Person:James Hamilton (188)
Rt. Hon. James Hamilton, 6th Earl of Abercorn PC
b.Abt 1661
d.28 Nov 1734
Parents and Siblings
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m. 1661
  1. Rt. Hon. James Hamilton, 6th Earl of Abercorn PCAbt 1661 - 1734
  2. Col. George Hamilton - 1692
  3. William Hamilton - 1737
Spouse and Children
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  • H.  Rt. Hon. James Hamilton, 6th Earl of Abercorn PCAbt 1661 - 1734
  • W.  Elizabeth ReadingAbt 1668 - 1754
  1. Lady Mary Hamilton
  2. Rt. Hon. James Hamilton, 7th Earl of Abercorn PC FRS1685/86 - 1743/44
  3. Robert Hamilton1687 -
  4. John HamiltonAbt 1694 - 1714
  5. George HamiltonAbt 1697 - 1775
  6. Lady Jane HamiltonBef 1704 - 1753
  7. Charles Hamilton1704 - 1786
  8. Lady Elizabeth Hamilton
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Facts and Events
Name[4][5] Rt. Hon. James Hamilton, 6th Earl of Abercorn PC
Gender Male
Birth[4] Abt 1661 (aged 73 at death)
Other[1] 6 Jun 1673 James succeeded his father, obtaining a post as Groom of the Bedchamber to Charles II.
Title (nobility)[3] 1679 James succeeded to the Baronetcy (cr. abt. 1660) on the death of his grandfather, Sir George Hamilton, but appears never to have assumed it.
Marriage License 24 Jan 1683/84 London, Englandto Elizabeth Reading
Title (nobility)[2][3] Jun 1701 James succeeded his cousin, Charles Hamilton, as Lord Hamilton, Baron of Strabane, and Earl of Abercorn.
Title (nobility)[1] 2 Sep 1701 James was created Baron Mountcastle and Viscount Strabane (co. Tyrone, Ireland).
Will[5] 5 May 1731 James Earl of Abercorn made his last will and testament in the presence of Fra. Annesley and Thomas Barsham. He made bequeaths to his four daughters Jane, Elizabeth, Mary, and Philippa, his wife the Countess of Abercorn, and other persons. His wife was appointed as sole executrix.
Death[4] 28 Nov 1734
Probate[5] 2 Dec 1734 London, EnglandThe will was proved by the oath of the Earl's wife the Rt. Hon. Elizabeth Countess Dowager of Abercorn.
Burial[4] 3 Dec 1734 Westminster Abbey, Middlesex, Englandin the Duke of Ormond's vault in Henry VII's Lady Chapel
Other[1][2] James was a member of the Privy Council of Ireland of Queen Anne, George I, and George II.
Reference Number? Q3806592?


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James Hamilton, 6th Earl of Abercorn, PC (Ire) ( – 1734) was a Scottish and Irish peer and politician. Appointed a groom of the bedchamber to Charles II after the death of his father in battle, he took the Williamite side at the Glorious Revolution and on 21 March 1689 supplied Derry with stores that enabled the town to sustain the Siege of Derry until it was relieved on 1 August. Shortly after inheriting a Scottish and Irish peerage from a second cousin, he was created a viscount in Ireland for his services to the Williamite cause.

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References
  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 ABERCORN EARLDOM VI., 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)
    1: 6.

    See transcript.

  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 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)
    1: 58-59.
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 HAMILTON (cr. prob. abt. 1660) II., in Cokayne, George Edward. Complete baronetage, 1611-1800. (Exeter [England]: W. Pollard, 1900-1906)
    3: 305.

    See transcript.

  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 Burials in Westminster Abbey, in Chester, Joseph Lemuel, ed. The Marriage, Baptismal, and Burial Registers of the Collegiate Church or Abbey of St. Peter, Westminster. (London: Harleian Society, 1876)
    p 342.

    “1734 Dec. 3 Lord James Hamilton, Earl and Baron of Abercorn, Baron Paisley, Hamilton, Mountcastle, and Kilpatrick, Scotch honours, and Viscount Struband and Baron Mountcastle of the kingdom of Ireland:5 in the Duke of Ormond's vault.”

    “5Eldest son of Colonel James Hamilton (eldest son of Sir George Hamilton, of Donalong, co. Tyrone, Baronet of Ireland, but died in his father's lifetime), by Elizabeth, eldest dau. of John, first Lord Colepeper. He succeeded in 1701 as sixth Earl of Abercorn, and to the other Scotch honours, and was created, 2 Dec. in that year, Baron Mountcastle and Viscount Strabane in the peerage of Ireland. He died, according to the Funeral Book, 28 Nov., aged seventy-three.”

  5. ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 “Will of The Right Honorable James Earl of Abercorn”, in Church of England. Province of Canterbury. Prerogative Court. Prerogative Court of Canterbury and related probate jurisdictions: Will registers. (Kew, England: The National Archives)
    PROB 11/668/220, [digital images, Ancestry.com].

    Will dated 5 May 1731. James Earl of Abercorn, desiring “that my body may be buryed in the Parish Church of the Parish where I shall happen to dye with as little pomp as decency will admit”, bequeathed to his four daughters the Lady Jane Hamilton, the Lady Elizabeth Brownlow, the Lady Mary Colley, and the Lady Philippa Pratt, his servant Charles Durham, his mother's servant Mr. George Jackson, and his wife the Countess of Abercorn. Wife made sole executrix. Wits. Fra. Annesley and Thomas Barsham.

    Probate 2 Dec. 1734. Proved by oath of the executrix (“the Right Honourable Elizabeth Countess Dowager of Abercorn the Relict of the said deceased”).

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