Person:Claud Hamilton (18)
Rt. Hon. Lord Claud John Hamilton, KStJ PC
b.20 Feb 1843 Hendon Registration District, Middlesex, England
d.26 Jan 1925 Paddington, London, England
Parents and Siblings
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m. 25 Oct 1832
  1. Lady Harriet Georgina Louisa Hamilton1834 - 1913
  2. Lady Beatrix Frances Hamilton1835 - 1871
  3. Lady Louisa Jane Hamilton1836 - 1912
  4. Most Noble James Hamilton, 2nd Duke of Abercorn KG CB PC1838 - 1913
  5. Lady Katherine Elizabeth Hamilton1840 - 1874
  6. Lady Georgiana Susan Hamilton1841 - 1913
  7. Rt. Hon. Lord Claud John Hamilton, KStJ PC1843 - 1925
  8. Rt. Hon. Lord George Francis Hamilton, GCSI PC1845 - 1927
  9. Lady Albertha Frances Anne Hamilton1847 - 1932
  10. Lord Ronald Douglas Hamilton1849 - 1867
  11. Lady Maud Evelyn Hamilton1850 - 1932
  12. Lord Cosmo Hamilton1853 - 1853
  13. Lord Frederick Spencer Hamilton1856 - 1928
  14. Lord Ernest William Hamilton1858 - 1939
Spouse and Children
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  • H.  Rt. Hon. Lord Claud John Hamilton, KStJ PC1843 - 1925
  • W.  Carolina Pole (add)
m. 20 Jul 1878
  1. Col. Gilbert Claud Hamilton, CMG DSO1879 - 1943
  2. Ida Hamilton1883 -
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Facts and Events
Name[2][3][5] Rt. Hon. Lord Claud John Hamilton, KStJ PC
Gender Male
Birth[1][2] 20 Feb 1843 Hendon Registration District, Middlesex, England
Christening[3][16] 20 Apr 1843 Stanmore, Middlesex, England
Marriage 20 Jul 1878 Kensington Registration District, London, Englandto Carolina Pole (add)
Death[4][5][6] 26 Jan 1925 Paddington, London, England
Probate[5][6] 11 May 1925 London, England
Reference Number Q2679435 (Wikidata)

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Personal History

Claud John Hamilton,[2][3] son of James Hamilton and Louisa Jane[3] (then Marquess and Marchioness of Abercorn, later the Duke and Duchess of Abercorn), was born 20 February 1843[1] (registered in the district of Hendon, co. Middlesex)[2] and was baptized 20 April 1843 in the parish of Great Stanmore, co. Middlesex, England.[3]

Claud entered Harrow School in 1856 and left in 1860.[7]

On 27 May 1862,[8] Claud joined the Grenadier Guards as ensign and lieutenant, by purchase. He was promoted to be lieutenant and captain, by purchase, in 1865,[9] until he retired on 8 June 1867.[10] In August following, he (as lieutenant-colonel) was appointed to be Aide-de-Camp to the Lord Lieutenant.[11]

On 2 November 1868,[12] Claud was appointed by Queen Victoria to be one of the commissioners for executing the offices of Treasurer of the Exchequer of Great Britain, and Lord High Treasurer of Ireland.

On 18 June 1887,[13] Claud, then a lieutenant-colonel commandant and honorary colonel of the 5th Battalion, the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers, was appointed to be Aide-de-Camp to Queen Victoria for the service of Her Militia Force in Ireland, with the rank of Colonel.

On 9 May 1900,[14] Claud was appointed by Queen Victoria to be a Knight of Grace in the Order of the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem (KStJ).

Claud was one of the executors of his mother's will in 1905.

On 13 June 1917,[15] Claud was sworn of King George V's Most Honourable Privy Council (PC).

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Marriage and Family

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Claud John Hamilton and Carolina Chandos Pole were married 20 July 1878 (registered in the district of Kensington, co. London).

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Death and Probate

Claud, then of Cambridge Square in Paddington, co. London, died 26 January 1925[5][6] (registered in the district of Paddington).[4]

On 11 May 1925,[5][6] in London, a will with two codicils was proved by the executors: his son Gilbert Claud Hamilton CMG DSO, a retired army lt.-col.; his daughter Mrs. Ida Flower, the wife of Hugh Duncombe Flower; and George Levinge Whately, solicitor. Effects were in the amount of £110,613 5s 9d.

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From Wikipedia

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Rt. Hon. Lord Claud John Hamilton (20 February 1843 – 26 January 1925) was a British Member of Parliament (MP) during the Victorian era, and a noted railway director.

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References
  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 “Hamilton, Earl of Abercorn”, in Paul, James Balfour. The Scots peerage: founded on Wood's edition of Sir Robert Douglas's ‘Peerage of Scotland’ containing an historical and genealogical account of the nobility of that kingdom, with armorial illustrations. (Edinburgh: D. Douglas, 1904-1914)
    vol. 1, p. 70.

    See transcript, issue #2 under James, tenth Earl and second Marquess of Abercorn ….

  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Registered during Q1, 1843, in General Register Office. England and Wales Civil Registration Birth Index. (London, United Kingdom: General Register Office, 1837-Present)
    [digital image, Ancestry.com].

    “Hamilton, Claud John”, Hendon dist., vol. 3, p. 197.

  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 Church of England. Parish of St John the Evangelist, Stanmore (Middlesex). Parish Registers, 1599–1989. (Salt Lake City: Filmed by the Genealogical Society of Utah, 1969)
    London Metropolitan Archives, City of London DRO/014/A/01/011. Register of baptisms, 1831–1849, p. 75, no. 598.

    Digital image in London, England, Church of England Births and Baptisms, 1813–1916 (https://www.ancestry.com/interactive/1558/31280_194441-00048 : accessed 3 Oct. 2017).

    “Claud John Son of James & Louisa Jane Hamilton, [abode] Priory Harrow, [occ.] Marquis of Abercorn, [by] A. R. Chauvel”, bap. 20 April 1843

  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 Registered during Q1, 1925, in General Register Office. England and Wales Civil Registration Death Index. (London, United Kingdom: General Register Office, 1837-Present)
    [digital image, Ancestry.com].

    “Hamilton, Claud J.”, age 81, Paddington dist., vol. 1a, p. 107.

  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 “Wills and Administrations, 1925”, in Principal Probate Registry (London). Calendar of the Grants of Probate and Letters of Administration: Made in the Principal Registry and in the Several District Registries of Her Majesty's Court of Probate. (London, United Kingdom: HM Stationery Office, [1859?]–present)
    vol. surnames H–K, p. 34.

    Digital image in England & Wales, National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations), 1858–1966, 1973–1995 (https://www.ancestry.com/interactive/1904/31874_221767-00041/2082367 : accessed 14 Nov. 2017).

    “HAMILTON, the right honourable Claud John” of 28 Cambridge-square, co. Middlesex, d. 26 Jan. 1925; probate in London, 11 May, to Gilbert Claud Hamilton CMG DSO, retired lt.-col. H.M. Army, Ida Flower (wife of Hugh Duncombe Flower), George Levinge Whately, solicitor, effects £109,322 13s 4d, resworn £110,613 5s 9d.

  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 England. The London gazette. (London, England)
    no. 33050, p. 3587, 26 May 1925.

    (https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/33050/page/3587 : accessed 4 Oct. 2017)

    “Re Lord CLAUD JOHN HAMILTON, P.C., Deceased. …
    “NOTICE is hereby given, that all creditors and other persons having any claims or demands upon or against the estate of The Right Honourable Claud John Hamilton, commonly called Lord Claud Hamilton, late of 28, Cambridge-square, in the county of London, Privy Councillor (who died on the 26th day of January, 1925, and whose will (with two codicils thereto) was proved in the Principal Probate Registry of His Majesty's High Court of Justice on the 11th day of May, 1925, by Lieutenant Colonel Gilbert Claud Hamilton, C.M.G., D.S.O., Son of the deceased, Mrs. Ida Flower, daughter of the deceased, and George Levinge Whately, the executors and executrix therein named), are hereby required to send particulars, in writing, of their claims or demands to us, the undersigned, the Solicitors for the said executors and executrix, on or before the 30th day of June, 1925, ….—Dated this 20th day of May, 1925.
    “ROOPER and WHATELY, 17, Lincoln's Innfields, London, W.C., Solicitors for the said Executors and Executrix.”

  7. ↑ Harrow School; Milverton Godfrey Dauglish (ed.); and Pleydell Keppel Stephenson (ed.). The Harrow School Register, 1800-1911 (3rd ed.). (London [England], New York [New York] and Bombay [India]: Longmans, Green, 1911)
    p. 288.

    (https://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015039798247?urlappend=%3Bseq=308 : accessed 18 Oct. 2017)

    Under “ENTRANCES, EASTER–MIDSUMMER 1856”:
    “Hamilton, Lord Claud John (Small Houses and Mr. E. H. Vaughan's), son of James, 1st Duke of Abercorn (O.H.). Left 18601. Joined Grenadier Guards, 1862 ; retired 1867 ; M.P. Londonderry City, 1865–8 ; King's Lynn, 1869–80 ; Liverpool, 1880–5 ; Liverpool (W. Derby), 1885–8 ; S. Kensington, since 1910 ; Lord of the Treasury in 1868 ; Chairman G.E.R. and other companies ; Knight of Grace of St. John of Jerusalem ; late Col. 5th (Militia) Batt. Inniskilling Fusiliers ; High Steward of Great Yarmouth.—Lord Claud Hamilton, M.P., 4, Hans Mansions, S.W.”

  8. ↑ England. The London gazette. (London, England)
    no. 22629, p. 2732, 27 May 1862.

    (https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/22629/page/2732 : accessed 18 Oct. 2017)

    “War-Office, Pall-Mall, 27th May, 1862.
    …
    “Grenadier Guards, Lord Claud John Hamilton to be Ensign and Lieutenant, by purchase, vice Viscount Hinchingbrook, promoted. Dated 27th May, 1862.”

  9. ↑ England. The London gazette. (London, England)
    no. 22998, p. 3893, 8 Aug. 1865.

    (https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/22998/page/3893 : accessed 18 Oct. 2017)

    “War Office, Pall Mall, 8th August, 1865.
    …
    “Grenadier Guards, …
    “Ensign and Lieutenant Lord Claud John Hamilton to be Lieutenant and Captain, by purchase, vice the Honourable Frederick Arthur Stanley, who retires. Dated 8th August, 1865.”

  10. ↑ England. The London gazette. (London, England)
    no. 23260, p. 3228, 7 June 1867.

    (https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/23260/page/3228 : accessed 18 Oct. 2017)

    “War Office, Pall Mall, 7th June, 1867.
    …
    “Grenadier Guards, Ensign and Lieutenant the Honourable Norman de L'Aigle Grosvenor to be Lieutenant and Captain, by purchase, vice Lord Claud John Hamilton, who retires. Dated 8th June, 1867.”

  11. ↑ The Edinburgh gazette. (Edinburgh, Scotland)
    no. 7770, p. 916, 9 Aug. 1867.

    (https://www.thegazette.co.uk/Edinburgh/issue/7770/page/916 : accessed 18 Oct. 2017)

    “The Lord Lieutenant has been pleased to appoint Lieutenant-Colonel Lord Claud John Hamilton, Prince of Wales' Own Donegal Militia, to be Aide-de-Camp to His Excellency.”

  12. ↑ England. The London gazette. (London, England)
    no. 23437, p. 5705, 3 Nov. 1868.

    (https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/23437/page/5705 : accessed 18 Oct. 2017)

    “Whitehall, November 2, 1868.
    “The Queen has been pleased to direct letters patent to be passed under the Great Seal, constituting and appointing the Right Honourable Benjamin Disraeli ; the Right Honourable George Ward Hunt ; Claud John Hamilton, Esq. (commonly called Lord Claud John Hamilton) ; Sir Graham Graham Montgomery, Bart. ; and Henry Whitmore, Esq. ; to be Commissioners for executing the offices of Treasurer of the Exchequer of Great Britain, and Lord High Treasurer of Ireland.”

  13. ↑ England. The London gazette. (London, England)
    no. 25710, p. 3287, 17 June 1887.

    (https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/25710/page/3287 : accessed 18 Oct. 2017)

    “War Office, 17th June, 1887.
    “MILITIA.
    “Memorandum.
    “THE Queen has been graciously pleased to approve of the following Officer being appointed Aide-de-Camp to Her Majesty for the service of Her Militia Force in Ireland, with the rank of Colonel in the Militia Force (vice the Earl of Meath, deceased), viz. :—
    “Lieutenant-Colonel Commandant and Honorary Colonel Lord Claud John Hamilton, 5th Battalion, the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers. Dated 18th June, 1887.”

  14. ↑ England. The London gazette. (London, England)
    no. 27191, p. 2997, 11 May 1900.

    (https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/27191/page/2997 : accessed 18 Oct. 2017)

    “THE GRAND PRIORY OF THE ORDER OF THE HOSPITAL OF ST. JOHN OF JERUSALEM IN ENGLAND.
    “Chancery of the Order, St. John's Gate, Clerkenwell, London, May 9, 1900.
    “THE Queen has been graciously pleased to sanction the following appointments to the Order of the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem in England :— …
    “Knights of Grace. …
    “The Right Honourable Lord Claud John Hamilton.”

  15. ↑ England. The London gazette. (London, England)
    no. 30131, p. 5867, 15 June 1917.

    (https://www.thegazette.co.uk/London/issue/30131/page/5867 : accessed 18 Oct. 2017)

    “At the Court at Buckingham Palace, the 13th day of June, 1917.
    “PRESENT, The KING's Most Excellent Majesty in Council.
    “THIS day Claud John Hamilton, Esquire, M.P., commonly called Lord Claud Hamilton ; …, were, by His Majesty's command, sworn of His Majesty's Most Honourable Privy Council, and took their places at the Board accordingly. Almeric FitzRoy.”

  16. ↑ Lord Claud John Hamilton Baptism
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