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2 unusual facts about A. D. Hope


A. D. Hope

He wrote a book of "answers" to other poems, including one in response to the poem "To His Coy Mistress" by Andrew Marvell.

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His influences were Pope and the Augustan poets, Auden, and Yeats; he was a polymath, very largely self-taught, and with a talent for offending his countrymen.


Alexander W. Hope

On June 4, 1851, Mayor Benjamin Wilson appointed him to organize and lead a volunteer force of city peace officers, to be known as the Los Angeles Rangers.

Eugene Nickerson

He worked for Wall Street law firm Milbank, Tweed, Hope, Hadley & McCloy, then Hale, Stimson, Russell & Nickerson.

John and Donald Parkinson

At the age of sixteen, he was apprenticed for six years to John J. Bradshaw, a contractor/builder in nearby Bolton, where he learned the meaning of craftsmanship and gained a strong knowledge of practical construction.

John C. Hope

J.C. Hope was born in Newberry District, South Carolina to Johann Christian Haupt and Christina Fellers.

Patrick A. Hope

Hope won a five-way Democratic primary in June 2009 to replace retiring Delegate Al Eisenberg as the 47th district delegate.

T. C. Hope

Theodore Cracraft Hope - a British born civil servant of the Government of India and also author of many books.

Walsh College of Accountancy and Business

Walsh College assists the community in ongoing volunteer efforts: Gleaners, Capuchin Soup Kitchen, Blackwell Institute in Detroit, and Focus: HOPE.


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