Born 5 Jan 1703 in England

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Died 2 Mar 1743 in Bath, Somerset, England

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Biography

James Hamilton was a member of aristocracy in the British Isles.

James Hamilton KT FRS, 5th Duke of Hamilton and 2nd Duke of Brandon, was born on 5th January 1703. He was the son of Lieutenant General James Hamilton, 4th Duke of Hamilton and his wife, Elizabeth (nee Gerard), Duchess of Hamilton.^{[citation needed]}

He succeeded his father as the 6th Duke of Hamilton on 15th November 1712, after his father lost the celebrated duel in Hyde Park, Westminster, with Charles Mohun, 4th Baron Mohun, over a disputed inheritance. Lord Hamilton attended Winchester College from 1716 to 1717. Hamilton matriculated at Christ Church, Oxford on 2nd May 1718 and was created a Doctor of Civil Law (DCL) on 6th June 1719.

At the foundation of the noted charity, the Foundling Hospital in London, Hamilton was one of the charity's first governors and his name is listed on the organisation's royal charter, granted in October 1739.

He married Lady Anne Cochrane, a daughter of the 4th Earl of Dundonald, on 14th February 1723 and they had one child:

• James, 5th Duke of Hamilton (1724–58).

Anne died from the effects of her first and only childbirth a month later. Hamilton married, secondly, Elizabeth Strangways, but she died childless on 3rd November 1729.

Still yearning company and intimacy, he then married Anne Spencer on 21st August 1737 and they had three children:

• Lady Anne Hamilton, later Anne Chichester, Marchioness of Donegall (1738–80)
• Archibald Hamilton, 9th Duke of Hamilton (1740–1819)
• Lord Spencer Hamilton (1742–91)

Death

This appears to be the same Sir James Hamilton that is Inscripted on the Monument...

Burial: Hamilton Old Parish Churchyard, Hamilton, South Lanarkshire, Scotland

This may be a Cenotaph for one or all.

Inscription:

"MEMORIAM

Sir James Hamilton A_TER_ARMS James Lord Hamilton BORN ____

DIED: 12th NOV_ 1479

THE MOST HIGH AND PUISSANT PRINCE John Hamilton ST MARQUIS OF HAMILTON

3RD DUKE OF CHATELHERAULT BORN 1532 DIED AT HAMILTON 12TH APRIL 1607 (7?)

AGED 72 YEARS

THE MOST HIGH AND PUISSANT PRINCE JAMES 1ST DUKE OF HAMILTON, 6TH DUKE (?)

OF CHATELHERAULT . 2ND EARL OF CAMBRIDGE BORN AT HAMILTON 19TH JUNE 1608

BEHEADED IN PALAZE YARD 9TH MARCH 1649 AGED 43 YEARS

James Hamilton DUKE OF HAMILTON, BRANDON, CHATELHERAULT IN THE KINGDOM OF

FRANCE, WAS KILLED IN A DUEL IN HYDE PARK 15TH NOVEMBER 1712, IN THE 55TH

YEAR OF HIS AGE.

THE RIGHT HONOURABLE WILLIAM Hamilton LORD HAMILTON, SECOND SON OF THE MOST

HIGH AND PUISSANT PRINCE James Hamilton DUKE OF HAMILTON, BRANDON AND

CHATELHERAULT DIED 11TH JULY 1734 IN THE 28TH YEAR OF HIS AGE

THE MOST HIGH AND PUISSANT PRINCE Sir James Hamilton JAMES, 5TH DUKE OF HAMILTON AND 9TH DUKE

CHATELHERAULT, 2ND DUKE OF BRANDON BORN 1702 DIED 1ST MARCH 1743

AGED 41 YEARS

THE MOST HIGH AND PUISSANT PRINCE James Hamilton, DUKE OF HAMILTON AND BRANDON  :AND CHATELHERAULT DIED AT _REAT REW AT OXFORDSHIRE 18TH JANUARY 1757

AGED 34 YEARS

THE MOST HIGH AND PUISSANT PRINCE Sir James George Hamilton HAMILTON DUKE OF

HAMILTON, BRANDON AND CHATELHERAULT BORN AT HOLYBOND HOUSE 10TH FEBY

1755 DIED AT HAMILTON, 7TH JULY 1763

SOURCE: Monument [1]

Sources

• 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, 1907.47. Print.

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Hamilton,_5th_Duke_of_Hamilton

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