Thomas Hope (politician)
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Capt Thomas Hope was the Tory
MP for Linlithgowshire
, winning it in the 1893 by-election and resigning it in 1895. In Freemasonry
, he was also Provincial Grand Master of the Provincial Grand Lodge of Linlithgowshire from 1894 to 1904http://www.pgllinlithgowshire.co.uk/offbear.html.
Tory
Toryism is a traditionalist and conservative political philosophy which grew out of the Cavalier faction in the Wars of the Three Kingdoms. It is a prominent ideology in the politics of the United Kingdom, but also features in parts of The Commonwealth, particularly in Canada...
MP for Linlithgowshire
Linlithgowshire (UK Parliament constituency)
Linlithgowshire was a county constituency of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1708 to 1945. It elected one Member of Parliament by the first past the post voting system....
, winning it in the 1893 by-election and resigning it in 1895. In Freemasonry
Freemasonry
Freemasonry is a fraternal organisation that arose from obscure origins in the late 16th to early 17th century. Freemasonry now exists in various forms all over the world, with a membership estimated at around six million, including approximately 150,000 under the jurisdictions of the Grand Lodge...
, he was also Provincial Grand Master of the Provincial Grand Lodge of Linlithgowshire from 1894 to 1904http://www.pgllinlithgowshire.co.uk/offbear.html.