John James Hope-Johnstone, 8th Earl of Annandale and Hartfell (5 October 1842 – 26 December 1912) was a Scottish

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politician. At the 1874 general election Johnstone was elected as the

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(MP) for

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. He did not stand again at the 1880 general election. He was ''de jure'' 8th

Earl of Annandale and Hartfell Earl of Annandale and Hartfell is a title in the Peerage of Scotland, created 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. J ...

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* * 1841 births 1912 deaths

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Scottish Tory MPs (pre-1912) UK MPs 1874–1880 19th-century Scottish people Earls of Annandale and Hartfell {{Conservative-UK-MP-1840s-stub