John Hope, 7th Earl of Hopetoun
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The Most Honourable The Marquess of Linlithgow KT, GCMG, GCVO, PC |
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| 1st Governor-General of Australia | |
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In office 1 January 1901 – 9 January 1903 |
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| Monarch |
Victoria Edward VII |
| Prime Minister | Edmund Barton |
| Preceded by | Office Established |
| Succeeded by | The Lord Tennyson |
| 8th Governor of Victoria | |
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In office 28 November 1889 – 12 July 1895 |
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| Monarch | Queen Victoria |
| Preceded by | The Lord Loch |
| Succeeded by | The Earl Brassey |
| Secretary for Scotland | |
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In office 2 February 1905 – 4 December 1905 |
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| Prime Minister | Arthur Balfour |
| Preceded by | Andrew Murray |
| Succeeded by | John Sinclair |
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25 September 1860 South Queensferry, West Lothian, United Kingdom |
| Died | 29 February 1908 (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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