Person:Cecil Hamilton (4)

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Lady Cecil Hamilton
b.15 Mar 1770
d.19 Jun 1819
Parents and Siblings
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  1. George Hamilton - 1782
  2. Anne Hamilton1755 - 1795
  3. Mary Hamilton1756 -
  4. Harriot Hamilton1760 - 1788
  5. Catherine Hamilton1763 -
  6. Elizabeth Hamilton1765 - 1843
  7. Rachel Hamilton1766 -
  8. Jane Hamilton1768 - 1831
  9. Lady Cecil Hamilton1770 - 1819
  10. Isabella Hamilton1772 -
  11. James Hamilton1774 - 1774
Spouse and Children
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m. 4 Mar 1792
  1. Lady Cecil Frances Hamilton1795 - 1860
Spouse and Children
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m. 21 May 1799
  1. Elizabeth Mary Copley1801 - 1887
  2. Maria Copley1803 - Abt 1879
  3. Sir Joseph William Copley, 4th Baronet1804 - 1883
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Facts and Events
Name[4][5] Lady Cecil Hamilton
Married Name[6] Lady Cecil Hamilton, Marchioness of Abercorn
Married Name[7] Lady Cecil Copley
Gender Female
Birth[1][2] 15 Mar 1770
Christening[4] 3 May 1770 Taplow, Buckinghamshire, England
Marriage 4 Mar 1792 Mayfair, London, Englandin Grosvenor Square
to Most Hon. John James Hamilton, 1st Marquess of Abercorn KG PC
Separation 1798 from Most Hon. John James Hamilton, 1st Marquess of Abercorn KG PC
Divorce Apr 1799 by Act of Parliament
from Most Hon. John James Hamilton, 1st Marquess of Abercorn KG PC
Marriage 21 May 1799 St. Marylebone, London, Englandto Sir Joseph Copley, 3rd Baronet
Death[1][2] 19 Jun 1819
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Personal History

Cecil Hamilton, daughter of George Hamilton and Elizabeth[4] (Onslow), was born 15 March 1770[1][2] and was baptized 3 May 1770 in the parish of Taplow, Buckinghamshire, England.[4]

On 27 October 1789,[3] Cecil was raised to the precedency of an Earl's daughter (in the peerage of Great Britain) by Royal Warrant. The Marquess of Abercorn had used his influence to obtain the honor for her; she may have been his mistress.[1]

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Second Marriage and Family

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On 21 May 1799, in the parish of St Marylebone, Middlesex, England, Joseph Copley Esq. of the parish of St George, Hanover Square, and the Rt. Hon. Lady Cecil Hamilton were married by licence by the curate, Benj. Lawrence, in the presence of R. Onslow, L. Copley, and Rachel Hamilton. It was stated that Lady Hamilton's marriage with the Most Hon. John James Marquess of Abercorn had been dissolved by Act of Parliament.

References
  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 “Abercorn”, in Cokayne, George Edward, and Vicary Gibbs; et al. The complete peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, extant, extinct, or dormant [2nd ed.]. (London: St. Catherine Press, 1910-59)
    vol 1, pp 7–8.
    See transcript, under EARLDOM IX. John James (Hamilton), Earl of Abercorn.

    On page 7, in note e, Vicary Gibbs writes:
    This was certainly a most unusual proceeding, as neither her father (who d. s.p.m. 26 Nov. 1787) nor any of his issue ever could have suc. to the title, he having been a yr. br. of Capt. John H., ancestor of the then Peer. This favour was not extended to any of her four elder sisters; indeed the precedency was only that of the da. of an Earl, viz., one of a creation of 1789, not of 1606, as if her father had suc. to the Earldom. The explanation of this special favour is, according to Wraxall, (Posth. Mem. vol. i, pp. 63–4) highly discreditable to all the parties concerned, and implies that she had been the Marquess's mistress during his first wife's lifetime. Wraxall adds that the Marquess had used his influence with Pitt to obtain the honour for her, though not “without strong marks of repugnance being evinced by their Majesties.” George Selwyn writes to Lady Carlisle, 9 Nov. 1786, “Mr. Hamilton now Lord Hamilton but toujours magnifico will have one of his cousins a Lady as if she had been an Earl's daughter, and no other of her sisters. He will himself be Duc de Châtellerault, to which I know that he has no more pretensions than I should have to an estate that an ancestor of mine had sold a century ago.”
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 “COPLEY, cr. 28 Aug. 1778”, in Cokayne, George Edward. Complete baronetage, 1611-1800. (Exeter [England]: W. Pollard, 1900-1906)
    vol 5, p 200.

    See transcript, under III. Sir Joseph Copley.

  3. ↑ England. The London gazette. (London, England)
    no 13143, p 673, 24–27 Oct. 1789.

    Digital image (https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/13143/page/673 : accessed 15 Feb. 2018).

    “Whitehall, October 27.
    “The King has been pleased to declare and ordain, by His Royal Sign Manual, that Cecil Hamilton, Daughter of the Honourable and Reverend George Hamilton, Master of Arts, and Canon of Windsor, deceased, Brother of the Right Honourable James Earl of Abercorn, also deceased, shall have and enjoy the same Place, Preheminence and Precedency, in all Assemblies or Meetings whatsoever, as the Daughter of an Earl of the Kingdom of Great Britain; and His Majesty has also been pleased to order that the same be registered in the College of Arms.”

  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 Church of England. Parish Church of Taplow (Buckinghamshire). Parish registers, 1710–1897. (Salt Lake City: Filmed by the Genealogical Society of Utah, 1976)
    FHL 919250 item 1 (PR 203/1/3 Register of baptisms and burials 1759–1812), [p 6].

    Digital image in DGS 7907146, image 83 (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/3:1:3Q9M-CSHW-CV25 : accessed 18 Feb. 2018).

    Christenings, 1770: “Cecil Daughter of Geo. & Elizth. Hamilton May 3d.”

  5. ↑ Style after being raised to the precedency of an Earl's daughter in 1789.
  6. ↑ From the date of her first marriage to the Marquess of Abercorn until the date of her second marriage.
  7. ↑ From the date of her second marriage to the Baronet.
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