Elizabeth, Lady Hope

Elizabeth Reid Cotton, (9 December 1842 – 8 March 1922) who became Lady Hope when she married Sir James Hope in 1877, was a British evangelist active in the Temperance movement.

In 1915, she claimed to have visited the British naturalist Charles Darwin shortly before his death in 1882. Hope said that Darwin spoke of second thoughts about publicizing his theory of natural selection. The possibility that Hope visited Darwin cannot be excluded, although it is denied by Darwin's family, but what she claimed Darwin said at the putative interview is much less likely to be accurate.