General

General

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 Sir Alexander Hope GCB

Order of the Bath

The Most Honourable Order of the Bath is a British order of chivalry founded by George I on 18 May 1725. The name derives from the elaborate mediæval ceremony for creating a knight, which involved bathing as one of its elements. The knights so created were known as Knights of the Bath...

 (2 December 1769 – 19 May 1837) was a British Army

British Army

The British Army is the land warfare branch of Her Majesty's Armed Forces in the United Kingdom. It came into being with the unification of the Kingdom of England and Scotland into the Kingdom of Great Britain in 1707. The new British Army incorporated Regiments that had already existed in England...

 officer who became Governor of the Royal Military College Sandurst.

Military career

Born the son of John Hope, 2nd Earl of Hopetoun

John Hope, 2nd Earl of Hopetoun

John Hope, 2nd Earl of Hopetoun was the son of Charles Hope, 1st Earl of Hopetoun and Lady Henrietta Johnstone....

, Alexander Hope was commissioned as an ensign

Ensign (rank)

Ensign is a junior rank of a commissioned officer in the armed forces of some countries, normally in the infantry or navy. As the junior officer in an infantry regiment was traditionally the carrier of the ensign flag, the rank itself acquired the name....

 in the 63rd Regiment of Foot in 1786. He served in Flanders

Flanders

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 and Holland in 1794 to 1795. He was appointed Lieutenant-Governor of Tynemouth

Tynemouth

Tynemouth is a town and a historic borough in Tyne and Wear, England, at the mouth of the River Tyne, between North Shields and Cullercoats . It is administered as part of the borough of North Tyneside, but until 1974 was an independent county borough in its own right...

 and Cliff Fort in 1797, Lieutenant-Governor of Edinburgh Castle

Edinburgh Castle

Edinburgh Castle is a fortress which dominates the skyline of the city of Edinburgh, Scotland, from its position atop the volcanic Castle Rock. Human habitation of the site is dated back as far as the 9th century BC, although the nature of early settlement is unclear...

 in 1798 and Governor of the Royal Military College Sandurst in 1812 and went on to be Lieutenant-Governor of the Royal Hospital Chelsea

Royal Hospital Chelsea

The Royal Hospital Chelsea is a retirement home and nursing home for British soldiers who are unfit for further duty due to injury or old age, located in the Chelsea region of central London, now the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea. It is a true hospital in the original sense of the word,...

 in 1826.

He was also Member of Parliament

Member of Parliament

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 for Dumfries Burgh

Dumfries Burghs (UK Parliament constituency)

Dumfries Burghs was a district of burghs constituency of the House of Commons of Great Britain from 1708 to 1801 and of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1801 until 1918...

 from 1796 to 1800 and for Linlithgowshire

Linlithgowshire (UK Parliament constituency)

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 from 1800 to 1834.

Family

In 1805 he married Georgiana Brown; they had four sons, including George William Hope

George William Hope

George William Hope , was a British Tory politician. He served as Under-Secretary of State for War and the Colonies under Sir Robert Peel from 1841 to 1846.-Background and education:...

 and James Robert Hope-Scott, father of James Hope, 1st Baron Rankeillour, and one daughter.