What is John Hope, 1st Marquess of Linlithgow?
'''John Adrian Louis Hope, 1st Marquess of Linlithgow''' [[Order of the Thistle|KT]], [[Order of St Michael and St George|GCMG]], [[Royal Victorian Order|GCVO]], [[Privy Council of the United Kingdom|PC]] (25 September 1860 - 29 February 1908), known as '''Viscount Aithrie''' before 1873 and as '''The 7th Earl of Hopetoun''' between 1873 and 1902, was the first [[Governor-General of Australia]]. Hope was born at [[South Queensferry]], [[West Lothian]] in [[Scotland]]. He was the eldest son of the [[John Hope, 6th Earl of Hopetoun|6th Earl of Hopetoun]]. He was educated at [[Eton College]] and the [[Royal Military Academy Sandhurst]], where he passed in 1879 but did not join the Army. He looked after the family houses and lands. In 1883 he became active in the [[House of Lords]]. He served as a [[Lord in Waiting]] from June 1885 to January 1886 and August 1886 to August 1889. ==Governor== In 1889 he was made the [[Governor of Victoria]], where he served until 1895. He went back to the United Kingdom and was made a [[Privy Council of the United Kingdom|privy councillor]]. He became the Paymaster-General from 1895 to 1898, and then [[Lord Chamberlain]] until 1900. The Australian colonies joined together to form the Commonwealth of Australia from 1 January 1901. Hopetoun was well liked in [[Victoria (Australia)|Victoria]] and he knew all the important Australian politicians. This made him a good choice to be the first Governor-General of the Commonwealth, and he was appointed in July 1900. In India, on his way to Australia, he got [[typhoid]] fever and [[Hersey, Marchioness of Linlithgow|his wife]] got [[malaria]]. They arrived in December 1900. ==Governor-General== Hopetoun's first job was to choose a Prime Minister to form a government, which would start on 1 January 1901. The first elections were not going to be held until March, so he could not choose the leader of the biggest political party in the House of Representatives. Instead, he asked Sir [[William Lyne]], the Premier of the largest state, [[New South