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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. ==Personal life and family== 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.〔Heathcote p.68〕 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.〔Heathcote pp.69 - 70〕
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