James Hope, 3rd Earl of Hopetoun - Watercolor by Richard Cosway

James Hope-Johnstone, 3rd Earl of Hopetoun

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(23 August 1741 – 29 May 1816), known as Viscount Aithrie from 1742 to 1781, was a Scottish

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and military leader.

Life

Hopetoun was the son of

John Hope, 2nd Earl of Hopetoun John Hope, 2nd Earl of Hopetoun (7 September 1704 – 12 February 1781) was the son of Charles Hope, 1st Earl of Hopetoun and Lady Henrietta Johnstone. He married on 14 September 1733 to Anne Ogilvy, daughter of James Ogilvy, 5th Earl of Findlater ...

, and his first wife, Lady Anne Ogilvy, daughter of James Ogilvy, 5th Earl of Findlater. His many siblings and half siblings included his sister Lady Henrietta Hope. Being set on a military career he spent from 1758 until 1764 as an Ensign (junior officer) in the

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. He succeeded to the earldom of Hopetoun on the death of his father in 1781. He was

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from 1794 to 1816 and sat in the

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as a

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from 1784 to 1790 and from 1794 to 1796. In 1786 he was elected a Fellow of the

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. His proposers were John Walker,

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and Henry Cullen. In 1809 he was created Baron Hopetoun, of Hopetoun in the County of Linlithgow, in the

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, with remainder to the heirs male of his father. In 1792 Hopetoun succeeded ''

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'' as fifth

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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. He died in

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on 29 May 1816.

Family

Elizabeth Carneige Hope, Countess of Hopetoun, Watercolor by Richard Cosway, 1789

Lord Hopetoun married Lady Elizabeth Carnegie (d. 1793), daughter of

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, in 1766. They had five daughters. Lord Hopetoun survived Elizabeth by over twenty years and died in May 1816, aged 74. He was succeeded in the earldom of Hopetoun by his half-brother, John Hope. The claim to the earldom of Annandale and Hartfell passed to his eldest daughter Lady Anne, who married

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. His daughter Georgiana Hope-Johnstone (d. 1797) married Andrew Cochrane, youngest son of

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, in 1793; Cochrane added "Johnstone" to his name to become Andrew Cochrane-Johnstone. He had a checkered career in the military and Parliament that ended with his involvement in the

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. Hope-Johnstone's brothers-in-law included

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, Henry Dundas, Viscount Melville and Sir

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References

*Kidd, Charles, Williamson, David (editors). ''Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage'' (1990 edition). New York: St Martin's Press, 1990. *
www.thepeerage.com

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Hopetoun, James Hope-Johnstone, 3rd Earl of 1741 births 1816 deaths Earls of Hopetoun Lord-Lieutenants of West Lothian

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Scottish representative peers Earls of Annandale and Hartfell