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

1887 - 1952  (64 years)

• Name	Victor Alexander John (Hope)  [1]
  Suffix	2nd Marquess of Linlithgow
  Birth	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]
  Death	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)
  Marriage	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
  Marriage	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 112 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)
  Family ID	F467	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	9 Sept. 2018

  
  

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