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Authorised form of name	Beresford-Hope; Alexander James Beresford (1820 - 1887)
Other forms of name	Alexander James Beresford Beresford-
Other forms of surname	Hope
Dates	1820 - 1887
Nationality	British
Date of birth	25 January 1820
Place of death	His seat at Bedgebury Park, Cranbook, Kent
Date of death	20 October 1887
DatesAndPlaces	Burial: Kilndown, Kent
Activity	Education: 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 category	Fellow
Date of election	17/06/1880
Relationships	Son 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)
Source	Sources: Bulloch's Roll; DNB References: Vanity Fair 10 September 1870
Code	NA6505

Archives associated with this Fellow

RefNo	Title	Date
EC/1880/18	Beresford-Hope, Alexander James Beresford: certificate of election to the Royal Society
HSF/1/2/41	Letter from A J [Alexander James] Beresford Hope, Arklow House, Connaught Place, to Sir John [Frederick William Herschel]	28 July 1862
HS/9/468	Letter, from Alexander J. Beresford Hope to Sir John Herschel, dated at Arklow Ho. Connaught Place	11 April 1860
HS/9/466	Letter, from Alexander J. Beresford Hope to Sir John Herschel, dated at Bedgebury Park Cranbrook	4 January 1860
HS/9/475	Letter, from Alexander J. Beresford Hope to Sir John Herschel, dated at Arklow Ho. Connaught Place	29 May 1868
HS/9/465	Letter, from Alexander J. Beresford Hope to Sir John Herschel, dated at Trafalgar Hotel, Spring Gds.	1 April 1859
HS/9/473	Letter, from Alexander J. Beresford Hope to Sir John Herschel, dated at British Hotel Cockspur St.	10 February 1868
HS/9/467	Letter, from Alexander J. Beresford Hope to Sir John Herschel, dated at Bedgebury Park Cranbrook	27 January 1860
HS/9/472	Letter, from Alexander J. Beresford Hope to Sir John Herschel, dated at British Hotel Cockspur St.	8 February 1868
HS/9/474	Letter, from Alexander J. Beresford Hope to Sir John Herschel, dated at Arklow Ho. Connaught Place	14 May 1868
HS/9/469	Letter, from Alexander J. Beresford Hope to Sir John Herschel, dated at Arklow Ho. Connaught Place	6 June 1860
HS/9/476	Letter, from Alexander J. Beresford Hope to Sir John Herschel, dated at Bedgebury Park, Cranbrook	24 December 1870
HS/9/477	Letter, from Alexander J. Beresford Hope to Sir John Herschel, dated at Arklow Ho. Connaught Place	undated
HS/9/471	Letter, from Alexander J. Beresford Hope to Sir John Herschel, dated at Bedgebury Park Cranbrook	30 August 1867
HS/27/53	Incomplete letter, from [Alexander J. Beresford Hope?] to Sir John Herschel, dated at 13 Connaught Place	6 July 1842
HS/27/87c	Letter, from Alexander J. Beresford Hope to Sir John Herschel, dated at Bedgebury Park Cranbrook	17 December 1862
HS/9/470	Letter, from Alexander J. Beresford Hope to Sir John Herschel, dated at Bedgebury Park Cranbrook	26 January 1867
HS/9/464	Letter, from Alexander J. Beresford Hope to Sir John Herschel, dated at Arklow Ho. Connaught Place	18 March 1859

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