Person:Ernest Hamilton (5)

Personal History

Ernest William Hamilton^[2] was born 5 September 1858^[1] (registered in the district of Tunbridge, co. Kent).^[2]

Ernest entered Harrow School in 1872 and left in 1877.^[5]

Marriage and Family

(see the Family page for references)

Ernest William Hamilton and Pamela Ambrose A. L. Campbell were married 2 June 1891 (registered in the district of St George Hanover Square, co. London).

Death and Probate

Ernest, then of 11-12 Chesham Place, died 14 December 1939 at home in Belgravia, co. London^[4] (registered in the district of City of Westminster).^[3]

On 27 March 1940,^[4] in London, administration was granted to his daughter Mary Brenda, Princess de Chimay. Effects were in the amount of £7043 18s 3d.

From Wikipedia

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Lord Ernest William Hamilton (5 September 1858 – 14 December 1939) was a United Kingdom soldier and Conservative politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1885 to 1892.

Hamilton was the seventh son of James Hamilton, 1st Duke of Abercorn and his wife Lady Louisa Jane Russell. He was educated at Harrow School and Royal Military College, Sandhurst. He became a captain in the 11th Hussars.

His elder brothers Lord George Hamilton, Lord James Hamilton, and Lord Frederick Hamilton were also Conservative MPs. In the 1885 general election Hamilton was elected Member of Parliament for Tyrone North. He held the seat until 1892.

Hamilton was the author of several novels, two of which – The Outlaws of the Marches and The Mawkin of the Flow – are set on the Scottish Borders in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. Another novel, Mary Hamilton, is based on the ballad of the same name.

In the period after the First World War Hamilton published several historical works, notably The Soul of Ulster, arguing that Ulster Protestants are descended from Scottish Border Reivers transplanted to Ulster by James I and VI, and equating the 1641 massacre of planters by Irish Catholic rebels with later Irish nationalist movements.

In the 1920s Hamilton supported the British Fascists led by Rotha Lintorn-Orman, but he resigned from the movement when Lintorn-Orman refused to co-operate with the Conservative government in resisting the 1926 general strike.

Hamilton was brought up as an Evangelical Anglican. His religious views are expressed in Involution, a book which denounces the theological concept of sacrificial atonement and argues that Jesus was a purely ethical teacher. Hamilton argues that Marcionism was the correct interpretation of Jesus' message and that the God of the Old Testament is a personification of the Jewish national character, which he describes in highly anti-semitic terms.

Hamilton married Pamela Campbell (d. 1931) in 1891. She was a granddaughter of Sir Guy Campbell, 1st Baronet by his son Capt. Frederick Augustus Campbell (1839–1916). They had two sons and two daughters:

• Guy Ernest Frederick Hamilton (1894–1914), who died unmarried.
• Mary Brenda Hamilton (1897–1985), who in 1922 married the Lt.-Col. of the Scots Guards, Alphonse de Chimay, Prince de Chimay, Comte de Caraman (d. 1973). Their only child and daughter was the widow of Hugh Seymour, 8th Marquess of Hertford.
• Jean Barbara Hamilton (b. 1898), who in 1921 became the first wife of Sir John Buchanan-Jardine, 3rd Baronet (1900–1969). They were divorced in 1944 and had one son.
• John George Peter Hamilton (1900–1967), who in 1932 married Alexandra Christine Egerton (d. 1963), daughter of William Egerton from Kimberley, South Africa. They had no issue.

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. 71.

   See transcript, issue #7 under James, tenth Earl and second Marquess of Abercorn ….

2. ↑ ^{2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3} Registered during Q3, 1858, in General Register Office. England and Wales Civil Registration Birth Index. (London, United Kingdom: General Register Office, 1837-Present)
   [digital image, Ancestry.com].

   “Hamilton, Ernest William”, Tunbridge dist., vol. 2a, p. 360.

3. ↑ ^3.0 3.1 Registered during Q4, 1939, in General Register Office. England and Wales Civil Registration Death Index. (London, United Kingdom: General Register Office, 1837-Present)
   [digital image, Ancestry.com].

   “Hamilton, Ernest W.”, age 81, Westminster dist., vol. 1a, p. 629.

4. ↑ ^{4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3} “Wills and Administrations, 1940”, 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–J, p. 46.

   Digital image in England & Wales, National Probate Calendar (Index of Wills and Administrations), 1858–1966, 1973–1995 (https://www.ancestry.com/interactive/1904/31874_222708-00055/2882423 : accessed 15 Nov. 2017).
   
   “HAMILTON, Ernest William” of 11-12 Chesham-place, co. London S.W.1, d. 14 Dec. 1939 at 11 Chesham-place; probate in London, 27 March, to Mary Brenda Princess de Chimay (wife of Prince Alphonse de Chimay), effects £7043 18s 3d.

5. ↑ 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. 471.

   (https://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015039798247?urlappend=%3Bseq=491 : accessed 18 Oct. 2017)
   
   Under “ENTRANCES, JANUARY–EASTER 1872”:
   “Hamilton, Lord Ernest William (Mr. Rendall's), son of James, 1st Duke of Abercorn (O.H.). Cricket XI. 1877 ; left 1877². Joined 11th Hussars, 1878 ; retired as Capt. 1885 ; M.P. N. Tyrone, 1885–92 ; author of ‘ The Outlaws of the Marshes,’ and other novels.—Lord Ernest Hamilton, Shantock Hall, Bovingdon, Herts.”