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135:(12 May 1807 – 25 June 1893) was a Scottish lawyer, philanthropist and campaigner. A man of considerable wealth, he devoted much of his life to improving the conditions of working-class people in his native city, mainly by providing education and encouraging abstinence from alcohol. He was a leading member of the anti-Catholic movement that was widespread in Britain at the time. On his death, he bequeathed his entire estate to a charitable trust that exists to this day.
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celebrated legal action, the relatives alleged that he had suffered delusions, as demonstrated by his attitudes towards alcohol and the Roman
Catholic church. The case was eventually settled out of court, with the relatives receiving a total of £15,000 and agreeing to withdraw the allegations they had made regarding Hope's sanity.
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From the mid-1840s, Hope campaigned vigorously for abstention from alcohol, especially among young people. In 1847 he founded the
British League of Juvenile Abstainers to promote a teetotal culture among children. Under the League's auspices, he organised and financed free evening classes for young
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The Hope Trust still exists. It was officially constituted as a charity in 1912. According to its
Objects, its main roles are now "the promotion of temperance work and the combatting of all forms of substance abuse" and "promoting Reformed theology and Reformed church life especially in Scotland."
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Hope bequeathed his entire £400,000 estate to the Hope Trust, which he had set up three years earlier specifically to provide funds for anti-alcohol and anti-Catholic campaigns after his death. The bequest was challenged by some of Hope's relatives who had expected to benefit from his will. In a
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In his early thirties, Hope began the campaigning, evangelical and philanthropic activities which would occupy the rest of his life. His professional earnings and inherited wealth had made him a wealthy man, and with no family to support he was able to devote considerable resources to his chosen
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Hope played an active role in the formation of the
Scottish Reformation Society, which saw itself as "a defender of British and Protestant liberties from the threats of Rome". In 1851, he helped organise a series of public meetings and lectures in Edinburgh, addressed by the noted anti-Catholic
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working-class men and women who might not otherwise have had access to education, at a cost to himself of some £3,000 per year. He used the classes to preach the benefits of abstention from alcohol and tobacco. By the time of Hope's death, some 30,000 people had passed through these classes.
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Hope also formed the
British League Cadets, nicknamed the "Water Rats", to provide future recruits to the volunteers. In July 1868, 250 cadets joined thousands of members of the Rifle Volunteers in a massive mock battle in Holyrood Park.
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Another of the causes that occupied much of Hope's life was the promotion of
Protestantism and the resistance to what he saw as the advances of the Roman Catholic church in Scottish life. This was against a background of a surge in
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Hope died on 25 June 1893 at his home, 31 Moray Place, Edinburgh. According to the death certificate, his death was "hastened by an accidental burn to his left foot". He was buried four days later in the family tomb in
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Hope financed the publication of a number of
Blakeney's anti-Catholic writings. He also published a monthly tract, The
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