Hope, Victor Alexander John, 1887-1952, 2nd Marquess of Linlithgow, viceroy of India

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1923 chairman, committee on the distribution and prices of agricultural produce; 1922-1924 civil lord of the Admiralty; 1924-1926 deputy chairman, the Unionist Party Organisation; 1924-1931 president, the Navy League; 1924-1933 president, Edinburgh and East Scotland College of Agriculture; 1926-1928 chairman, royal commission on agriculture in India; 1933-34 chairman, joint select committee on Indian reform; 1934-1936 chairman, Medical Research Council and the governing body of the Imperial College of Science and Technology; 1936-1943 Viceroy of India; 1944-1945 lord high commissioner of the Church of Scotland; 1944-1952 chancellor, Edinburgh University; 1944-1952 chairman, board of trustees of the National Gallery of Scotland.

Honours: 1928 KT; 1929 GCIE; 1935 PG; 1936 GCSI; 1945 KG.

Epithet: viceroy of India

Title: 2nd Marquess of Linlithgow

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referencedIn Letters and journals of Sidney Ralli, broadcaster and journalist, daughter of Maj-Gen Charles John Bruce Hay, and wife of Charles Ralli of Ralli Bros, a cotton broking firm in Karachi, 1939-1943 British Library
referencedIn Keith Haines papers., 1900-1951 British Library
referencedIn Papers of Sir Hugh Dow, Indian Civil Service 1910-47, Governor of Sind 1941-46, Governor of Bihar 1946-47, 1847-1976 British Library
creatorOf Papers of 2nd Marquess of Linlithgow as Viceroy of India 1936-43, 1936-1943 British Library
creatorOf CHARNWOOD AUTOGRAPHS. Vol. I. English historical autographs, etc., circa 16th-20th cent. Included are Henry VII, Charles I, Oliver Cromwell, William III, Anne, and George II; Sir Philip Sidney, Thomas Wentworth, 1st Earl of Strafford, Thomas, 3rd Bar..., approximately 16th century-20th century British Library
referencedIn Lady Doreen Hersey Winifred Prior Palmer papers., 1936-1940 British Library
referencedIn Patrick Henry James Southby papers., 1938 British Library
referencedIn Papers of 5th Baron Brabourne, Governor of Bombay 1933-37, Governor of Bengal 1937-39, and Viceroy and acting Governor General of India Jun-Oct 1938, 1933-1939 British Library
referencedIn Walter Henry John Christie papers., 1931-1948 British Library
referencedIn Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi papers., 1937-1943 British Library
referencedIn Papers of Lord Erskine as Governor of Madras 1934-40, 1934-1940 British Library
referencedIn Papers of Sir Henry Twynam, Indian Civil Service, 1910-46; Governor of Central Provinces and Berar 1940-46, 1940-1946 British Library
referencedIn Gwyer-Strudwick Collection: papers, dated 1932-1955, of Sir Maurice Linford Gwyer (1878-1952), 1932-1955 British Library
referencedIn Papers of Sir John Gilbert Laithwaite, British Civil Servant 1919-59, Private Secretary to the Viceroy 1936-43, 1916-1974 British Library
referencedIn Papers of Sir John Anderson, lst Viscount Waverley, chiefly as Governor of Bengal 1932-37, 1919-1958 British Library
referencedIn Papers of Sir Reginald Dorman-Smith, Governor of Burma 1941-46, 1941-1946 British Library
referencedIn Papers of 2nd Marquess of Zetland as Governor of Bengal 1917-22, and Secretary of State for India 1935-40, 1910-1952 British Library
referencedIn Courtenay Parker Bramble papers., 1922-1946 British Library
referencedIn Papers of Sir Harry Haig as Home Member, Governor-General's Council 1932-34, and Governor of United Provinces 1934-39, 1932-1939 British Library
creatorOf Victor Alexander John Hope papers. British Library
referencedIn Permanent Under Secretaries Collection, 1920-1948 British Library
referencedIn Papers of Sir Roger Lumley, Governor of Bombay 1937-43, 1937-1968 British Library
creatorOf WRENCH PAPERS. Vol. V (ff. 144). The first letter is addressed to Wrench's mother, Charlotte. Others relate to Wrench's duties as American relations officer to the Government of India, 1942-1944; 1913-1944.includes:f. 1 Very Reverend Lionel George Br..., 1913-1944 British Library
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