Frederick Hamilton (Donegal politician)

Frederick was born in the 1680s in Ireland.[lower-alpha 1] He was the eldest son of Gustavus Hamilton and his wife Elizabeth Brooke. His father was the 1st Viscount Boyne. The viscounts Boyne are a noble branch of the House of Hamilton.[1] His mother was a daughter of Sir Henry Brooke of Brookeborough in Fermanagh.[2]

On 1 September 1707, Mr Hamilton married Sophia Hamilton, daughter of James Hamilton of Tollymore, near Newcastle, County Down, and sister of James Hamilton, 1st Earl of Clanbrassil of the second creation.[7]

Frederick and Sophia had four children, two sons:

1. Gustavus (1710–1746), succeeded his grandfather as Viscount Boyne;
2. James (died 1740), lieutenant in the navy;

—and two daughters:

1. Anne (born 1712), died young; and
2. Elizabeth (born 1715), died young.

Frederick Hamilton was a Member of Parliament from 1707 to 1715 for Donegal County, the same constituency his father had represented. He entered parliament in 1707 as a replacement for Henry Conyngham (soldier),[8] who had been killed in the Battle of St Estevan of the War of the Spanish Succession.[9]

Frederick was reelected for that same seat in the Irish general elections of 1713[10] and 1715.[11] The latter parliament lasted from 12 November 1715 to 11 June 1727, but Frederick died on 10 December 1715 and was after not even a month's service replaced by his brother Gustavus.[12]

In 1710 Frederick Hamilton was appointed Vice-Admiral of Ulster, a sine cure that he held until his death.[13]

Frederick Hamilton died on 10 December 1715[14] predeceasing his father, who died in 1723,[15] and his mother, who died in 1721.[16] At the time of Frederick's death his father had just been ennobled as Baron Stackallan and was not yet Viscount Boyne. Frederick therefore died as an heir apparent without a courtesy title. His father was succeeded by Frederick's son Gustavus as the 2nd Viscount Boyne.[17]

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