Believed extinct or lost

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Bred by Thomas Johnson (1821-1907) (Australia, 1889).

Hybrid Perpetual.  

Deep crimson maroon.  

USDA zone 6b and warmer.  

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There apparently was another 'Earl of Hopetoun' rose raised by J. Burton, Woodrow Nursery, Heidelberg, prior to 1894. Refer 1894 reference.

The person, the Earl of Hopetoun is described by the following website:
http://bendigolive.com/australia/h/default.htm
The Biography of Australia. Early Australians.
John Adrian Louis Hope, seventh Earl of Hopetoun and first Marquis of Linlithgow....was born at Hopetoun, Scotland, on 25 September, 1860. He was educated at Eton and Sandhurst, where he passed in 1879 but did not enter the army. In 1883 he became conservative whip in the house of lords, in 1885 a lord in waiting to Queen Victoria, and for the years 1887 to 1889 represented the Queen as lord high commissioner to the general assembly of the Church of Scotland. He was appointed governor of Victoria in 1889 and arrived in Melbourne on 28 November. A period of inflation was just coming to an end, and though efforts were made to bolster up a financial structure basically false, the position steadily deteriorated, and in May 1893 all the banks in Melbourne except four closed their doors and a long depression followed. Hopetoun travelled throughout the colony making a high favourable impression on all he met. No other governor had ever been so popular and he left Australia in March 1895 to the regret of all. After his return to great Britain he was made a privy councillor, was appointed paymaster-general in the Salisbury government from 1895 to 1898, and then became lord chamberlain until 1900. In October he was appointed the first governor-general of Australia, arrived there in December and took part in the inauguration of the Commonwealth of Australia by the Duke of York on 1 January 1901. ....He died on 29 February, 1908.