William Hope

William Hope (1780-1865), like his brother Samuel (see entry above), was the son of William Hope of Liverpool (1751-1827).  The younger William was an active supporter of the Baptist Missionary Society, serving for many years as the director of the Yorkshire and Lancashire Auxiliary Society of the BMS. According to the list of monies received by the Treasurer of the BMS, collected from 1 May to 1 August 1819, William Hope collected £269.18. Carey wrote to Hope in 1830, informing him of the death of Ignatius Fernandez. Hope and his wife served as superintendents of the Byrom Street Sunday School in 1819, which ministered that year to over 400 children and some 30 adults. In 1804 a William Hope of Pool Lane, which is most likely the elder William Hope, subscribed £5.5 to the BMS, with another £2.2 coming from William Hope, Jr. See Baptist Magazine 11 (1819), 411; F. A. Cox, History of the Baptist Missionary Society, from 1792 to 1842, 2 vols. (London: T. Ward, and G. and J. Dyer, 1842), 1:388-389; Evan Owen, “A History of the Liverpool Baptists,” MS., Angus Library, Regent’s Park College, Oxford; BMS Periodical Accounts, vol. 3, p. 125.