HOPE WEIR, Hon. Charles (1710-91), of Craigiehall, Linlithgow, and Blackwood, Lanark.

Just before the 1734 election Charles Hope Weir, the son of a representative peer who controlled Linlithgowshire, was granted a pension of £400 p.a., which he relinquished shortly before his return in 1743.HMC Polwarth, v. 112; Cal. Treas. Bks. and Pprs. 1742-5, p. 360. Though he then defeated a placeman seeking re-election, he supported the Government, voting for the Hanoverians in 1744 and 1746, when he was classed as an Old Whig. On the formation of the Broad-bottom Administration in December 1744 he received two lucrative appointments. After his elopement with Anne Vane in 1746, he asked Newcastle, as a family friend, to intercede with her father, Henry Vane.Hope Weir to Newcastle, 25 Mar. 1746, Add. 32706, f. 334. Re-elected without opposition in 1747, he was consulted by Pelham on a Lanarkshire by-election in 1750.Omond, Arniston Mems. 146. Unlike most of his compatriots, he voted with the ministry on the case of General Philip Anstruther.Walpole, Mems. Geo. II, i. 60. In 1753 he applied to Newcastle to be appointed to the board of manufacturers,Hope Weir to Newcastle, 18 Apr. 1753, Add. 32731, f. 383. which he was two years later. Again returned unopposed in 1754, he died 30 Dec. 1791.