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

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politician. The eldest son of Vice-Admiral Sir

William Johnstone Hope Vice Admiral Sir William Johnstone Hope, GCB (16 August 1766 – 2 May 1831) was a prominent and controversial British Royal Navy officer and politician in late eighteenth and early nineteenth century Britain, whose career experienced fleet ...

GCB and Lady Anne, eldest daughter of the 3rd Earl of Hopetoun. In 1816 he married Alicia-Anne, eldest daughter of George Gordon esq. He was Keeper of

Lochmaben Lochmaben ( Gaelic: ''Loch Mhabain'') is a small town and civil parish in Scotland, and site of a castle. It lies west of Lockerbie, in Dumfries and Galloway. By the 12th century the Bruce family had become the local landowners and, in the 14th ...

Palace. He was the

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(MP) for

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from 1830 until 1847 and again from 1857 to 1865. He lived at Raehills,

Lockerbie Lockerbie (, gd, Locarbaidh) is a small town in Dumfries and Galloway, south-western Scotland. It is about from Glasgow, and from the border with England. The United Kingdom Census 2001, 2001 Census recorded its population as 4,009. The town ...

, and Hook House, Dumfriesshire. He was ''de jure'' 7th

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 ...

Sources

*Oliver & Boyd's New Edinburgh Almanac and National Repository, 1845

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* 1796 births 1876 deaths

John John is a common English name and surname: * John (given name) * John (surname) John may also refer to: New Testament Works * Gospel of John, a title often shortened to John * First Epistle of John, often shortened to 1 John * Second ...

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