Merle, Lady Hope (died 2024)

Merle, Lady Hope, who died 7 May, 2024, was the widow of Sir John Hope, 18th Baronet.

The former Merle Pringle Douglas was a daughter of Robert Douglas, of Holbrook, Suffolk, and married 29 June, 1968, John Carl Alexander Hope of Craighall (born 10 June, 1939), son of Sir Archibald Hope of Craighall, 17th Baronet (1912-1987), and his wife the former Ruth Chamberlin Davis. Her husband succeeded his father in the baronetcy (cr NS 1628), 27 July, 1987, and died 30 Oct, 2007.

Lady Hope is survivved by a daughter, Natasha (born 1971), and a son, Sir Alexander Archibald Douglas Hope of Craighall, 19th Baronet (born 16 March, 1969).

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