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Complete Baronetage.
[volume 3, page 305]
- HAMILTON
- cr. probably about 1660 ; afterwards, since 1701 Earls of Abercorn [S.] ; since 1790, Marquesses of Abercorn [G.B.] ; and, since 1868, Dukes of Abercorn [I.].
I. 1660 ?
The Hon. George Hamilton, of Donalong, co. Tyrone, and of Nenagh, co. Tipperary, 4th s. of James (Hamilton), 1st Earl of Abercorn [S.], by Marion, da. of Thomas (Boyd) 5th Lord Boyd [S.], was b. probably about 1607 ; had a company in the Army in 1627 ; did good service, in Ireland, for Charles I, as also, in 1649, for Charles II, at which date he was Col. of Foot and Gov. of Nenagh Castle, but retired to France in 1651 till the Restoration, about which period [1660 ?] he is said(305a) to have been cr. a Baronet [I.], being also rewarded with some small patent places. He m. in 1629 Mary, sister of James, 1st Duke of Ormonde [I. and E.], 3d. da. of Thomas Butler, styled Viscount Thurles, by Elizabeth, da. of Sir John Poyntz. He d. 1679. His widow d. Aug. 1680.
II. 1679.
James Hamilton, of Donalong aforesaid, grandson and h., being 1st s. and h. of Col. James Hamilton, Groom of the Bedchamber, by Elizabeth, da. of John (Colepeper) 1st Baron Colepeper of Thoresway, which James (who d. v.p. of wounds received in an action against the Dutch, 6 and was bur. 7 June 1673, in Westm. Abbey) was 1st s. and h. ap. of the late Baronet.(305b) He was b. about 1661 and was at the age of 17, in 1678, Groom of the Bedchamber. On the death of his grandfather, in 1679, he suc. to the Baronetcy, but appears never to have assumed it.(305c) He was Col. of a Regiment and P.C. to James II, but, deserting him at the Revolution, took part in the defence of Londonderry in 1689. He was M.P. [I.] for co. Tyrone, 1692–93 and 1695–99. He m. (Lic. Fac. 24 Jan. 1683/4) Elizabeth (then aged 15), only child of Sir Robert Reading, Baronet [I., so cr. 1675], by Jane, Dowager Countess of Mountrath [I.], da. of Sir Robert Hannay, Baronet [S. 1630]. She was living when in June 1701 he suc. to the Peerage as EARL OF ABERCORN [S.]. In that peerage this Baronetcy then merged, the 9th Earl being cr. 15 Oct. 1790 MARQUESS OF ABERCORN [G.B.] and the 2d Marquess being cr. 10 Aug. 1868 DUKE OF ABERCORN [I.]. See Peerage.
Notes.
(305a) Beatson's List, where the date is given as 1660 ; so also in Wood's Douglas' Peerage [S.]. He was “ certainly a Baronet in 1662, probably much earlier ” [G. D. Burtchaell]. In Lodge's Irish Peerage (edit. 1789, vol. v, p. 3) the Baronetcy is said to have been one of Nova Scotia.
(305b) He and his younger brother Sir George Hamilton, Count Hamilton in France, play a conspicuous part in the Memoires de Grammont (compiled by their brother Anthony, Count Hamilton), their sister Elizabeth “ La belle Hamilton ” having m. Philibert Count de Grammont, thus commemorated.
(305c) This non-assumption of the dignity throws some little doubt on its creation.
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