John Hope, 1st Baron Glendevon

John Adrian Louis Hope, 1st Baron Glendevon, PC (7 April 1912 – 18 January 1996), was a Scottish Tory politician.

Known as Lord John Hope from 1912 to 1964, he was the younger son of Victor Alexander John Hope, 2nd Marquess of Linlithgow and Doreen Maud Milner. His elder twin brother was Charles William Frederick Hope, 3rd Marquess of Linlithgow. Hope was educated at Eton College and Christ Church, Oxford and served in the Second World War in Norway and Italy with the Scots Guards, achieving the rank of temporary Major and twice mentioned in dispatches.

In 1945 he was elected Member of Parliament for Midlothian and Peebles North, then for Edinburgh Pentlands from 1950 to 1964. Hope served in the Conservative administrations of Winston Churchill, Anthony Eden and Harold Macmillan as Joint Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs from 1954 to 1956, as Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Commonwealth Relations from 1956 to 1957 and as Joint Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Scotland from 1957 to 1959. In 1959 he was appointed Minister of Works and invested a Privy Counsellor. Hope remained as head of the Ministry of Works until 1962. In 1964 he was raised to the peerage as Baron Glendevon, of Midhope in the County of Linlithgow.

In 1948 Hope married Elizabeth Paravicini (1915–1998), the former wife of Vincent Paravicini and the only child of the author W. Somerset Maugham. They had two sons.

Lord Glendevon died on 18 January 1996, aged 83. He was succeeded as Baron Glendevon by his eldest son, Julian.

Preceded by: Arthur Hugh Elsdale Molson	Minister of Works 1959–1962	Succeeded by: Geoffrey Rippon

Preceded by: New Creation	Baron Glendevon 1964–1996	Succeeded by: Julian John Somerset Hope

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