Thomas Hope

Thomas Hope (1846 – 20 November 1916) was an English Congregationalist minister who had a career in Australia. History Hope was educated at Owen's College, Manchester, and studied for the ministry at Lancashire Independent College. His first appointment was in 1872 to the Congregational Church in Bungay, Suffolk. In late 1873 he left for South Australia aboard the Stratton Audley, and was in May 1874 appointed to Clayton Congregational Church, in Kensington, South Australia, as successor to Eliezer Griffiths who had departed for Britain and America, and William Harcus, who had embarked on a career in journalism.