Essays Tagged: "Henry Thomas Hope"
The hope diamond
me stone that was stolen from the French king. In 1839 a member of a very rich banking family named Henry Phillip Hope passed away, the year he died however, a catalog of his gem collection was publis ... alled the "Hope Diamond". In 1841 following the death of Lord Hope and many lawsuits, Hope's nephew Henry Thomas Hope inherited the stone. The diamond was put on display between the years 1851-1855 in ...
Subjects: History Term Papers