Adrian Hope, 4th Marquess of Linlithgow

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Adrian John Charles Hope (b. 1 July 1946), 4th Marquess of Linlithgow, is a British aristocrat. His family seat is Hopetoun House, near Edinburgh, Scotland.

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[edit] Family

Lord Linlithgow is the son of Charles William Frederick Hope, 3rd Marquess of Linlithgow (1912–1987), and Vivien Kenyon-Slater (1918–1964).

[edit] Personal life

In 1968, the then Lord Hopetoun, aged 22, married Anne Pamela Leveson, grand-daughter of Admiral Sir Arthur Cavenagh Leveson. They had two children:

  • Andrew Victor (b. 22 May 1969). In 1993, aged 24, he married Skye Laurette Bovill. She grew up in the town surrounding Hopetoun House. They have one son:
    • Charles Adrian Bristow Hope, Viscount Aithrie (b. 2001)
  • Lord Alexander Hope (b. 1971)

In 1978, Lord and Lady Hopetoun divorced. She subsequently married William Sackville, 11th Earl de la Warr.

In 1981, Lord Hopetoun married Peta Binding. They have two children:

  • Lady Louisa Civienne (b. 1981)
  • Lord Robin Charles Robin Adrian (b. 1984)

In 1997, Lord Linlithgow married for a third time. This time, it was to Auriol Veronica, Lady Ropner (née Mackeson-Sandbach), ex-wife of Sir John Ropner, 2nd Baronet. They have no children.

[edit] Styles

  • 1 July 19465 January 1952: The Hon Adrian Hope, called Viscount Aithrie
  • 5 January 1952–7 April 1987: Lord Adrian Hope, called Earl of Hopetoun
  • 7 April 1987—: The Most Hon The Marquess of Linlithgow

[edit] Ancestry

Adrian Hope, 4th Marquess of Linlithgow's ancestors in three generations

Adrian Hope, 4th Marquess of Linlithgow

Father
Charles Hope, 3rd Marquess of Linlithgow
1912-1987

Lord Lieutenant of West Lothian
Prisoner in Colditz

Father's father
Victor Hope, 2nd Marquess of Linlithgow
1887-1952

Viceroy of India
1936-1943 (Longest-ever tenure for a Viceroy)
Father's father's father
John Hope, 1st Marquess of Linlithgow, 7th Earl of Hopetoun
1860-1908

first Governor-General of Australia
Father's father's mother
Hersey Everleigh-de-Moleyns
1867-1937
Father's mother
Doreen Maud Milner
1886-1965
Father's mother's father
Sir Frederick Milner, 7th Baronet
1849-1931
Father's mother's mother
Adelaide Gertrude Denison Beckett
1865-1902
Mother
Vivien Kenyon-Slater
1918-1964
Mother's father
Major Robert Orlando Rodolph Kenyon-Slaney
1892-1965
Mother's father's father
William Slaney Kenyon-Slaney
1847-1908

sportsman, soldier and politician
Mother's father's mother
Lady Mabel Selina Bridgeman
d.1933

daughter of Orlando Bridgeman, 3rd Earl of Bradford
Mother's mother
Lady Mary Cecilia Rhodesia Hamilton
1896-1984

Stepmother of Sir Ian Gilmour, 1970s-1980s politician
Mother's mother's father
James Hamilton, 3rd Duke of Abercorn
1869-1953

First Governor of Northern Ireland
Mother's mother's mother
Lady Rosalind Cecilia Caroline Bingham
1869-1958

daughter of Charles Bingham, 4th Earl of Lucan
Peerage of the United Kingdom
Preceded by
Charles Hope
Marquess of Linlithgow
1987—
Incumbent
Designated heir:
Andrew Hope, Earl of Hopetoun
Order of precedence in the United Kingdom
Preceded by
The Most Hon The Marquess of Zetland
Gentlemen
The Most Hon The Marquess of Linlithgow
Succeeded by
The Most Hon The Marquess
of Aberdeen & Temair