John Hope (British Army officer)
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Sir John Hope
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| Born | 15 July 1765 |
| Died | August 1836 (aged 71) |
| Allegiance |
 Kingdom of Great Britain (pre Acts of Union 1800) United Kingdom (post Acts of Union 1800) |
| Service/branch |
 British Army
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| Rank | Lieutenant-general |
| Battles/wars |
Napoleonic Wars Peninsular War |
Lieutenant-General Sir John Hope GCH (15 July 1765 – August 1836) was a Scottish officer of the British Army who was a commander under the Duke of Wellington during the Peninsular War.
John Hope was born 15 July 1765. His father was the politician and writer of the same name. His mother, Mary, committed suicide in June 1767, leaving young John and his two brothers, Charles and William, to be cared for by their father. Charles Hope became a Member of Parliament and high court judge, while William Johnstone Hope joined the Royal Navy, eventually rising to the rank of Vice Admiral.
Hope married the daughter of a Scottish laird, Margaret Scott of Logie, Forfar, on 20 September 1806. She bore him three daughters but died in March 1813, while Hope was at home recuperating, following the Battle of Salamanca. Hope married again the following year to Jane Hester Macdougall, with whom he had ten children, although only four survived infancy.
Hope died in August 1836 and in 1856, his widow, Jane, married the Reverend William Knight, the nephew of Jane Austen. Jane Knight died in Brighton in 1880, at the age of ninety, having also outlived her second husband.
Hope joined the Scots Brigade as a cadet in 1778. The Brigade, in the service of the Dutch Republic, was then stationed at Bergen op Zoom and later moved to Maastricht. He had reached the rank of Captain when like other officers he left the Dutch service in 1782 during the Fourth Anglo-Dutch War and was on half-pay until 29 September 1787, when he joined the 60th Foot (Royal American Regiment), but the regiment was reduced and he was briefly on half-pay again before joining the 13th Light Dragoons on 30 June 1788. In February 1793, shortly after the French Revolutionary War had begun, Hope served as aide-de-camp to Sir William Erskine in the Flanders Campaign. On 25 March 1795, a few days after Erskine's death, Hope was promoted to major in the 28th Light Dragoons, becoming lieutenant-colonel of that regiment on 20 February 1796. Sent to the Cape Colony, the 28th, under Hope's command, helped to rebuff a Dutch attempt in August, to reclaim the colony.
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