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

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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

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.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.

Career

He was Keeper of

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Palace. Hope-Johnstone was the Member of Parliament (MP) for

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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

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. While in Parliament, he supported several reform bills and introduced a petition from

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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

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(where he considerably extended the house but faced "estate debts"), and Hook House, Dumfriesshire. Together, they had at least eleven children, including: * William James Hope Johnstone (1819–1850), who married Hon. Octavia Sophia Bosville Macdonald, daughter of Lt.-Gen. Godfrey Macdonald, 3rd Baron Macdonald and Louisa Maria la Coast (an illegitimate daughter of

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), in 1841. * George Gordon Hope Johnstone (1820–1866), a Captain who married Adelaide Mary Wentworth Sinclair, daughter of

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, in 1845. * Robert Gordon Hope Johnstone (1829–1890), who married Agnes Swanson, daughter of Col. John Swanson, in 1855. * Charles Hope Johnstone (1830–1855), a Lieutenant in the

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. * Alice Hope Johnstone (d. 1890), who married Sir Graham Graham-Montgomery, 3rd Baronet, a son of Sir James Montgomery, 2nd Baronet, in 1845. * David Baird Hope Johnstone (d. 1886), a Captain in the 92nd Highlanders who married Margaret Elizabeth Grierson, daughter of Lt.-Col. William Grierson, in 1860. After they divorced, he married Eliza Archer, daughter of T. Archer, in 1874. 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).

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* 1796 births 1876 deaths Nobility from Dumfries and Galloway

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