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Sir W. J. Hope was born 16 Aug. 1766, and entered the Navy in 1776. He commanded the Bellerophon 74, as Flag-Captain to Rear-Admiral Thomas Pasley, and obtained a gold medal for his services, in the actions of 28 and 29 May and 1 June, 1794. He afterwards served on board the Kent 74, bearing the flag of Lord Duncan, during the expedition to Holland in 1799. With the despatches announcing the results of that enterprise he was sent to England; and he was in consequence presented with a purse of 500l. in Dec. 1800, being still in the Kent, he conveyed Sir Ralph Abercromby from Gibraltar to Egypt. He was nominated a Colonel of Marines in 1811; advanced to the rank of Rear-Admiral in 1812; appointed to the chief command at Leith in Nov. 1813; created a K.C.B. in 1815; re-appointed to Leith in 1816; made a Vice-Admiral in 1819; invested with the dignity of a G.C.B. in 1 825; and sworn a Privy Councillor about the close of 1830. Sir W. J. Hope, who was for a long time one of the Lords of the Admiralty, and sat for many years in Parliament tor Dumfries, died 2 May, 1831. (English)

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