Background
He was born at Hartlepool, County Durham and died at Clifton, Bristol.
He was born at Hartlepool, County Durham and died at Clifton, Bristol.
He was educated at Sherborne School and played Minor Counties cricket for Dorset up to 1913.
Hope was a right-handed middle or lower order batsman and an occasional right-arm fast-medium bowler. In 1914, his one substantial innings was 65 against Derbyshire at Chesterfield. Earlier, by making 18, he had contributed exactly half the runs made from the bat in the second innings against Hampshire at Bath.
Hope returned to first-class cricket for a dozen games in 1919 and improved his personal best by scoring 68 in the match against Gloucestershire at Taunton.
Hope did not play in 1920, but returned to Somerset for a further dozen games in 1921, when he again improved his highest score, this time scoring 77, more than double the second highest score, in the match against Essex at Bath. After 1921, however, Hope left regular first-class cricket, making just one further appearance for Somerset in the 1925 season.
His first-class cricket for Somerset was restricted largely to three seasons, 1914, 1919 and 1921, though in each of these he was a fairly regular member of the side.