He succeeded his father after the latter's retirement, reportedly at the urging of the newly crowned king William IV.[4] While in Parliament, he supported several reform bills and introduced a petition from Church of Scotland ministers supporting daily Bible classes for Protestant children in Ireland.[4]
On 8 July 1816 he married Alicia Anne Gordon, eldest daughter of George Gordon, Esq. He lived at Raehills in Lockerbie (where he considerably extended the house but faced "estate debts"),[4] and Hook House, Dumfriesshire. Together, they had at least eleven children, including:[4]
George Gordon Hope Johnstone (1820–1866), a Captain who married Adelaide Mary Wentworth Sinclair, daughter of Sir George Sinclair, 2nd Baronet, in 1845.[6]
Robert Gordon Hope Johnstone (1829–1890), who married Agnes Swanson, daughter of Col. John Swanson, in 1855.[6]
Charles Hope Johnstone (1830–1855), a Lieutenant in the Royal Navy.[6]
David Baird Hope Johnstone (d. 1886), a Captain in the 92nd Highlanders who married Margaret Elizabeth Grierson, daughter of Lt.-Col. William Grierson, in 1860. After they divorced, he married Eliza Archer, daughter of T. Archer, in 1874.[6]
^Oliver & Boyd's New Edinburgh Almanac and National Repository, 1845.
^Craig, F. W. S. (1989) [1977]. British parliamentary election results 1832–1885 (2nd ed.). Chichester: Parliamentary Research Services. p. 581. ISBN0-900178-26-4.
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