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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Death 1952

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