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John Hope, 1st Marquess of Linlithgow

The Most Honourable
The Marquess of Linlithgow
KT, GCMG, GCVO, PC
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1st Governor-General of Australia
In office
1 January 1901 – 9 January 1903
Monarch Victoria
Edward VII
Prime Minister Edmund Barton
Preceded by Office Established
Succeeded by The Lord Tennyson
8th Governor of Victoria
In office
28 November 1889 – 12 July 1895
Monarch Queen Victoria
Preceded by The Lord Loch
Succeeded by The Earl Brassey
Secretary for Scotland
In office
2 February 1905 – 4 December 1905
Prime Minister Arthur Balfour
Preceded by Andrew Murray
Succeeded by John Sinclair
Personal details
Born (1860-09-25)25 September 1860
South Queensferry,
West Lothian,
United Kingdom
Died 29 February 1908(1908-02-29) (aged 47)
Pau, Pyrénées-Atlantiques,
France
Spouse(s) Hersey Eveleigh-de Moleyns
Children 4
Religion Church of Scotland

John Adrian Louis Hope, 1st Marquess of Linlithgow KT, GCMG, GCVO, PC (25 September 1860 – 29 February 1908), also known as Viscount Aithrie before 1873 and as The 7th Earl of Hopetoun between 1873 and 1902, was a British aristocrat, politician and colonial administrator. He is best known for his brief and controversial tenure as the first Governor-General of Australia. When he became Governor-General, he was 40 years old and he remains the youngest person to have held that office; he is also the shortest-lived, dying at the age of 47. In Australia he is remembered as Lord Hopetoun.

Hope was born at South Queensferry, West Lothian in Scotland, the eldest son of the 6th Earl of Hopetoun and Ethelred Anne Hope. He was educated at Eton College and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, where he passed out in 1879, but did not join the Army on graduation. He later explained "the affairs of the family estate, to which I succeeded at 13, seemed to call for my personal attention". Subsequently he devoted his attentions to managing the more than seventeen thousand hectares (42,500 acres) of family estate located around the Firth of Forth.

He married, in London on 18 October 1886, girl-next-door Hersey Alice Eveleigh-de Moleyns (formerly Mullins), a Scots-born Irish aristocrat (daughter of 4th Baron Ventry) then aged 19. They would have two sons and a daughter; a second daughter died in infancy. Their elder son Victor would become Viceroy and Governor-General of India (1936–43), after having declined the governorship of Madras and the governor-generalship of Australia.


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