Alexander Beresford Hope

Alexander James Beresford Hope ( * January 25, 1820, † October 20, 1887 ) was a British politician and writer.

Alexander James Beresford Hope, son of Thomas Hope, belonged to the so-called party of boys England and made himself early by his zeal for the restoration of the old English church monuments noticeable.

Since 1841 Member of Parliament for Maidstone, he fell in 1852 and 1859 when the new elections by, but was elected in 1865 by a new for Stoke- upon- Trent and was in Parliament, representatives of the University of Cambridge since 1868.

Lord Beaconsfield appointed him in 1880 as a member of the State Council. Hope was in all things of highly conservative attitude and one of the intransigent representatives of the English High Church. He published:

  • Essays (1844 );
  • English cathedrals in the XIX. century ( 1861);
  • The social and political bearings of the American disruption (1863 );
  • Cathedrals In Their missionary aspects (1872 );
  • Hints towards peace in ceremonial matters (1874 );
  • Worship in the church of England ( 1874); the novels
  • Strictly tied -up (1880 ) and
  • The Brandreth (1882 );
  • Worship and order (1883 ) and Others
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