Victor Alexander John (Hope), 2nd Marquess of Linlithgow

1887 - 1952  (64 years)

• Name	Victor Alexander John (Hope)  [1]
  Suffix	2nd Marquess of Linlithgow
  Born	24 Sept. 1887	Abercorn, Linlithgowshire, Scotland   [1, 2]
  Gender	Male
  Hereditary Title	29 Feb. 1908  [3]
  	2nd Marquess of Linlithgow [U.K., 1902]
  Hereditary Title	29 Feb. 1908  [1]
  	5th Baron Niddry, of Niddry, co. Linlithgow [U.K., 1814]
  Hereditary Title	29 Feb. 1908  [1]
  	8th Earl of Hopetoun [S., 1703]
  Hereditary Title	29 Feb. 1908  [1]
  	8th Lord Hope [S., 1703]
  Hereditary Title	29 Feb. 1908  [1]
  	8th Viscount of Aithrie [S., 1703]
  Census	2 April 1911	91, Lancaster Gate W., Paddington, London, Middlesex, England   [2]
  Education	Eton College, Windsor, Berkshire, England   [1]
  Education	University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Midlothian, Scotland   [1]
  	Doctor of Law (LL.D.)
  Decoration	Knight of Grace of the Order of St. John of Jerusalem (K.G.St.J.)  [1]
  Decoration	Officer of the Order of the British Empire (O.B.E.)  [1]
  Decoration	Territorial Decoration (T.D.)  [1]
  Office	From 1920 to 1934  [1]
  	Captain of the Royal Company Archers
  Military Service	From 1920 to 1926  [1]
  	Major, 1st Lothians and Border Armoured Car Company
  Office	From 1922 to 1924  [1]
  	Civil Lord of the Admiralty
  Office	From 1927 to 1929  [1]
  	Vice-Lord-Lieutenant of West Lothian
  Decoration	1928  [1]
  	Knight of the Order of the Thistle (K.T.)
  Decoration	1929  [1]
  	Knight Grand Commander of the Order of the Indian Empire (G.C.I.E.)
  Office	From 1929 to 1952  [1]
  	Lord-Lieutenant of West Lothian
  Office	1935  [1]
  	Privy Counsellor (P.C.)
  Decoration	1936  [1]
  	Knight Grand Commander of the Order of the Star of India (G.C.S.I.)
  Office	From 1936 to 1943  [1]
  	Viceroy of India
  Decoration	1943  [1]
  	Knight of the Order of the Garter (K.G.)
  Office	Deputy Lieutenant (D.L.) of West Lothian  [1]
  Office	From 1944 to 1952  [1]
  	Chancellor of Edinburgh University
  Office	From 1944 to 1945  [1]
  	Lord High Commissioner of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland
  Occupation	Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (F.R.S.)  [1]
  Military Service	Captain, Lothians and Border Horse Yeomanry  [1]
  Died	5 Jan. 1952  [1]
  Person ID	I841	British Peerage & Gentry
  Last Modified	22 Sept. 2018

  
  

  Father	John Adrian Louis (Hope), 1st Marquess of Linlithgow,   b. 25 Sept. 1860, Hopetoun House, South Queensferry, West Lothian, Scotland ,   d. 29 Feb. 1908, Villa Cecil, Pau, France  (Age 47 years)
  Mother	Hon. Hersey Alice Eveleigh de Moleyns,   b. 31 March 1867,   d. 3 April 1937  (Age 70 years)
  Married	18 Oct. 1886	All Saints', Ennismore Gardens, Knightsbridge, Middlesex, England   [4]
  Family ID	F443	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Doreen Maud Milner,   d. 3 Aug. 1965, Kingston Hospital, Kingston-upon-Thames, Surrey, England
  Married	19 April 1911  [1]
  Children	+ 1. Charles William Frederick (Hope), 3rd Marquess of Linlithgow,   b. 7 April 1912,   d. 1987  (Age 74 years)   2. Lt.-Col. John Adrian (Hope), 1st Baron Glendevon,   b. 7 April 1912,   d. 18 Jan. 1995  (Age 82 years)   3. Lady Anne Adeline Hope,   b. 27 Jan. 1914  (Age 110 years) + 4. Lady Joan Isabella Hope,   b. 21 Sept. 1915,   d. 20 April 1982  (Age 66 years) + 5. Lady Doreen Hersey Winifred Hope,   b. 17 June 1920,   d. 22 Jan. 1998  (Age 77 years)
  Last Modified	9 Sept. 2018
  Family ID	F467	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

• Heraldry

  Arms of Hope (Marquess of Linlithgow, Earl of Hopetoun) Azure on a chevron Or between three bezants a laurel leaf slipped Vert. Source: Burke's General Armory, last ed. (1884), Fourth Impression (London: Heraldry Today, 1984), page 505.

  
  

• Sources

  [S2] BP 2003, Charles Mosley (ed.), (Wilmington, Delaware, U.S.A.: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd., 2003), volume 2, page 2358. [S28] 1911 England and Wales Census, class RG14, piece 75, schedule 201. [S2] BP 2003, Charles Mosley (ed.), (Wilmington, Delaware, U.S.A.: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd., 2003), volume 2, page 2359. [S22] The Complete Peerage, G. E. Cokayne, with Vicary Gibbs, H.A. Doubleday, Geoffrey H. White, Duncan Warrand and Lord Howard de Walden (eds.), (Alan Sutton Publishing, 1910–59; reprint in 6 volumes, Gloucester, 2000), volume VI, page 576.