Lady Henrietta Hope

Lady Henrietta Johnstone was born on 11 November 1682 and died on 25 November 1750 at age 68. Her married name became Hope.

Listen to a sample of the Scottish reel named after her here: Lady Harriot Hope's Reel or on YouTube, where "Lady Hope's Reel" was a track from the album "Birth of Liberty - Music of the American Revolution."

Biography

• from The Fiddler's Companion

Lady Harriet/Harriot Hope has been identified (by Jerry O’Sullivan & Brian McCandless) as Lady Henrietta Johnstone (1682-1750), married to the Charles Hope (1681-1742), 1st Earl of Hopetoun in 1699. Henrietta was the daughter of William Johnstone, the first Marquess of Annandale, and bore the Earl thirteen children. One of their grandchildren was a highly decorated naval officer who fought in the Battle of Trafalgar. Charles Hope was a Member of Parliament for Linlithgow in 1702, a Privy Councillor in 1702, and an Earl by 1703; he was a supporter of the Treaty of Union, wedding England and Scotland in 1707. Further titles followed. He was responsible for the erection of Hopetoun House, designed by Sir William Bruce, a prominent period architect. Henrietta herself inherited the estates and titles of the Johnstone family upon the death of her brother, James Johnstone (who thereby disinherited their half-brothers), but she held them only briefly before they went to another member of the family, George. Unfortunately, George (who never married), Marquess of Annandale, was declared legally insane in 1748, and Henrietta’s son, John Hope, 2nd Earl of Hopetoun, was appointed ‘trustee in lunacy” for his half-uncle.

Family

• parents: daughter of Sir William Johnstone, 1st Marquess of Annandale and Sophia Fairholm.

Married

1. Charles Hope, 1st Earl of Hopetoun, son of John Hope of Hopetoun and Lady Margaret Hamilton, on 31 August 1699.

Children of Lady Henrietta Johnstone and Charles Hope, 1st Earl of Hopetoun

1. Lady Sophia Hope4 b. 31 May 1702, d. 25 Apr 1761
2. John Hope, 2nd Earl of Hopetoun+2 b. 7 Sep 1704, d. 12 Feb 1781
3. Lady Henrietta Hope+4 b. 21 Feb 1706, d. 17 Feb 1745
4. Lady Margaret Hope b. 19 Dec 1708, d. 13 Jan 1778
5. Hon. Charles Hope-Vere+5 b. 8 May 1710, d. 30 Dec 1791
6. Lady Helen Hope+6 b. 27 Jul 1711, d. 26 Dec 1778
7. Lady Christian Hope6 b. 21 Mar 1714, d. 31 May 1799
8. Hon. William Hope6 b. 3 Jun 1715, d. 24 Nov 1715
9. Lady Anne Hope6 b. 22 Jul 1718, d. 24 Dec 1727
10. Lady Charlotte Hope b. 9 Mar 1720, d. 24 Nov 1788
11. Lady Rachel Hope6 b. 11 Jul 1721

Citations

1. [S6] G.E. Cokayne; with Vicary Gibbs, H.A. Doubleday, Geoffrey H. White, Duncan Warrand and Lord Howard de Walden, editors, The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct or Dormant, new ed., 13 volumes in 14 (1910-1959; reprint in 6 volumes, Gloucester, U.K.: Alan Sutton Publishing, 2000), volume I, page 167. Hereinafter cited as The Complete Peerage.
2. [S8] Charles Mosley, editor, Burke's Peerage and Baronetage, 106th edition, 2 volumes (Crans, Switzerland: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd, 1999), volume 1, page 81. Hereinafter cited as Burke's Peerage and Baronetage, 106th edition.
3. [S6] Cokayne, and others, The Complete Peerage, volume I, page 167, says 29 November.
4. [S37] Charles Mosley, editor, Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage, 107th edition, 3 volumes (Wilmington, Delaware, U.S.A.: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd, 2003), volume 2, page 2356. Hereinafter cited as Burke's Peerage and Baronetage, 107th edition.
5. [S37] Charles Mosley, Burke's Peerage and Baronetage, 107th edition, volume 2, page 2353.
6. [S3508] S. Thomson, "email: Kirwan Family," e-mail message to Darryl Roger Lundy, 16 January 2009 - 12 February 2010. Hereinafter cited as "email: Kirwan Family."

Links

• the peerage.com