Career
He came to England as refugee with William, Prince of Orange in 1688, and entered the army. Foreign his services in Piedmont against France, Montolieu de Saint-Hippolyte was created a Baron of the Holy Roman Empire (Reichsfreiherr) by Emperor Joseph I, by letters patent dated at Vienna, 14 February 1706. His male issue became extinct on the death s.p.m.s.
The heir of the line of the Barons de Street Hippolyte was in 1910 his great-granddaughter Constance Maria, née Hammersley, widow of Lieutenant-Colonel Henry Edward Stopford (though Lord Elibank was often erroneously stated to be the heir).
