'''Lady Henrietta Johnstone''' was born on 11 November 1682 and died on 25 November 1750 at age 68. Her married name became Hope.://www.amazon.com/Lady-Harriet-Hopes-Reel-Mrs-Johnstones/dp/B004R76QRS Lady Harriot Hope's Reel] or on [ YouTube], where "Lady Hope's Reel" was a track from the album "Birth of Liberty - Music of the American Revolution."been identified (by Jerry O’Sullivan & Brian McCandless) as Lady Henrietta Johnstone (1682-1750), married to the Charles Hope (1681-1742), 1st Earl of Hopetoun in 1699. Henrietta was the daughter of William Johnstone, the first Marquess of Annandale, and bore the Earl thirteen children. One of their grandchildren was a highly decorated naval officer who fought in the Battle of Trafalgar. Charles Hope was a Member of Parliament for Linlithgow in 1702, a Privy Councillor in 1702, and an Earl by 1703; he was a supporter of the Treaty of Union, wedding England and Scotland in 1707. Further titles followed. He was responsible for the erection of Hopetoun House, designed by Sir William Bruce, a prominent period architect. Henrietta herself inherited the estates and titles of the Johnstone family upon the death of her brother, James Johnstone (who thereby disinherited their half-brothers), but she held them only briefly before they went to another member of the family, George. Unfortunately, George (who never married), Marquess of Annandale, was declared legally insane in 1748, and Henrietta’s son, John Hope, 2nd Earl of Hopetoun, was appointed ‘trustee in lunacy” for his half-uncle.ady Margaret Hamilton, on 31 August 1699.opetoun+2 b. 7 Sep 1704, d. 12 Feb 1781c 1791 d. 24 Dec 1727can Warrand and Lord Howard de Walden, editors, The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct or Dormant, new ed., 13 volumes in 14 (1910-1959; reprint in 6 volumes, Gloucester, U.K.: Alan Sutton Publishing, 2000), volume I, page 167. Hereinafter cited as The Complete Peerage., 106th edition, 2 volumes (Crans, Switzerland: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd, 1999), volume 1, page 81. Hereinafter cited as Burke's Peerage and Baronetage, 106th edition. and others, The Complete Peerage, volume I, page 167, says 29 November..: Burke's Peerage (Genealogical Books) Ltd, 2003), volume 2, page 2356. Hereinafter cited as Burke's Peerage and Baronetage, 107th edition.7th edition, volume 2, page 2353.
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