely in Newman's confidence. In 1851Events January 23 The flip of a coin determines whether a new city in Oregon is named after Boston, Massachusetts, or Portland, Maine, with Portland winning. March 1 Victor Hugo gives speech at the French national assembly and uses the phrase United State he was received with Manning into the Roman Catholic ChurchThe Roman Catholic Church (often called simply the Catholic Church, but see Catholicism for other meanings of the term "Catholic Church") is a worldwide body of Christians in full communion with the Pope, the Bishop of Rome, and subscribing to the beliefs.
At this time he was making a very large income at the Parliamentary bar , He only commenced serious practice in this branch of his profession in 1843, but by the end of 1845Events January 29 The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe is published for the first time New York Evening Mirror . March 1 President John Tyler signs a bill authorizing the United States to annex the Republic of Texas. March 3 Florida is admitted as the 27th U. he stood at the head of it and in 1846Events January 5 The United States House of Representatives votes to stop sharing the Oregon Territory with the United Kingdom February 5 The Oregon Spectator becomes the first newspaper on the Pacific coast of the United States. February 10 Many Mormons was made a Queen's CounselQueen's Counsel ( postnominal QC , during the reign of a male Sovereign known as King's Counsel KC , are barristers appointed by patent to be one of "Her Majesty's Counsel learned in the law". They do not constitute a separate order or degree of lawyers.. In 1847Events January 4 Samuel Colt sells his first revolver pistol to the United States government. January 13 The Treaty of Cahuenga ends the Mexican-American War in California. January 16 John C. Fremont is appointed Governor of the new California Territory. he married Miss Lockhart , granddaughter of Sir Walter Scott, and on her coming into possession of Abbotsford House six years later, he assumed the surname of Hope-Scott . He retired from the bar in 1870.
This article incorporates text from the public domain 1911 Encyclopędia Britannica. 1911 Britannica
Hope-Scott, James
Hope-Scott, James
