John_Hope-Johnstone_(1796–1876)
John James Hope-Johnstone of Annandale (29 November 1796 – 11 July 1876) was a Scottish Tory politician. He was the eldest son of Vice-Admiral Sir William Johnstone Hope GCB and Lady Anne, eldest daughter of the 3rd Earl of Hopetoun. On 8 July 1816 he married Alicia Anne, eldest daughter of George Gordon esq; they had at least 11 children.[2] He was Keeper of Lochmaben Palace. Hope-Johnstone was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Dumfriesshire from 1830 until 1847 and again from 1857 to 1865.[3] He succeeded his father after the latter's retirement, reportedly at the urging of the newly crowned king William IV.[2] While in Parliament, he supported several reform bills and introduced a petition from Church of Scotland ministers supporting daily Bible classes for Protestant children in Ireland.[2]
He lived at Raehills in Lockerbie (where he considerably extended the house but faced "estate debts"),[2] and Hook House, Dumfriesshire.
He was appointed a Deputy Lieutenant of Dumfriesshire in 1874.[4]
He was de jure 7th Earl of Annandale and Hartfell.[1] He on several occasions sought to obtain a peerage, but was ultimately unsuccessful. The cause of his death in 1876 was given as "general decay".[2]