Louis Hope
{{short description|Australian politician}}
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{{Infobox officeholder
|honorific-prefix =
|name = Louis Hope
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|image = Captain Louis Hope - Queensland politician.jpg
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| office1 = Member of the Queensland Legislative Council
| term_start1 = 24 April 1862
| term_end1 = 1 November 1882
|birth_date = {{Birth date|1817|10|19|df=y}}
|birth_place = Linlithgow, Scotland
|death_date = {{death date and age|1894|8|15|1817|10|19|df=y}}
|death_place = Geneva, Switzerland
|restingplace =
|birthname = Louis Hope
|nationality = Scottish Australian
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|spouse = Susan Frances Sophia Dumaresq (m.1859 d.1901)
| known_for =
| occupation = Pastoralist
| relations = John Hope, 4th Earl of Hopetoun (father), William Dumaresq (father-in-law)
| alma_mater =
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Louis Hope (19 October 1817 – 15 August 1894) was a Member of the Queensland Legislative Council.{{cite web|title=Former Members|publisher=Parliament of Queensland|year=2015|url=http://www.parliament.qld.gov.au/members/former/bio?id=1349697840|accessdate=5 March 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150402151915/http://www.parliament.qld.gov.au/members/former/bio?id=1349697840|archive-date=2 April 2015|url-status=live}}
Early years
Hope was born in Linlithgow, Scotland in 1817 to General John Hope, 4th Earl of Hopetoun, and his wife Louisa Dorothea (née Wedderburn). After finishing his education he joined the Coldstream Guards, rising to the rank of Captain.{{cite web |title=Historic Ormiston House |url=https://ormistonhouse.org.au/captain-the-hon-louis-hope/ |access-date=21 December 2021}}{{Citation |last=Morrison |first=A. A. |title=Louis Hope (1817–1894) |work=Australian Dictionary of Biography |url=https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/hope-louis-3791 |access-date=2024-06-16 |place=Canberra |publisher=National Centre of Biography, Australian National University |language=en}}
In 1843 he arrived in New South Wales. Hope moved to Moreton Bay in 1848 and purchased land at Ormiston in 1853 where he established his Ormiston House Estate. In 1854 he purchased land which eventually equaled 364 housing lots at Norman Park. That same year, along with Robert Ramsay, he took up Kilcoy Station, eventually becoming its sole owner in 1863.
Hope applied Melenesian labour to his twenty acres of sugar cane at Ormiston, and later on his farm near the Coomera River, which labourers had been recruited through the practice known as Blackbirding.{{cite web| last = E. V. Stevens |title= A brief history of the South Sea Islands Labour Traffic and the vessels engaged in it. (Paper read at the meeting of the Historical Society of Queensland, Inc.)|publisher= The University of Queensland|page=|date = 23 March 1950|url= https://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:212739/s18378366_1950_4_3_361.pdf | accessdate=19 March 2024}}{{Page needed|date=March 2024}} Hope was also involved in Sugar mills, opening a mill at Ormiston.
Politics
Hope was appointed to the Queensland Legislative Council on 24 April 1862. He served for twenty years until he resigned on 1 November 1882 to return to Scotland.
Personal life
File:Mrs Louis Hope, Ormiston House.tiff
Hope married Susan Frances Sophia Dumaresq, daughter of William Dumeresq, in Sydney in 1859 and together they had 8 children. He returned to England to live in Hazlewood, Derbyshire and died in Geneva, Switzerland in 1894.
Legacy
His Ormiston House Estate and its St Andrew's Church are both heritage-listed.{{cite QHR|15550|Ormiston House Estate|600775|accessdate=1 August 2014}}{{cite QHR|15549|St Andrews Church|600774|accessdate=1 August 2014}} The grounds of Ormiston House have a cairn commemorating Louis Hope's contribution to the sugar industry.{{cite web|title=Louis Hope|url=http://monumentaustralia.org.au/themes/people/industry/display/96481-louis-hope|website=Monument Australia|accessdate=5 April 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150419195602/http://monumentaustralia.org.au/themes/people/industry/display/96481-louis-hope|archive-date=19 April 2015|url-status=live}}
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Category:Members of the Queensland Legislative Council
Category:People from Linlithgow
Category:Nobility from West Lothian
Category:People from Redland City