Gustavus Hamilton (politician)

Gustavus Hamilton (c. 1685 – 26 February 1735),[1] styled The Honourable from 1715, was an Irish politician.

Family tree
Gustavus Hamilton with wife, parents, and other selected relatives.
Claud
1st Ld
Paisley

1546–1621
Margaret
Seton

d. 1616
James
1st Earl
Abercorn

1575–1618
Claud
of
Shawfield

d. 1614
George
of
Greenlaw
& Roscrea

d. bef. 1657
Frederick
1590–1647
Sidney
Vaughan
Christiana
b. c. 1629
Frederick
d. bef. 1646
James of
Manor-
hamilton

d. 1652
Gustavus
1st
Viscount

1642–1723
Elizabeth
Brooke

d. 1721
Frederick
c. 1663 –
1715
Sophia
Hamilton

d. 1748
Gustavus
c. 1685 –
1735
Dorothea
Bellew
Henry
c. 1692 –
1743
Gustavus
2nd
Viscount

1710–1746
Frederick
3rd
Viscount

1710–1746
Richard
4th
Viscount

1724–1789
Georgiana
Bury
Gustavus
5th
Viscount

1749–1816
Martha
Somerville
Legend
XXXGustavus
Hamilton
XXXViscounts
Boyne
XXXEarl of
Abercorn
This family tree is partly derived from the Abercorn pedigree pictured in Cokayne.[2] Also see the lists of siblings and children in the text.

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

  1. "Leigh Rayment - Irish House of Commons 1692-1800". Archived from the original on 1 June 2009. Retrieved 28 April 2009.
  2. Cokayne 1910, p. 4: "Tabular pedigree of the Earls of Abercorn"
  3. "ThePeerage - Hon. Gustavus Hamilton". Retrieved 28 April 2009.
  4. 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.
  5. Debrett, John (1824). Debrett's Baronetage of England. vol. II (5th ed.). London: G. Woodfall. p. 765.
  6. 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

Parliament of Ireland
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


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