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The Right HonourableJohn Hope-JohnstoneDL
Member of the British Parliament
for Dumfriesshire
In office
1857–1865
Preceded byViscount Drumlanrig
Succeeded byGeorge Gustavus Walker
In office
1830–1847
Preceded byWilliam Johnstone Hope
Succeeded byViscount Drumlanrig
Personal details
BornJohn James Johnstone
(1796-11-29)29 November 1796
Died11 July 1876(1876-07-11) (aged 79)
Political partyTory
Spouse Alicia Anne Gordon ​(m. 1816)​
Children11
Parents
OccupationPolitician

John James Hope-Johnstone of Annandale DL (29 November 1796 – 11 July 1876) was a Scottish Tory politician.

Early life

Hope-Johnstone was born on 29 November 1796. He was the eldest son of Vice-Admiral Sir William Johnstone Hope GCB, and Lady Anne Hope-Johnstone, the eldest daughter of James Hope-Johnstone, 3rd Earl of Hopetoun.

Career

He was Keeper of Lochmaben Palace. Hope-Johnstone was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Dumfriesshire from 1830 until 1847 and again from 1857 to 1865.

He succeeded his father after the latter's retirement, reportedly at the urging of the newly crowned king William IV. While in Parliament, he supported several reform bills and introduced a petition from Church of Scotland ministers supporting daily Bible classes for Protestant children in Ireland.

He was appointed a Deputy Lieutenant of Dumfriesshire in 1874. He was de jure 7th Earl of Annandale and Hartfell. He on several occasions sought to obtain a peerage, but was ultimately unsuccessful.

Personal life

On 8 July 1816 he married Alicia Anne Gordon, eldest daughter of George Gordon, Esq. He lived at Raehills in Lockerbie (where he considerably extended the house but faced "estate debts"), and Hook House, Dumfriesshire. Together, they had at least eleven children, including:

The cause of his death in 1876 was given as "general decay". As his eldest son William predeceased him, the claim to the earldom of Annandale and Hartfell passed to his grandson, John Hope Johnstone (1842–1912).

References

  1. Mosley, Charles, editor. Burke's Peerage and Baronetage, 106th edition, 2 volumes. Crans, Switzerland: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd, 1999, volume 1, page 82.
  2. Oliver & Boyd's New Edinburgh Almanac and National Repository, 1845.
  3. Craig, F. W. S. (1989) . British parliamentary election results 1832–1885 (2nd ed.). Chichester: Parliamentary Research Services. p. 581. ISBN 0-900178-26-4.
  4. ^ Fisher, David. "HOPE JOHNSTONE, John James (1796-1876), of Raehills, Dumfries". History of Parliament Online. Retrieved 21 May 2023.
  5. "No. 8463". The Edinburgh Gazette. 31 March 1874. p. 217.
  6. ^ Morris, Susan (2020). Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage. p. 1548. ISBN 9781999767051.

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Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded byWilliam Johnstone Hope Member of Parliament for Dumfriesshire
1830 – 1847 		Succeeded byViscount Drumlanrig
Preceded byViscount Drumlanrig Member of Parliament for Dumfriesshire
1857 – 1865 		Succeeded byGeorge Gustavus Walker
Peerage of Scotland
Preceded byAnne Hope Johnstone de jure Earl of Annandale and Hartfell
1818–1876 		Succeeded byJohn Hope Johnstone


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