Hope-Johnstone family of Raehills

The Johnstones, a prominent Border family, had land in Dumfriesshire by the 13th century, and rose to the peerage in the 17th century. James Johnstone, 2nd Earl of Hartfell, was created Earl of Annandale in 1661, and his son William, Marquess of Annandale in 1701. William married first Sophia, heiress of John Fairholme of Craigiehall (West Lothian) and second Charlotte, heiress of John Vanden Bempde of Hackness (Yorkshire, North Riding).

On the death of the 3rd Marquess without issue in 1792 the Scottish estates passed to his great-nephew, the 3rd Earl of Hopetoun (see Hope, Marquesses of Linlithgow), and then to Lord Hopetoun's eldest daughter Anne (d. 1818), wife of Admiral Sir William Johnstone Hope (1766-1831). Her descendant established his claim to the earldom of Annandale in 1986. The Yorkshire estate, however, was inherited by Sir Richard Vanden Bempde Johnstone (1732-1807), 1st baronet, of Hackness, son of John Johnstone (a younger son of Sir William Johnstone of Westerhall, Dumfriesshire) by Charlotte, Marchioness of Annandale. His descendant was created Baron Derwent in 1881.

The Craigiehall (West Lothian) estate passed to Henrietta Johnstone, daughter of the 1st Marquess of Annandale, who married the 1st Earl of Hopetoun, and thence to their second son, Lord Charles Hope-Vere (1710-91).

Estates in 1883: 64,079 acres in Dumfriesshire and 1,287 acres in Lanarkshire, worth a total of £28,236 a year.