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Thomas Hope

Born: 30-Aug-1769
Birthplace: Amsterdam, Netherlands
Died: 3-Feb-1830
Location of death: London, England
Cause of death: unspecified

Gender: Male
Religion: Presbyterian
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Designer, Novelist

Nationality: England [1]
Executive summary: Anastasius

Neoclassicist. Furniture designer and interior decorator, author of one novel.


[1] Resident of London beginning 1794.

Father: Jan Hope (banker, b. 1737, d. 1784)
Mother: Philippina Barbara van der Hoeven (b. 1738, d. 1790)
Brother: Adrian Elias (b. 1772, d. 1834)
Brother: Henry Philip (b. 1774, d. 1839)
Wife: Louisa de la Poer Beresford (m. 16-Apr-1806, d. 1851)
Son: Henry Thomas Hope (British MP, b. 1808, d. 1862)
Son: Alexander Beresford Hope (British MP, b. 1820, d. 1887)

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Author of books:
Household Furniture and Interior Decoration Executed from Designs of Thomas Hope (1807)
Costumes of the Ancients (1809)
Designs of Modern Costumes (1812)
Anastasius (1819, novel)
An Historical Essay on Architecture (1835)


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