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Victor Alexander John Hope, 2nd Marquess of Linlithgow

The Most Honourable
The Marquess of Linlithgow
KG KT GCSI GCIE OBE TD PC
The Marquess of Linlithgow in 1935.jpg
Viceroy of India
In office
18 April 1936 – 1 October 1943
Monarch Edward VIII
George VI
Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin
Neville Chamberlain
Winston Churchill
Preceded by The Marquess of Willingdon
Succeeded by The Viscount Wavell
Personal details
Born 24 September 1887
South Queensferry, Linlithgowshire, Scotland
Died 5 January 1952(1952-01-05) (aged 64)
South Queensferry, Linlithgowshire, Scotland
Spouse(s) Doreen Maud Milner
(1911–1952)

Victor Alexander John Hope, 2nd Marquess of Linlithgow, KG, KT, FRSE, GCSI, GCIE, OBE (24 September 1887 – 5 January 1952) was a Scottish Unionist politician, agriculturalist and colonial administrator. He served as Governor-General and Viceroy of India from 1936 to 1943. He was usually referred to simply as Linlithgow.

He served as vice president of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Chancellor of the University of Edinburgh and Lord High Commissioner to the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland.

Hope was born at Hopetoun House, South Queensferry, Linlithgowshire, Scotland, on 24 September 1887.

He was the eldest son of John Adrian Louis Hope, 7th Earl of Hopetoun, later 1st Marquess Linlithgow, and Hersey Everleigh-de-Moleyns, Countess of Hopetoun and later Marchioness of Linlithgow, daughter of the fourth Baron Ventry. His godmother was Queen Victoria.


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