James Hamilton, 1st Duke of Abercorn
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Prime Minister | Benjamin Disraeli |
Preceded by | The Earl Spencer |
Succeeded by | The Duke of Marlborough |
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Born | Mayfair, Westminster, Middlesex, England | 21 January 1811
Died | 31 October 1885 Baronscourt, Tyrone, United Kingdom | (aged 74)
Political party | Conservative |
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Alma mater | Christ Church, Oxford |
James Hamilton, 1st Duke of Abercorn,
Background and education
Born into an Ulster-Scots aristocratic family at Seymour Place, Mayfair, on 21 January 1811, Abercorn was the son of James, Viscount Hamilton, himself the eldest son of The 1st Marquess of Abercorn. His mother, Harriet, was the second daughter of The Hon. John Douglas, himself the son of The 14th Earl of Morton. His father died when Abercorn was only three. In 1818, aged seven, he succeeded his grandfather in his titles and estates.[1] He was educated at Harrow School and Christ Church, Oxford,[2] where he matriculated on 2 July 1829.[3]
Political career
Lord Abercorn was first appointed a
Abercorn was appointed
On 6 July 1866, he was appointed
After the formation of the
Abercorn was Envoy-Extraordinary for the investiture of King
Family and children
Abercorn married Lady Louisa, second daughter of John Russell, 6th Duke of Bedford, in 1832.[1] They had fourteen children, thirteen of whom survived infancy, among them seven daughters, all of whom were ordered to marry into the peerage and no one beneath the rank of an earl:[9]
- Lady Harriet Georgiana Louisa Hamilton (1834–1913), married in 1855 to Thomas George Anson, 2nd Earl of Lichfield. They had eight sons and five daughters.
- Lady Beatrix Frances Hamilton (1835–1871), married in 1854 to George Frederick D'Arcy Lambton, 2nd Earl of Durham
- Lady Louisa Jane Hamilton (1836–1912), married in 1859 to William Montagu Douglas Scott, 6th Duke of Buccleuch
- James Hamilton, 2nd Duke of Abercorn (1838–1913)
- Lady Katherine Elizabeth Hamilton (1840–1874), married in 1858 to William Henry Edgcumbe, 4th Earl of Mount Edgcumbe
- Lady Georgiana Susan Hamilton (1841–1913), married in 1882 to Edward Turnour, 5th Earl Winterton
- Lord Claud Hamilton (1843–1925)
- Lord George Hamilton (1845–1927)
- George Charles Spencer-Churchill, 8th Duke of Marlborough. The marriage was annulled in 1883.
- Lord Ronald Douglas Hamilton (1849–1867)
- Lady Maud Evelyn Hamilton (1850–1932), married in 1869 to Henry Petty-Fitzmaurice, 5th Marquess of Lansdowne
- Lord Cosmo Hamilton (1853–1853, on the same day)
- Lord Frederick Spencer Hamilton (1856–1928)
- Lord Ernest Hamilton (1858–1939)
Abercorn died in October 1885, aged 74, and was succeeded by his eldest son, James. The Duchess of Abercorn died in March 1905, aged 92.
Ancestry
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Notes
- ^ a b Dod, Robert P. (1860). The Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage of Great Britain and Ireland. London: Whitaker and Co. p. 80.
- ^ a b Cokayne 1910, p. 8.
- ^ Alumni Oxonienses: the Members of the University of Oxford, 1715–1886. Oxford: Parker and Co – via Wikisource.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k Doyle 1886, p. 2.
- ^ a b c d e Cokayne 1910, p. 9.
- ^ "Hamilton, James, Marquess of Abercorn (HMLN847J)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
- ISBN 978-1-60206-641-0.
- ^ Baronscourt Parish Church
- ISBN 978-1444730982.
References
- Cokayne, George E. (1910). Gibbs, Vicary (ed.). The complete peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, extant, extinct, or dormant. Vol. I, Ab-Adam to Basing. London: St. Catherine Press.
- Doyle, James William Edmund (1886). The Official Baronage of England, v. 1. London: Longmans, Green.
- Dictionary of National Biography
- Cooper, Thompson (1884). . (eleventh ed.). London: George Routledge & Sons. p. 4.