Admiral Sir William James Hope-Johnstone KCB

Order of the Bath

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 (28 July 1798 - 11 July 1878) was a Royal Navy

Royal Navy

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 officer who went on to be Commander-in-Chief, The Nore.

Naval career

Born the second son of Vice-Admiral Sir William Johnstone Hope

William Johnstone Hope

Vice Admiral Sir William Johnstone Hope, GCB was a prominent and controversial British Royal Navy officer and politician in late eighteenth and early nineteenth century Britain, whose career experienced fleet actions, disputes with royalty, party politics and entry to both Russian and British...

, William James Hope-Johnstone joined the Royal Navy

Royal Navy

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 in 1811. Promoted to Captain

Captain (naval)

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 in 1823, he commanded HMS Doris

HMS Doris (1808)

HMS Doris was a 36-gun fifth-rate frigate of the Royal Navy that served between 1808 and 1829. She was the second ship of the Royal Navy to be named after the mythical Greek sea nymphe Doris....

, HMS Asia

HMS Asia (1824)

HMS Asia was an 84-gun second rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy, launched on 19 January 1824 at Bombay Dockyard.She was Codrington's flagship at the Battle of Navarino....

, HMS Britannia

HMS Britannia (1820)

HMS Britannia was a 120-gun first-rate ship-of-the-line of the Royal Navy, laid down in 1813 and launched on 20 October 1820.Commissioned in 1823, she saw service in the Mediterranean from 1830-1 and in 1841...

, HMS Agincourt

HMS Agincourt (1817)

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 and then HMS Albion

HMS Albion (1842)

HMS Albion was a 90-gun second rate ship of the line of the Royal Navy. Ordered in 1839, she was built at Plymouth and launched on 6 September 1842, and entered service in 1843. Albion was designed by Sir William Symonds, was the only ship of her class to ever serve as a sailing ship, and the last...

. He was appointed Superintendent of Haslar Hospital

Royal Hospital Haslar

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 and the Royal Clarence Victualling Yard in 1852, Commander-in-Chief, South-East Coast of America in 1854 and Commander-in-Chief, The Nore in 1860.

There is a memorial to him at the Johnstone Church Burial Ground in Dumfries

Dumfries

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