1. Dear Mother:
Letters from the Great War
Research Project
By:
Sarah Klee

2. 20th Century
My Primary Period of interest
United States - Labor and Progressive Era.
Europe – World War I

3. Hopetoun House

4. Lord John Adrian Lewis Hope

5. His Family

6. Dowager Marchioness
Hersey Hope

7. Managed by the British
Red Cross and funded by
the Hope Family

8. Lord Victor Alexander John Hope
Attended Eton
2nd Marquess of Linlithgow 1908
Married Doreen Maud Milner
Served in World War One

9. Lord Charles
Melbourne Hope
Attended Eton
Joined the Territorial Army
1910 commissioned with the
Lothian and Border Horse
Yeomanry
1911 commissioned with the 1st
Life Guards
1914 commissioned with the
Lothian and Border Horse
Yeomanry

10. Both wrote home from
France and Salonika
from 1915-1916

11. Post World War One
 Lord Linlithgow
 Order of the British Empire
 Captain of the Royal Company
of Archers
 Privy Chancellor
 Became the longest serving
Viceroy of India
 Knight of the Order of the
Thistle
 Knight of the Order of the
Garter
 Lord High Commissioner to the
General Assembly of the
Church of Scotland
 Declines Dukedom
 And more…
 Lord Hope
 Served in World War Two
 Became Deputy Lieutenant of
West Lothian
 Should have been awarded
 1914/15 Star
 British War Medal
 Victory Medal

12. Researching Methods
 Talking to the Guides
 Online
 National Archives
 Encyclopedia Britannica
 Oxford
 London Gazette Archives
 Edinburgh Gazette
Archives
 National Scottish Museum
 Hopetoun House Paper
Trust- Archives

13. Thank You

14. Citiations
 Hopetoun House Paper Trust
 Edinburgh Gazette
 London Gazette
 Time Magazine
 British Red Cross
 The National Achives