Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Elizabeth Reid, Lady Hope (née Cotton; 9 December 1842 8 March 1922) was a British evangelist who is generally believed to be the Lady Hope who claimed in 1915 that she had visited the British naturalist Charles Darwin shortly before his death in 1882. Hope claimed that Darwin had recanted his theory of evolution on his deathbed and accepted Jesus Christ as his saviour. Elizabeth Cotton was born in 1842 in Tasmania, Australia, the daughter of a British general, General Sir Arthur Cotton. Aged 35, she married a widower, retired Admiral Sir James Hope, who was 34 years her senior, in 1877 becoming Lady Hope of Carriden. Sir James died just four years later. She and her father were part of the evangelist temperance movement, living in Beckenham, Kent about 6 miles from Downe (where Charles Darwin died on 19 April 1882) during the early 1880s.