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词条 John Hope, 4th Earl of Hopetoun
释义

  1. Military career

  2. Family

  3. Monuments

  4. Notes

  5. References

  6. External links

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  • Battle of Corunna
  • Walcheren Campaign
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General John Hope, 4th Earl of Hopetoun PC KB FRSE (17 August 1765 – 27 August 1823), known as the Honourable John Hope from 1781 to 1814 and as the Lord Niddry from 1814 to 1816, was a Scottish politician and British Army officer.

Military career

Hopetoun was the only son of John Hope, 2nd Earl of Hopetoun, by his second wife Jane or Jean Oliphant.[1] His mother died when he was only one year old.[1] He was commissioned into the 10th Light Dragoons in 1784.[1] He sat as Member of Parliament for Linlithgowshire from 1790 to 1800.[1]

He took part in the capture of the French West Indies and Spanish West Indies in 1796 and 1797.[1] In 1799 he was sent to Den Helder as Deputy Adjutant-General and was present at the Battle of Bergen and the Battle of Castricum.[1] In 1801 he was sent to Cairo and then to Alexandria to take the surrender of the French garrisons there.[1] He became Lieutenant-Governor of Portsmouth and General Officer Commanding South-West District in June 1805.[2][3]

He commanded a Division during the advance into Spain and commanded the British left at the Battle of Corunna in 1809, succeeding to overall command when Sir John Moore was killed.[1] Later that year he commanded the reserve army during the Walcheren Campaign.[1] He was appointed Commander-in-Chief, Ireland and was admitted to the Irish Privy Council in 1812.[1] He then commanded the First Division under The Duke of Wellington at the Battle of Nivelle and at the Battle of the Nive in 1813.[1] He was captured fighting the French sortie at the Battle of Bayonne in 1814.[4]

He served as Lord-Lieutenant of Linlithgowshire from 1816 to 1823. On 17 May 1814, two years before he succeeded in the earldom, he was raised to the peerage in his own right as Baron Niddry, of Niddry Castle in the County of Linlithgow, with remainder to the male issue of his father. In 1816 he succeeded his elder half-brother as fourth Earl of Hopetoun.

He died in Paris, France on 27 August 1823.

Family

In 1798 Lord Hopetoun married firstly Elizabeth Hope Vere (or Weir) of Craigiehall, daughter of Charles Hope-Weir. After her death he married secondly Louisa Dorothea Wedderburn, daughter of John Wedderburn of Ballendean, and granddaughter of Sir John Wedderburn, 5th Baronet of Blackness.

On his death he was succeeded in his titles by his eldest son from his second marriage, John. Lady Hopetoun died in 1836.

Monuments

Following Lord Hopetoun's death, the Hopetoun Monument was erected on Byres Hill, East Lothian, in 1824.[5] This was followed in 1826 by a similar monument on Mount Hill in Fife.[6] In 1824 the city of Edinburgh commissioned a bronze statue of Lord Hopetoun, by Thomas Campbell, and originally designed as a centrepiece for Charlotte Square in 1829, but which was eventually placed in St Andrew Square in 1834, in front of Dundas House where he had acted as vice governor of the bank.[1][7]

A boarding house at Wellington College, Berkshire, has been named after him. It has recently{{when|date=August 2018}} been turned into a girls house.

Notes

1. ^10 11 Earl of Hopetoun at Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
2. ^{{London Gazette|issue=15817|page=797|date=18 June 1805}}
3. ^{{cite web|url=https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=WstDAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA369|title=The Gentleman's Magazine|publisher=|accessdate=4 December 2015}}
4. ^{{Cite book|title=The Napoleonic Wars Data Book|last=Smith|first=Digby|publisher=Greenhill|year=1998|isbn=1-85367-276-9|location=|pages=524}}
5. ^{{Historic Environment Scotland|num=LB10831|desc=HOPETOUN MONUMENT|cat=B|access-date=20 December 2018}}
6. ^{{Historic Environment Scotland|num=LB17428|desc=MOUNT HILL, HOPETOUN MONUMENT (TO SIR JOHN HOPE OF OVER RANKEILOUR)|cat=B|access-date=20 December 2018|fewer-links=yes}}
7. ^{{Historic Environment Scotland|num= LB27862|desc=ST ANDREW SQUARE, MONUMENT TO JOHN, 4TH EARL OF HOPETOUN |cat=A|access-date=20 December 2018|fewer-links=yes}}

References

  • Kidd, Charles, Williamson, David (editors). Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage (1990 edition). New York: St Martin's Press, 1990, {{Page needed |date=February 2013}}
  • {{Rayment|date=February 2012}}
  • {{cite web |last=Lundy |first=Darryl |url=http://www.thepeerage.com/info.htm |title=FAQ |publisher=}}{{Verify credibility|failed=y |date=February 2013}}
  • Smith, Digby. The Napoleonic Wars Data Book. London: Greenhill, 1998.{{ISBN|1-85367-276-9}}

External links

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