James Hope-Johnstone, 3rd Earl of Hopetoun
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Hopetoun was the son of John Hope, 2nd Earl of Hopetoun
John Hope, 2nd Earl of Hopetoun
John Hope, 2nd Earl of Hopetoun was the son of Charles Hope, 1st Earl of Hopetoun and Lady Henrietta Johnstone....
, and his first wife Anne, daughter of James Ogilvy, 5th Earl of Findlater, and succeeded in the earldom on his father's death in 1781. He was Lord-Lieutenant of Linlithgowshire from 1794 to 1816 and a sat in the House of Lords
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as a Scottish Representative Peer
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from 1784 to 1790 and from 1794 to 1796. In 1809 he was created Baron Hopetoun, of Hopetoun in the County of Linlithgow, in the Peerage of the United Kingdom
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, with remainder to the heirs male of his father. In 1792 Hopetoun succeeded de jure
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as fifth Earl of Annandale and Hartfell
Earl of Annandale and Hartfell
The title Earl of Annandale and Hartfell was created in the Peerage of Scotland in 1661 for James Johnstone.In 1625, the title of Earl of Annandale had been created for John Murray, but it became extinct when his son James died without heirs....
on the death of his great-uncle, although he never successfully claimed the title. He also inherited the Johnstone family estates and assumed this surname in addition to that of Hope.
Lord Hopetoun married Lady Elizabeth, daughter of George Carnegie, 6th Earl of Northesk
George Carnegie, 6th Earl of Northesk
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, in 1766. They had five daughters. She died in 1793. Lord Hopetound survived her by over twenty years and died in May 1816, aged 74. He was succeeded in the earldom of Hopetoun by his half-brother, John
John Hope, 4th Earl of Hopetoun
Lieutenant General John Hope, 4th Earl of Hopetoun PC KB , known as the Honourable John Hope from 1781 to 1814 and as the Lord Niddry from 1809 to 1816, was a Scottish soldier and politician.-Military career:...
. The claim to the earldom of Annandale and Hartfell passed to his eldest daughter Lady Anne, who married William Johnstone Hope
William Johnstone Hope
Vice Admiral Sir William Johnstone Hope, GCB was a prominent and controversial British Royal Navy officer and politician in late eighteenth and early nineteenth century Britain, whose career experienced fleet actions, disputes with royalty, party politics and entry to both Russian and British...
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