it gained in grip of the social conditions of contemporary life. He wrote two plays, The Adventure of Lady Ursula (1898) and Pilkerton’s Peerage (1902), and his later novels include The Great Miss Driver (1908) and Second String (1909). Mr Hawkins’s attractive and cultured style and command of plot give him a high place among the modern writers of English fiction. In 1903 he married Miss Elizabeth Somerville Sheldon of New York.
HOPE, THOMAS (c. 1770–1831), English art-collector, and author of Anastasius, born in London about 1770, was the eldest son of John Hope of Amsterdam, and was descended from a branch of an old Scottish family who for several generations were extensive merchants in London and Amsterdam. About the age of eighteen he started on a tour through various parts of Europe, Asia and Africa, where he interested himself especially
in architecture and sculpture, making a large collection of the principal objects which attracted his attention. On his return to London about 1796 he purchased a house in Duchess Street, Cavendish Square, which he fitted up in a very elaborate style, from drawings made by himself. In 1807 he published sketches of his furniture, accompanied by letterpress, in a folio volume, entitled Household Furniture and Interior Decoration,
which had considerable influence in effecting a change in the upholstery and interior decoration of houses, notwithstanding that Byron had referred scornfully to him as “House-furnisher withal, one Thomas hight.” Hope’s furniture designs were in that pseudo-classical manner which is generally called “English Empire.” It was sometimes extravagant, and often heavy, but was much more restrained than the wilder and later flights
of Sheraton in this style. At the best, however, it was a not very inspiring mixture of Egyptian and Roman motives. In
1809 he published the Costumes of the Ancients, and in 1812
Designs of Modern Costumes, works which display a large amount
of antiquarian research. He was also, as his father had been—the
elder Hope’s country house near Haarlem was crowded with
fine pictures—a munificent patron of the highest forms of art,
and both at his London house and his country seat at Deepdene
near Dorking he formed large collections of paintings, sculpture
and antiques. Deepdene in his day became a famous resort
of men of letters as well as of people of fashion, and among the
luxuries suggested by his fine taste was a miniature library
in several languages in each bedroom. Thorvaldsen, the Danish
sculptor, was indebted to him for the early recognition of his
talents, and he also gave frequent employment to Chantrey and
Flaxman—it was to his order that the latter illustrated Dante.
In 1819 he published anonymously his novel Anastasius, or
Memoirs of a Modern Greek, written at the close of the 18th century,
a work which, chiefly on account of the novel character of its
subject, caused a great sensation. It was at first generally
attributed to Lord Byron, who told Lady Blessington that he
wept bitterly on reading it because he had not written it and
Hope had. But, though remarkable for the acquaintance it
displays with Eastern life, and distinguished by considerable
imaginative vigour and much graphic and picturesque description,
its paradoxes are not so striking as those of Lord Byron;
and, notwithstanding some eloquent and forcible passages,
the only reason which warranted its ascription to him was the
general type of character to which its hero belonged. Hope
died on the 3rd of February 1831. He was the author of two
works published posthumously—the Origin and Prospects
of Man (1831), in which his speculations diverged widely from
the usual orthodox opinions, and an Historical Essay on Architecture
(1835), an elaborate description of the architecture of
the middle ages, illustrated by drawings made by himself in
Italy and Germany. He is commonly known in literature as
“Anastasius” Hope. He married (1806) Louisa de la Poer
Beresford, daughter of Lord Decies, archbishop of Tuam.
HOPEDALE, a township of Worcester county, Massachusetts,
U.S.A.; pop. (1905; state census) 2048; (1910) 2188. It is
served by the Milford & Uxbridge (electric) street railway, and
(for freight) by the Grafton & Upton railway. The town lies
in the “dale” between Milford and Mendon, and is cut from
N.W. to S.E. by the Mill river, which furnishes good water
power at its falls. The principal manufactures are textiles,
boots and shoes, and, of most importance, cotton machinery.
The great cotton machinery factories here are owned by the
Draper Company. Hopedale has a public park on the site of
the Ballou homestead, with a bronze statue of Adin Ballou;
a memorial church erected by George A. and Eben S. Draper;
the Bancroft Memorial Library, given by Joseph B. Bancroft in
memory of his wife; and a marble drinking fountain with
statuary by Waldo Story, the gift of Susan Preston Draper,
General W. F. Draper’s wife. The village is remarkable for the
comfortable cottages of the workers.
The history of Hopedale centres round the Rev. Adin Ballou (1803–1890), a distant relative of Hosea Ballou;[1] he left, in succession, the ministry of the Christian Connexion (1823) and that of the Universalist Church (1831), because of his restorationist views. In 1831 he became pastor of an independent church in Mendon. An ardent exponent of temperance, the anti-slavery movement, woman’s rights, the peace cause and Christian non-resistance (even through the Civil War), and of “Practical Christian Socialism,” it was in the interests of the last cause that he founded Hopedale, or “Fraternal Community No. 1,” in Milford, in April 1842, the first compact of the community having been drawn up in January 1841. Thirty persons joined with him, and lived in a single house on a poor farm of 258 acres, purchased in June 1841. Ballou was for several years the president of the community, which was run on the plan that all should have an equal voice as to the use of property, in spite of the fact that there was individual holding of property. The community, however, owned the instruments of production, with the single exception of the important patent rights held by Ebenezer D. Draper. The result was bickerings between those who were joint stockholders and those whose only profit came from their manual labour. In a short time the control of the community came into the hands of its richest members, E. D. Draper and his brother, George Draper (1817–1887), who owned three-fourths of the joint stock. In 1856 there was a total deficit of about $12,000. The Draper brothers bought up the joint stock of the community at par and paid its debts, and the community soon ceased to exist save as a religious society. After George Draper’s death the control of the mills passed to his sons. These included General William Franklin Draper (1842–1910), a Republican representative in Congress in 1892–1897 and U.S. ambassador to Italy in 1897–1900, and Eben Sumner Draper (b. 1858), lieutenant-governor of Massachusetts in 1906-1908 and governor in 1909–1911. In 1867 the community was merged with Hopedale parish, a Unitarian organization. Hopedale was separated from Milford and incorporated as a township in 1886.
See Adin Ballou’s History of Milford (Boston, 1882), his History of the Hopedale Community, edited by William S. Heywood (Lowell, 1897), his Biography by the same editor (Lowell, 1896) and his Practical and Christian Socialism (Hopedale, 1854); George L. Carey, “Adin Ballou and the Hopedale Community” (in the New World, vol. vii., 1898); Lewis G. Wilson, “Hopedale and Its Founder” (in The New England Magazine, vol. x., 1891); and William F. Draper, Recollections of a Varied Career (Boston, 1908).
HOPE-SCOTT, JAMES ROBERT (1812-1873), English barrister and Tractarian, was born on the 15th of July 1812, at Great Marlow, Berkshire, the third Son of Sir Alexander Hope, and grandson of the second earl of Hopetoun. He was educated at Eton and Oxford, where he was a contemporary and friend of Gladstone and J. H. Newman, and in 1838 was called to the bar. Between 1840 and 1843 he helped to found Trinity College, Glenalmond. He was one of the leaders of the Tractarian movement and entirely in Newman’s confidence. In 1851 he was received with Manning into the Roman Catholic church. At this time he was making a very large income at the Parliamentary bar. He only commenced serious practice in this branch of his profession in 1843, but by the end of 1845 he stood at the head of it and in 1849 was made a Queen’s Counsel. In 1847 he married Miss Lockhart, granddaughter of Sir Walter Scott, and on her coming into possession of Abbotsford six years later,
- ↑ Adin Ballou wrote An Elaborate History and Genealogy of the Ballous in America (Providence, R.I., 1888).
