Peter Hope, 4th Baron Rankeillour
{{Short description|Scottish landowner, farmer and member of the House of Lords}}
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Peter St Thomas More Henry Hope, 4th Baron Rankeillour (29 May 1935 — 12 April 2005) was a Scottish landowner, farmer, and member of the House of Lords.
The son of Henry Hope, 3rd Baron Rankeillour (1899–1967), and a direct descendant of Sir Thomas Hope, 1st Baronet (1573–1646) and Charles Hope, 1st Earl of Hopetoun (1681–1742),[http://www.cracroftspeerage.co.uk/rankeillour1932.htm Rankeillour, Baron (UK, 1932)] at cracroftspeerage.co.uk, accessed 8 April 2020 he was educated at Ampleforth College and succeeded his father as Baron Rankeillour in 1967, also inheriting an estate based at Achaderry House, Roy Bridge, Inverness-shire. In the Lords, he chose to sit as a Conservative.Dod's Parliamentary Companion, Issue 173 (Dod's Parliamentary Companion Limited, 1992), p. 258
He was an inventor of agricultural and horticultural equipment and stated his recreations as country pursuits and large-scale landscaping. A keen yachtsman, in 1992 he was Rear Commodore of the House of Lords Yacht Club.
Rankeillour died a bachelor and was succeeded by a cousin, Michael Richard Hope (born 1940).
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- [https://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/person/mp87466/peter-thomas-more-hope-4th-baron-rankeillour Peter Thomas More Hope, 4th Baron Rankeillour] at National Gallery web site
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