John James Hope-Johnstone of Annandale DL (29 November 1796 – 11 July 1876) was a Scottish Tory politician.
Hope-Johnstone was born on 29 November 1796. He was the eldest son of Vice-Admiral Sir William Johnstone Hope GCB, and Lady Anne Hope-Johnstone, the eldest daughter of James Hope-Johnstone, 3rd Earl of Hopetoun.[1]
He was Keeper of Lochmaben Palace.[2] Hope-Johnstone was the Member of Parliament (MP) for Dumfriesshire from 1830 until 1847 and again from 1857 to 1865.[3]
He succeeded his father after the latter's retirement, reportedly at the urging of the newly crowned king William IV.[4] While in Parliament, he supported several reform bills and introduced a petition from Church of Scotland ministers supporting daily Bible classes for Protestant children in Ireland.[4]
He was appointed a Deputy Lieutenant of Dumfriesshire in 1874.[5] He was de jure 7th Earl of Annandale and Hartfell.[6] He on several occasions sought to obtain a peerage, but was ultimately unsuccessful.
On 8 July 1816 he married Alicia Anne Gordon, eldest daughter of George Gordon, Esq. He lived at Raehills in Lockerbie (where he considerably extended the house but faced "estate debts"),[4] and Hook House, Dumfriesshire. Together, they had at least eleven children, including:[4]
The cause of his death in 1876 was given as "general decay".[4] As his eldest son William predeceased him, the claim to the earldom of Annandale and Hartfell passed to his grandson, John Hope Johnstone (1842–1912).[6]
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