Percy Wentworth Hope-Johnstone (2 January 1909 – 5 April 1983) was a

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officer, ''de jure'' 10th

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Life

Hope-Johnstone was the son of Evelyn Wentworth Hope-Johnstone (9 March 1879 – 26 October 1964) and Eileen Briscoe (died 18 April 1909). He was educated at

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and the

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, from where he was commissioned into the 16th/5th Lancers of the

, in which he became a Lieutenant. He later served with the 155th (

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) Field Regiment, the

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, in which he was promoted to the rank of Major. During the

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of the

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, Hope-Johnstone was captured in the

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and held as a

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of the Japanese. On the death of his father, he succeeded him as Chief of

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, Hereditary Steward of Annandale, and Hereditary Keeper of Lochmaben Palace. He also succeeded his father as Lord Johnstone and to the dormant peerage of

, but never claimed it.

Personal life

On 7 July 1932, Hope-Johnstone married Phyllis Athena MacDonell. They had no children and divorced in 1939. On 26 July 1940 he married Margaret Jane Hunter-Arundell (8 November 1910 – 5 May 1998). They had two children: * Patrick Andrew Wentworth, 11th Earl of Annandale and Hartfell (born 19 April 1941) *Lady Eileen Elizabeth (born 3 October 1948) {{DEFAULTSORT:Hope-Johnstone, Percy Wentworth 1909 births 1983 deaths 16th/5th The Queen's Royal Lancers officers

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