Arthur Hope, 2nd Baron Rankeillour

Arthur Oswald James Hope, 2nd Baron Rankeillour GCIE MC (7 May 1897 - 26 May 1958) was a British peer and politician.

The eldest son of James Fitzalan Hope, 1st Baron Rankeillour and Mabel Ellen Riddell, he was educated at the Oratory School and at Sandhurst. He joined the Coldstream Guards in 1914 and served in France during World War I, being awarded the Military Cross and the Croix de Guerre, mentioned in despatches, and severely wounded. He later served in Turkey from 1922-1923.

In 1919 he married Grizel, youngest daughter of Brigadier-General Sir Robert Gordon Gilmour. He was Conservative Member of Parliament for Nuneaton from 1924-1929 and for Birmingham Aston from 1931-1939. He was Parliamentary Private Secretary to Col George Lane Fox, Secretary for Mines from 1924-1926, and was a whip from 1935 until 1946, first as an unpaid Assistant Whip in 1935, then as an unpaid Lord of the Treasury 1935-1937, as Vice-Chamberlain of the Household from May-October 1937 and finally as Treasurer of the Household from 1937-1939 (a post his father had held in 1915-16).

On leaving the House of Commons, he was Governor of Madras from 1940-1946. During his period under the influence of well-known industrialist and philanthropist of Coimbatore the Late Shri G.D. Naidu,Established Arthur Hope College of Technology now known as Government College of Technology(GCT), Coimbatore , in July 1945 in accordance with the general policy of the then Government of Madras to give high priority to technical education under the post-war reconstruction schemes in order to meet the demand for trained engineers for various industrial and development projects in the State and the rest of India. He succeeded father in 1949 as Baron Rankeillour.