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Authorised form of nameBeresford-Hope; Alexander James Beresford (1820 - 1887)
Other forms of nameAlexander James Beresford Beresford-
Other forms of surnameHope
Dates1820 - 1887
NationalityBritish
Date of birth25 January 1820
Place of deathHis seat at Bedgebury Park, Cranbook, Kent
Date of death20 October 1887
DatesAndPlacesBurial:
Kilndown, Kent
ActivityEducation:
Harrow School; Trinity College, Cambridge. BA (1841), MA (1844), DCL (1848)
Career:
MP for Maidstone, Kent (1841-1852; 1857-1859); MP for Cambridge University (1868-1887); paid for All Saints Church, Margaret Street, London to be built; co-founded the 'Saturday Review' (1855); Privy Councillor (1880)
Memberships:
Institute of Architects (President 1865-1867)
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election17/06/1880
RelationshipsSon of Thomas Hope (FRS 1804) and his wife Louise Beresford, daughter of the Hon and Rev Wm Beresford; took the additional name Beresford upon inheriting the estates of his stepfather, William Carr Beresford (1854); married (07 July 1842) Lady Mildred Arabella Charlotte Cecil, sister of Robert, 3rd Marquess of Salisbury (FRS 1869)
SourceSources:
Bulloch's Roll; DNB
References:
Vanity Fair 10 September 1870
CodeNA6505
Archives associated with this Fellow
RefNoTitleDate
EC/1880/18Beresford-Hope, Alexander James Beresford: certificate of election to the Royal Society
HSF/1/2/41Letter from A J [Alexander James] Beresford Hope, Arklow House, Connaught Place, to Sir John [Frederick William Herschel]28 July 1862
HS/9/465Letter, from Alexander J. Beresford Hope to Sir John Herschel, dated at Trafalgar Hotel, Spring Gds.1 April 1859
HS/9/471Letter, from Alexander J. Beresford Hope to Sir John Herschel, dated at Bedgebury Park Cranbrook30 August 1867
HS/9/472Letter, from Alexander J. Beresford Hope to Sir John Herschel, dated at British Hotel Cockspur St.8 February 1868
HS/9/469Letter, from Alexander J. Beresford Hope to Sir John Herschel, dated at Arklow Ho. Connaught Place6 June 1860
HS/9/475Letter, from Alexander J. Beresford Hope to Sir John Herschel, dated at Arklow Ho. Connaught Place29 May 1868
HS/9/476Letter, from Alexander J. Beresford Hope to Sir John Herschel, dated at Bedgebury Park, Cranbrook24 December 1870
HS/9/470Letter, from Alexander J. Beresford Hope to Sir John Herschel, dated at Bedgebury Park Cranbrook26 January 1867
HS/9/474Letter, from Alexander J. Beresford Hope to Sir John Herschel, dated at Arklow Ho. Connaught Place14 May 1868
HS/9/466Letter, from Alexander J. Beresford Hope to Sir John Herschel, dated at Bedgebury Park Cranbrook4 January 1860
HS/9/473Letter, from Alexander J. Beresford Hope to Sir John Herschel, dated at British Hotel Cockspur St.10 February 1868
HS/9/467Letter, from Alexander J. Beresford Hope to Sir John Herschel, dated at Bedgebury Park Cranbrook27 January 1860
HS/9/477Letter, from Alexander J. Beresford Hope to Sir John Herschel, dated at Arklow Ho. Connaught Placen.d.
HS/9/468Letter, from Alexander J. Beresford Hope to Sir John Herschel, dated at Arklow Ho. Connaught Place11 April 1860
HS/27/53Incomplete letter, from [Alexander J. Beresford Hope?] to Sir John Herschel, dated at 13 Connaught Place6 July 1842
HS/9/464Letter, from Alexander J. Beresford Hope to Sir John Herschel, dated at Arklow Ho. Connaught Place18 March 1859
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