WILLIAM JAMES HOPE JOHNSTONE, Esq.
[Post-Captain of 1823.]
Second son of Vice-Admiral Sir William Johnstone Hope, G.C.B., M.P., Treasurer and Receiver-General of the Royal Hospital at Greenwich, by Lady Anne, eldest daughter of James, third Earl of Hopetown, who, at the demise of his grand-uncle, George, Marquis of Annandale, in 1792, inherited the large estates of that nobleman, and the earldoms of Annandale and Hartfield; neither of which dignities did he, however, assume, but simply added the family name of the deceased marquis, Johnstone, to that of Hope[1].
Mr. William J. Hope Johnstone was born, July 28th, 1798; and entered the naval service, as midshipman on board the Sarpedon brig, in June, 1811. He subsequently served in the Adamant 50, Captain John Sykes; Venerable 74, Captain Sir Home Popham; Stirling Castle 74, commanded by the same officer, and employed in conveying the Earl of Moira (afterwards Marquis of Hastings) to Bengal; Latona, receiving-ship at Leith, Captain Andrew Smith; Endymion 40, Captain Henry Hope; Tagus 38, Captain J. W. Deans Dundas; Satellite sloop, Captain James Murray; and Ramillies 74, Captain Thomas Boys. In the Venerable, he was present at the reduction of Lequitio and Castro, on the north coast of Spain; also at the attacks made upon Puerta Galetta, Guetaria, and Santander; and at the destruction of the fortifications of Bermeo, Plencia, Galea, Algorta, Begona, El Campillo las Quersas, and Xebiles, in the summer of 1812[2]. The Latona and Ramillies bore the flag of his father, as commander-in-chief on the coast of Scotland, in 1813 and the five succeeding years. His first commission bears date May 2d, 1818.
In June, 1819, Lieutenant Johnstone was appointed to the
- ↑ Sir W. Johnstone Hope’s eldest son now claims the earldom of Annandale in light of his mother.
- ↑ See Vol. II. Part II. pp. 523–527.
