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John Hope (1891–1971)

by Andrew Moore

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John Hope, 1929

John Hope, 1929

Daily Telegraph (Sydney), 11 August 1929, p 7

John Hope (1891-1971) clergyman

Birth: 5 January 1891 at Strathfield, Sydney, New South Wales, tenth child of Charles Edward Hope (1856-1932), a wool-broker, born at Batesford, Victoria, and Mary Hooper, née Kebble [or Kettle] (1855-1931), born at Kahuika, Otago, New Zealand. Unmarried. Death: 21 June 1971 in Royal North Shore Hospital, Sydney. 

  • His grandfather was Robert Culbertson Hope, medical practitioner and pastoralist, and his great-great grandfather was Rev. Samuel Marsden. John’s father, educated in Melbourne, learned the wool trade in the United Kingdom and spent some years in New Zealand before returning to Sydney where he became “the doyen of the wool trade”.
  • John Hope was Anglican rector of Christ Church of St Laurence, in Sydney from 1925 to 1964. Some knew him as ‘Red Jack’.
  • The Christian socialist tradition seems to have been quite strong in the 1930s. Christian socialists participated in May Day marches and permeated the fraternal organisations of the Communist Party of Australia. Hope encouraged them.
  • Cause of death: coronary thrombosis (hours), ischaemic heart disease (years) and diabetes. 

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Andrew Moore, 'Hope, John (1891–1971)', People Australia, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, https://peopleaustralia.anu.edu.au/biography/hope-john-10540/text44516, accessed 14 March 2026.

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John Hope, 1929

John Hope, 1929

Daily Telegraph (Sydney), 11 August 1929, p 7

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Birth

5 January, 1891
Strathfield, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Death

21 June, 1971 (aged 80)
Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Cause of Death

heart disease

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