Other Events:

• Education: Eton College, Windsor, Berkshire, England
• Education: University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland; Doctor of Law (LL.D.)
• Decoration: Knight of Grace of the Order of St. John of Jerusalem (K.G.St.J.)
• Decoration: Officer of the Order of the British Empire (O.B.E.)
• Decoration: Territorial Decoration (T.D.)
• Office: Deputy Lieutenant (D.L.) of West Lothian
• Occupation: Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (F.R.S.)
• Military Service: Captain, Lothians and Border Horse Yeomanry
• Hereditary Title: 29 Feb. 1908; 2nd Marquess of Linlithgow [U.K., 1902]
• Hereditary Title: 29 Feb. 1908; 5th Baron Niddry, of Niddry, co. Linlithgow [U.K., 1814]
• Hereditary Title: 29 Feb. 1908; 8th Earl of Hopetoun [S., 1703]
• Hereditary Title: 29 Feb. 1908; 8th Lord Hope [S., 1703]
• Hereditary Title: 29 Feb. 1908; 8th Viscount of Aithrie [S., 1703]
• Census: 2 April 1911, 91, Lancaster Gate W., Paddington, London, Middlesex, England
• Office: From 1920 to 1934; Captain of the Royal Company Archers
• Military Service: From 1920 to 1926; Major, 1st Lothians and Border Armoured Car Company
• Office: From 1922 to 1924; Civil Lord of the Admiralty
• Office: From 1927 to 1929; Vice-Lord-Lieutenant of West Lothian
• Decoration: 1928; Knight of the Order of the Thistle (K.T.)
• Decoration: 1929; Knight Grand Commander of the Order of the Indian Empire (G.C.I.E.)
• Office: From 1929 to 1952; Lord-Lieutenant of West Lothian
• Office: 1935; Privy Counsellor (P.C.)
• Decoration: 1936; Knight Grand Commander of the Order of the Star of India (G.C.S.I.)
• Office: From 1936 to 1943; Viceroy of India
• Decoration: 1943; Knight of the Order of the Garter (K.G.)
• Office: From 1944 to 1952; Chancellor of Edinburgh University
• Office: From 1944 to 1945; Lord High Commissioner of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland

Victor married Doreen Maud Milner on 19 April 1911. Doreen (daughter of Rt. Hon. Sir Frederick George Milner, 7th Baronet) died on 3 Aug. 1965 in Kingston Hospital, Kingston-upon-Thames, Surrey, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

1. Charles William Frederick (Hope), 3rd Marquess of Linlithgow was born on 7 April 1912; died in 1987.
2. Lt.-Col. John Adrian (Hope), 1st Baron Glendevon was born on 7 April 1912; died on 18 Jan. 1995.
3. Lady Anne Adeline Hope was born on 27 Jan. 1914.
4. Lady Joan Isabella Hope was born on 21 Sept. 1915; died on 20 April 1982.
5. Lady Doreen Hersey Winifred Hope was born on 17 June 1920; died on 22 Jan. 1998.

Other Events:

• Hereditary Title: 1 April 1873; 7th Earl of Hopetoun [S., 1703]
• Education: From 1874 to 1878, Eton, Buckinghamshire, England; Eton College
• Will: 23 Aug. 1889
• Decoration: 1900; Knight of the Order of the Thistle (K.T.)
• Hereditary Title: 27 Oct. 1902; 1st Marquess of Linlithgow [U.K., 1902]
• Probate: 11 May 1908, Linlithgow, West Lothian, Scotland; Confirmation granted to Victor Alexander John, Marquis of Linlithgow, his son, Executor (Value of Estate £225,985 16s. 3d.)

John married Hon. Hersey Alice Eveleigh de Moleyns on 18 Oct. 1886 in All Saints', Ennismore Gardens, Knightsbridge, Middlesex, England. Hersey was born on 31 March 1867; died on 3 April 1937. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]