Linton Hope

Linton Chorley Hope FRAes (18 April 1863 – 20 December 1920) was a sailor from Great Britain,[1] who represented his country at the 1900 Summer Olympics in Meulan, France. With Lorne Currie as helmsman and fellow crewmembers John Gretton and Algernon Maudslay, Hope took first places in both the race of the .5 to 1 ton class and the Open class.

Linton Hope

Personal information
Full name	Linton Chorley Hopps
Nationality	British
Born	(1863-04-18)18 April 1863 Macclesfield, England
Died	20 December 1920(1920-12-20) (aged 57) Midhurst, England
Sailing career
Class(es)	.5 to 1 ton
Medal record Sailing Representing  Great Britain Olympic Games 1900 Paris Open class 1900 Paris .5 to 1 ton 1st race
Updated on 8 May 2015.

Personal life

Hope was born in Macclesfield, Cheshire on 18 April 1863 as Linton Chorley Hopps the son of Edwin and Sara Hopps. He later changed his surname to Hope. Hope married Mabel Ellington in 1898 and they had a son and a daughter, their son Eustace Jack Linton Hope was killed in action in 1941 as a group captain in the Royal Air Force.[2] Hope died on 20 December 1920 in the Midhurst district of Sussex.

Professional life

Hope designed a variety of yachts, as well as the Fairy One Design for the North of Ireland Yacht Club, international canoes, Thames Raters,[3] and Half Raters that were sent to India, specifically the Malabar, Nainital and Rangoon Yacht Clubs.[4][5][6] Both Olympic races were won using the yacht Scotia designed by Hope. He was appointed naval architect to the King of the Belgians.

In 1915 Hope designed the AD Flying Boat for the British Admiralty's Air Department and his hull designs were used by a number of British flying boats in the 1920s including the Phoenix P.5 Cork[7] and Fairey Titania, largest flying boat in the world at the time.

Further reading

• Exposition Universelle Internationale de 1900, Concours D'Exercices Physiques et de Sports (PDF) (in French). Imprimerie Nationale. 1901. Archived from the original (PDF) on 28 May 2008. Retrieved 8 February 2014.

References

1. "Linton Hope Bio, Stats, and Results". Olympic Sports. Archived from the original on 23 March 2013. Retrieved 8 February 2014.
2. "Eustace Jack Linton Hope, Casualty Details". Commonwealth War Graves Commission. Retrieved 19 August 2011.
3. "Yachts designed by Linton Hope". Archived from the original on 23 February 2014. Retrieved 19 August 2011.
4. Hogan, Lauren (27 April 2016). Thames Half Rater “Black Cap” – BAE0002. National Maritime Museum Cornwall.
5. Kamath, Sucharita (16 Oct 2015). Governor's Gold Cup 2015 at Nainital Yacht Club. YachtsandYachting.com.
6. Swe, U Tint (29 January 2017). YANGON SAILING CLUB “RATER STAY” DAY. New Light of Myanmar.
7. Ransom and Fairclough, S and R (1987). "English Electric Aircraft and their Predecessors". Their Fighting Machines. Putnam. Retrieved 7 January 2017.