NAME AUTHORITIES: NRA: Hope Sir William Johnstone (1766-1831) Knight Vice Admiral DNB: Hope, Sir William Johnstone (1766-1831), naval officer and politician LBT ID: WiHope1831 | B/BAP: 1766-08-16 DIED: 1831-05-02 |
SOURCES: DNB; thePeerage.com | |
Naval officer and MP for Dumfries (1800-02) and Dumfries-shire (1804-30) aligned with
Lord Melville; he was an acquaintance of Lady Byron. | |
CORRESPONDENCE OF Sir William Johnstone Hope: Sir William Johnstone Hope to William Jerdan, 22 August 1814 in The Autobiography of William Jerdan. 4 vols (London: Arthur Hall, Vertue & Co., 1852-53) |