Personal data John James Hamilton 

• He was born July 1756.
• Title: 1st Marquess of Abercorn
• Profession: 1st Marquess of Abercorn.
• He died on January 27, 1818, he was 61 years old.
• A child of John Hamilton and Harriet Eliot

Household of John James Hamilton

He is married to Catherine Copley.

They got married

Child(ren):

1. Harriet Margaret Hamilton  1780-1803
2. Maria Hamilton  1782-1814
3. Catherine Elizabeth Hamilton  1784-1812 
4. James Hamilton  1786-1814 

Notes about John James Hamilton

John Hamilton, 1st Marquess of Abercorn

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John Hamilton
Portrait by Sir Thomas Lawrence
Born	July 1756
Title	1st Marquess of Abercorn
Other titles	9th Earl of Abercorn
Nationality	Irish
Predecessor	James Hamilton, 8th Earl of Abercorn
Successor	James Hamilton, 2nd Marquess of Abercorn
Spouse(s)	Catherine Copley Lady Cecil Hamilton Lady Anne Jane Gore
Parents	John Hamilton Harriet Eliot

John James Hamilton, 1st Marquess of Abercorn KG, PC (Ire) (July 1756 – 27 January 1818) was an Irish peer and politician.

 

Contents

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• 1Background
• 2Career
• 3Family
• 4References
• 5External links

 

Background[edit]

He was the son of Captain Hon. John Hamilton and grandson of James Hamilton, 7th Earl of Abercorn. He was educated at Harrow and Pembroke College, Cambridge.^[1]There he became the friend of William Pitt the Younger, a connection that would serve him well in later years.

Career[edit]

He was a Tory Member of Parliament for two boroughs in Cornwall from 1783 to 1789, when he succeeded to the Earldom. He was a supporter of his friend Pitt's first ministry, and a friend of William Pitt the Younger. He was created 1st Marquess of Abercorn on 15 October 1790, doubtless due to his political connections.

He was sworn of the Privy Council of Ireland on 7 February 1794. Most of the Abercorn lands were in Ireland, and the Marquess made great efforts to build a voting bloc in the Irish Parliament from County Donegal and County Tyrone, although with relatively little success. He was invested as a Knight of the Garter on 17 January 1805.

George W. E. Russell provided the following sketch of his aristocratic character:

This admirable nobleman always went out shooting in his Blue Ribbon, and required his housemaids to wear white kid gloves when they made his bed. Before he married his first cousin, Miss Cecil Hamilton, he induced the Crown to confer on her the titular rank of an Earl's daughter, that he might not marry beneath his position; and, when he discovered that she contemplated eloping, he sent a message begging her to take the family coach, as it ought never to be said that Lady Abercorn left her husband's roof in a hack chaise.^[2]

Family[edit]

He married, firstly, Catherine Copley, daughter of Sir Joseph Copley, 1st Baronet, on 20 June 1779. They had five children:

• Lady Harriet Margaret Hamilton (1780–1803), died unmarried.
• Lady Maria Hamilton (1782–1814), died unmarried.
• Lady Catherine Elizabeth Hamilton (1784–1812), married George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen and had issue.
• James Hamilton, Viscount Hamilton (1786–1814), married Harriet Douglas, granddaughter of James Douglas, 14th Earl of Morton and had issue.
• Lord Claud Hamilton (1787–1808), died unmarried.

He married, secondly, his first cousin, Cecil Hamilton, daughter of Reverend The Hon. George Hamilton, on 4 March 1792, but they were divorced in 1799 by an Act of Parliament. They had one child:

• The Lady Cecil Frances Hamilton (19 July 1795 – 7 July 1860), married William Howard, 4th Earl of Wicklow and had issue.

He married, thirdly, Lady Anne Jane Gore, daughter of Arthur Gore, 2nd Earl of Arran, on 3 April 1800.

Lord Abercorn died in 1818, aged 61 at Bentley Priory, Stanmore and his titles passed to his grandson, James Hamilton.

References[edit]

1. Jump up^ "Hamilton, John James (HMLN773JJ)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
2. Jump up^ George W. E. Russell, Collections & Recollections (Revised edition, Smith Elder & Co, London, 1899), at page 77.

External links[edit]

• Hansard 1803–2005: contributions in Parliament by the Marquess of Abercorn
• Abercorn papers

Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by John Buller William Graves	Member of Parliament for East Looe 1783–1784 With: ;John Buller	Succeeded by John Buller William Graves
Preceded by Edward James Eliot Dudley Long	Member of Parliament for St Germans 1784–1789 With: Abel Smith 1784–1788 Samuel Smith 1788–1790	Succeeded by Samuel Smith Sir Charles Hamilton
Peerage of Scotland
Preceded by James Hamilton	Earl of Abercorn 1789–1818	Succeeded by James Hamilton
Peerage of Great Britain
New creation	Marquess of Abercorn 1790–1818	Succeeded by James Hamilton

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• 1818 deaths
• Alumni of Pembroke College, Cambridge
• Knights of the Garter
• Members of the Parliament of Great Britain for constituencies in Cornwall
• Members of the Privy Council of Ireland
• People educated at Harrow School
• British MPs 1780–84
• British MPs 1784–90
• Tory MPs (pre-1834)
• Marquesses of Abercorn

 

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