James Hope

James Hope

Admiral of the Fleet Sir James Hope (3 March 1808–9 June 1881),GCB was a Royal Navy officer and Admiral of the Fleet.

He entered the Royal Naval College, Portsmouth in 1820. Promoted to Vice Admiral in 1864, Admiral in 1870 and finally to Admiral of the Fleet on June 15 1879, he was also appointed GCB in 1865.

He was Commander-in-Chief in the East Indian and China seas from 1859 to 1862, in the West Indies and North America in 1864, and at Portsmouth from 1869 to 1872.

He married Frederica Kinnaird, the daughter of Charles Kinnaird, 8th Lord Kinnaird on 16 August 1838 but was widowered on 27 May 1856. He remarried, to Elizabeth Cotton, daughter of General Sir Arthur Cotton on 6 December 1877, but died shortly afterwards.

ee also

*Second Opium War
*Battle of Shanghai (1861)

References


* Debrett's Baronetage with Knightage 1876, "Dean & Son, London, 1876"


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