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John Hope, 2nd Earl of Hopetoun

John Hope, 2nd Earl of Hopetoun

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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.

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He married on 14 September 1733 to Anne Ogilvy, daughter of James Ogilvy, 5th Earl of Findlater (son of James Ogilvy, 4th Earl of Findlater) and Lady Elizabeth Hay. He married, secondly, Jane Oliphant (died 16 March 1767), daughter of Robert Oliphant, on 30 October 1762. He married, thirdly, Lady Elizabeth Leslie (died 10 April 1788), daughter of Alexander Melville, 5th Earl of Leven and Elizabeth Monypenny, on 10 June 1767.

John Hope succeeded to the title of 2nd Earl of Hopetoun in 1742. In 1747 he was appointed Curator bonis (Trustee in Lunacy) for his half-uncle, the 4th Earl of Annandale and Hartfell.

Children by first marriage to Lady Anne Ogilvy

Hopetoun House, seat of Earl of Hopetoun
  • Elizabeth Hope (born 1739 – died 7 April 1756)

Children by second marriage to Jane Oliphant

Children from third marriage to Lady Elizabeth Leslie

Lady Elizabeth (Betty) was the sister of David Leslie, 6th Earl of Leven.[3]

References

  1. [1]
    A Genealogical History of the Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited, and Extinct Peerages of the British Empire (1866), p. 301
  2. [2]
    E. Dorothy Graham, 'Hope, Lady Henrietta (c.1750–1786)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 accessed 17 June 2017
  3. [3]
    Cassell's Old and New Edinburgh; vol. 5, ch. 16
  4. [4]
    Foster, Joseph (1882). "Members of parliament, Scotland, including the minor barons, the commissioners for the shires, and the commissioners the for the burghs, 1357-1882, on the basis of the parliamentary return 1880, with genealogical and biographical notices". Google Books. Retrieved 28 May 2020.
  5. [5]
    Foster, Joseph (1882). "Members of parliament, Scotland, including the minor barons, the commissioners for the shires, and the commissioners the for the burghs, 1357-1882, on the basis of the parliamentary return 1880, with genealogical and biographical notices". Google Books. p. 271. Retrieved 31 May 2020.
  • Charles Mosley, editor, Burke's Peerage and Baronetage, 106th edition, 2 volumes (Crans, Switzerland: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd., 1999), volume 1, page 81.
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