Politics
Hope first stood for Parliament at West Perthshire at the 1895 general election but could not remove the sitting Liberal Unionist MP Sir Donald Currie. However he was successful in being returned as Liberal MP for West Fife in succession to Augustine Birrell in the Khaki election of 1900 and he held the seat until the general election of December 1910 when he lost to the Labour candidate William Adamson the Secretary of the Fife Miners’ Association.
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