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  son of Vice-Admiral Sir William Johnstone Hope, G.C.B., M.P., Treasurer and Receiver-General of the Royal Hospital at Greenwich, by Lady Anne, eldest daughter of James, third Earl of Hopetown, who, at the demise of his grand-uncle, George, Marquis of Annandale, in 1792, inherited the large estates of that nobleman, and the earldoms of Annandale and Hartfield; neither of which dignities did he, however, assume, but simply added the family name of the deceased marquis, Johnstone, to that of Hope.

Mr. William J. Hope Johnstone was born, July 28th, 1798; and entered the naval service, as midshipman on board the Sarpedon brig, in June, 1811. He subsequently served in the Adamant 50, Captain John Sykes; Venerable 74, Captain Sir Home Popham; Stirling Castle 74, commanded by the same officer, and employed in conveying the Earl of Moira (afterwards Marquis of Hastings) to Bengal; Latona, receiving-ship at Leith, Captain Andrew Smith; Endymion 40, Captain Henry Hope; Tagus 38, Captain J. W. Deans Dundas; Satellite sloop, Captain James Murray; and Ramillies 74, Captain Thomas Boys. In the Venerable, he was present at the reduction of Lequitio and Castro, on the north coast of Spain; also at the attacks made upon Puerta Galetta, Guetaria, and Santander; and at the destruction of the fortifications of Bermeo, Plencia, Galea, Algorta, Begona, El Campillo las Quersas, and Xebiles, in the summer of 1812. The Latona and Ramillies bore the flag of his father, as commander-in-chief on the coast of Scotland, in 1813 and the five succeeding years. His first commission bears date May 2d, 1818.

In June, 1819, Lieutenant Johnstone was appointed to the