John Hope (British Army officer)

Lieutenant-general Sir John Hope Kt GCH (15 July 1765 – August 1836) was a Scottish officer of the British Army who was a commander under the Duke of Wellington in the Peninsular War.

Career
John Hope, son of John Hope (1739–1785), joined the Scots Brigade as a cadet in 1787. The Brigade, in the service of the Dutch Republic, was then stationed at Bergen op Zoom and later moved to Maastricht. He had reached the rank of Captain when like other officers he left the Dutch service in 1782 during the Fourth Anglo-Dutch War and was on half-pay until 1787 when he joined the 60th Foot, but the regiment was reduced and he was briefly on half-pay again before joining the 13th Light Dragoons in 1788. From 1792 he was aide-de-camp to Sir William Erskine in the Flanders Campaign. After Erskine died in 1795 Hope was promoted to major in the 28th Light Dragoons, then in 1796 he became lieutenant-colonel of that regiment and commanded it at the Cape Colony until 1799 when he returned to England and commanded the 37th Foot in the West Indies until 1804. He was deputy-adjutant-general under Lord Cathcart at Hanover and then at Copenhagen. In 1812 he was sent to the Peninsula and commanded a brigade of the 5th Division at the Battle of Salamanca (where his second cousin Sir John Hope commanded the 7th Division).

John Hope was made a Knight Grand Cross of the Royal Guelphic Order in 1820, although this being a Hanoverian order he was not called Sir John until he was made a Knight Bachelor in 1821.