coast of Scotland, in the spring of 1816, where he continued until Sept. 1818. In Jan. 1820, he again became a Lord of the Admiralty, on which occasion he succeeded Sir Graham Moore, who had been appointed to the command in the Mediterranean. His promotion to the rank of Vice-Admiral took place Aug. 12, 1819.
Sir Wm. Johnstone Hope is representative in Parliament for the shire of Dumfries[1]. He married 1st, July 8, 1792, the Lady Anne Johnstone Hope, eldest daughter of James, 3d Earl of Hopetoun, and by her (who died at Roehill, N.B. in Aug. 1818,) had issue four sons, three of whom are officers in the Royal Navy, and two daughters. 2dly. Oct. 30, 1821, Maria, daughter of Sir John Eden, Bart., of West Auckland and Windlestone, co. Durham, and relict of Frederick William, 7th Earl of Athlone.
A portrait of Sir William Johnstone Hope, in the uniform of a Post-Captain, is prefixed to his Memoir in the Naval Chronicle, v. 18, p. 269.
RIGHT HON. LORD HENRY PAULET,
Vice-Admiral of the Blue, and Knight Commander of the most honorable Military Order of the Bath.
This officer is the youngest son of George, twelfth Marquis of Winchester, whose ancestor Hercules, lord of Tournon, in Picardy, came to England in the reign of Henry I. and settling in the lordship of Paulet, co. Hants, assumed the name of the place of his residence, as was universally the custom at that period.
- ↑ In June 1800, whilst absent in the service of his country, Captain Hope was elected M.P. for the Dumfries district of Burghs; and in Oct. 1804, the county of Dumfries having lost its representative, by the death of General Sir Robert Laurie, he was unanimously returned as the knight of that shire; and on that occasion, agreeably to an ancient local custom, was invested with a sword immediately after the election.
At the general election which succeeded the dissolution of Parliament, in Oct. 1806, he was again chosen for the same place, after encountering a violent opposition, raised against him under the influence of the party then in power, in which scarcely any means were left untried that presented a probability of thwarting his views.
