Hope Campbell Thomas

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Watercolour painting by John Sowden of Thomas Campbell Hope, architect.

from John Sowden's notebook:

"Mr Hope was born in Bradford in 1834. His father was a travelling draper who came from Gretna Green to Bradford & married there. Mr Hope was educated in Bradford and served his articles with a Bfd firm, subsequently commencing on his own account as Architect, Surveyor & Valuer in 1858.
He was responsible for the design of many dwelling houses of the larger type in Bradford. Among other buildings for which he was responsible may be mentioned, the Bradford Technical College, the Nutter Orphanage, Greenfield Congregational Church, Grange Road Church, Sticker Lane Methodist Chapel, Lilycroft School, Grange Road School, Apsley Mills, the Rawson Square extension of the Market Halls, the Third Equitable Society's building, the County Restaurant, Pudsey Mechanics' Institute and a large number of Terrace Houses in Ash Grove, Hallfield Road, St Paul's Road, Parkfield Road Estate and Melbourne Villas.
Mr Hope was elected to the City Council as a representative of the Manningham Ward on 3 occasions without opposition in 1883, 1886 and 1889, but in 1892 he was defeated by Mr. F.W. Jowett & did not seek to re-enter municipal life.
For several years he was Chairman of the Tramways, Paths(?) & Team Labour Committees. Mr Hope was married 3 times.
Mr Hope was for some years a director of the Bradford Third Equitable Building Society and was one of the founders of the Bradford Ratepayers and Property Association of which he was the first president.
He died in 1916, leaving a widow, two sons and five daughters."

Year

1907

Image filename

sowden-262