Victor Alexander John Hope, 2nd Marquess of Linlithgow
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The Most Honourable The Marquess of Linlithgow KG KT GCSI GCIE OBE TD PC |
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| Viceroy of India | |
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In office 18 April 1936 – 1 October 1943 |
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Edward VIII George VI |
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Stanley Baldwin Neville Chamberlain Winston Churchill |
| Preceded by | The Marquess of Willingdon |
| Succeeded by | The Viscount Wavell |
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| Born | 24 September 1887 South Queensferry, Linlithgowshire, Scotland |
| Died | 5 January 1952 (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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