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| | OBITUARY: Lord Glendevon Independent, The (London) - Find Articles |
 | | John Hope passionately believed his father to be misunderstood and much maligned and in 1971 published a book, Viceroy At Bay, which, based on the extensive archives in Hopetoun, is required reading for a serious student of the twilight of the Raj. |
 | | His mother, Doreen, Marchioness of Linlithgow, was the daughter of Sir Frederick Milner Bt, who served as MP for York and then for Bassetlaw and was of the family of the Earl of Cromer, proconsul in Cairo. |
 | | After Eton, where he was proud to be chosen as a Fellow (or member of the governing body) from 1956 to 1967 and about which he took more than an ornamental interest, John Hope went to Christ Church, Oxford, where he read Greats and excelled as a middle-distance and mile runner. |
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