Victor Hope, 2nd Marquess of Linlithgow

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Victor Alexander John Hope, 2nd Marquess of Linlithgow

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Birthplace: Hopetoun House, West Lothian, Scotland (United Kingdom)
Death: January 05, 1952 (64)
South Queensferry, West Lothian, Scotland, United Kingdom
Immediate Family:

Son of John Hope, 7th Earl of Hopetoun and Hersey Hope, Marchioness of Linlithgow
Husband of Doreen Maud Hope, Marchioness of Linlithgow
Father of John Hope, 1st Baron Glendevon; Charles William Frederick Hope, 3rd Marquess of Linlithgow; Lady Anne Adeline Southby; Lady Joan Isabella Gore-Langton and Lady Doreen Hersey Winifred Hope
Brother of Charles Melbourne Hope and Lady Mary Dorothea Herbert, Countess of Pembroke, CVO

Occupation: politician, agriculturalist, and colonial administrator; Governor-General & Viceroy of India; president of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Chancellor of the University of Edinburgh; Lord High Commissioner to the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland
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About Victor Hope, 2nd Marquess of Linlithgow

Victor Alexander John Hope, 2nd Marquess of Linlithgow, KG, KT, GCSI, GCIE, OBE, TD, PC, FRSE (24 September 1887 – 5 January 1952) was a British Unionist politician, agriculturalist, and colonial administrator. He served as Governor-General and Viceroy of India from 1936 to 1943. He was usually referred to simply as Linlithgow.

He served as vice president of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, Chancellor of the University of Edinburgh and Lord High Commissioner to the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland.

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Victor Hope, 2nd Marquess of Linlithgow's Timeline

1887
September 24, 1887
Hopetoun House, West Lothian, Scotland (United Kingdom)
1912
April 7, 1912
April 7, 1912
1914
January 27, 1914
1915
September 21, 1915
Hastings, East Sussex, England, United Kingdom
1920
June 17, 1920
Scotland, United Kingdom
1952
January 5, 1952
Age 64
South Queensferry, West Lothian, Scotland, United Kingdom