Augustus Barrington Price (Hamilton) Douglas-Hamilton RN (1781 - 1849)

Born 22 May 1781 in Middlesex, England

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Died 27 Aug 1849 at age 68 in Sussex, England, United Kingdom

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Augustus (Hamilton) Douglas-Hamilton RN is a member of Clan Hamilton.

Augustus Barrington Price Hamilton was born on 21 May 1781 and was baptised on 13 June 1781 at St. Marylebone, Middlesex^[1]. He was the son of Captain Charles Powell Hamilton and Lucretia Prosser. (He was also known as Augustus Barrington Price Anne Powell Douglas-Hamilton.)

He was educated at St. John's College, Cambridge University, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England.

He entered the Royal Navy in 1796, gaining the rank of Lieutenant in 1802. In 1800 he was in the frigate Phaeton which escorted the Earl of Elgin as Ambassador to Constantinople: ‘Mr Hamilton … assisted in cutting-out the Spanish ship “San Josef” near Malaga. Though shot through the thigh, he gallantly boarded with the rest, and was highly spoken of for his conduct’.

Augustus married Maria Catherine Hyde (the daughter of John Hyde and Mary Seymour) on 2 April 1805 at St George's, Hanover Square, London, by Licence^[2]. The witnesses were John Payne and W. Plowden.

Lancaster Gazette 06 April 1805, page 3:

MARRIED.

On Tuesday, at St. George's, Hanover-square, London, Augustus Hamilton, Esq. son of Vice-Admiral Hamilton, and great grandson of James, fourth Duke of Hamilton, to Miss Hyde, daughter of the late Judge Hyde, and great grand-daughter of Edward, eighth Duke of Somerset.^[3]

They went on to have at least 10 children; 8 sons and 2 daughters.

He lived at Fir Hill, Droxford, Hampshire, England.

He died on 27 August 1849^[4].

His Will was proved on 26 November 1849.

Sources

1. ↑ "England, Middlesex Parish Registers, 1539-1988", database, FamilySearch (https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:6ZC8-8L44 : 11 July 2022), Augustus Barrington Price Powell Hamilton, 1781.
2. ↑ London Metropolitan Archives; London, England; London Church of England Parish Registers; Reference Number: DL/T/089/002. Ancestry.com. London, England, Church of England Marriages and Banns, 1754-1938 [database on-line]. Lehi, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2010.
3. ↑ Lancaster Gazette 06 April 1805, page 3, https://search.findmypast.co.uk/ (requires subscription).
4. ↑ "England and Wales Death Registration Index 1837-2007," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:2J9L-JY2 : 31 December 2014), Augustus Barrington Price Powell Hamilton, 1849; from "England & Wales Deaths, 1837-2006," database, findmypast (http://www.findmypast.com : 2012); citing Death, Worthing, Sussex, England, General Register Office, Southport, England.

• Johnston, George Harvey. "The Douglases of Angus." The Heraldry of the Douglases: With Notes on All the Males of the Family, Descriptions of the Arms, Plates and Pedigrees. Edinburgh: W. & A.K. Johnston, Limited, 1907.48. Print.

• The Peerage:- Augustus Barrington Price Hamilton