Gustavus Hamilton (politician)
Gustavus Hamilton (c. 1685 – 26 February 1735),[1] styled The Honourable from 1715, was an Irish politician.
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Gustavus was born about 1685 in Ireland. He was the second son of Gustavus Hamilton, 1st Viscount Boyne and his wife Elizabeth Brooke, daughter of Sir Henry Brooke.[3] His younger brother was Henry Hamilton.[4] In 1716, he entered the Irish House of Commons for Donegal County, the same constituency his father and his older brother Frederick had represented before.[1] Hamilton sat as Member of Parliament until his death in 1735.[1]
Marriage
In January 1717, he married Dorothea Bellew, only daughter of Richard Bellew, 3rd Baron Bellew of Duleek.[5] They had five daughters and two sons.[6] Both sons Frederick and Richard succeeded successively as Viscount Boyne.[5]
See also
Notes
- "Leigh Rayment - Irish House of Commons 1692-1800". Archived from the original on 1 June 2009. Retrieved 28 April 2009.
- Cokayne 1910, p. 4: "Tabular pedigree of the Earls of Abercorn"
- "ThePeerage - Hon. Gustavus Hamilton". Retrieved 28 April 2009.
- Burke, John (1832). A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Peerage and Baronetage of the British Empire. vol. I (4th ed.). London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley. p. 136.
- Debrett, John (1824). Debrett's Baronetage of England. vol. II (5th ed.). London: G. Woodfall. p. 765.
- Lodge, John (1789). Mervyn Archdall (ed.). The Peerage of Ireland or A Genealogical History of the Present Nobility of that Kingdom. vol. V. Dublin: James Moore. pp. 179–180.
References
- Cokayne, George Edward (1910), Gibbs, Vicary (ed.), The complete peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, extant, extinct, or dormant, 1 (2nd ed.), London: St Catherine Press – Ab-Adam to Basing
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| Preceded by Hon. Frederick Hamilton Sir Ralph Gore, 4th Bt |
Member of Parliament for Donegal County 1716–1735 With: Sir Ralph Gore, 4th Bt 1716–1727 Alexander Montgomery 1727–1730 Hon. Henry Hamilton 1730–1735 |
Succeeded by George Knox Hon. Henry Hamilton |