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uncle, the Hon. and Rev. George Hamilton, Canon of Windsor, by Elizabeth, da. of Lieut. Gen. Richard Onslow. She was b. 15 Mar. 1770, was separated from her husband 1798, and divorced by Act. of Parl., Apr. 1799.[1] He m., 3rdly, 3 Apr. 1800, in Dover Str., St. Geo., Han. Sq., Lady Anne Jane Hatton, (widow of Henry Hatton, of Great Clonard, co. Wexford), da. of Arthur Saunders (Gore), 2nd Earl of Arran [L], by his 1st wife, Catharine, da. of William (Annesley), 1st Viscount Glerawley [I,]. He d. at Bentley Priory, Stanmore,[2] 27 Jan., and was bur. 5 Feb. 1818, at Stanmore. Will dat. 18 Mar. 1809, pr. 9 May 1818. His widow, who was b. Apr. 1763, d. 8 May 1827, at Naples. Will pr. June 1827.
[James Hamilton, styled Viscount Hamilton, s. and h. ap. by 1st wife, b. at Petersham Lodge, Surrey, 7 Oct., and bap. 4 Nov. 1786, at Petersham. Matric. Oxford (Ch. Ch.), 24 Oct. 1805. M.P. for Dungannon 1805–7, and for Liskeard 1807–12. He m., 25 Nov. 1809, in London, Harriet, da. of the Hon. John Douglas (2nd s. of James, xv (14th) Earl of Morton [S.]), by Frances, 1st da. of Edward (Lascelles), 1st Earl of Harewood. He d., v.p., 27 May 1814, in Upper Brook Str. His widow m., 8 July 1815, George (Gordon), 4th Earl of Aberdeen [S.], and d. 26 Aug. 1833.]
MARQUESSATE II. EARLDOM and BARONY [S.] X. 1818. DUKEDOM [S.] I. 1868	2. 10. and 1. James (Hamilton), Marquess of Abercorn &c.,[3] grandson and h., being s. and h. of James Hamilton, styled Viscount Hamilton, and Harriet his wife, abovenamed. He was b. 21 Jan. 1811, in Seamore Place, Mayfair. Ed. at Harrow, and at Ch. Ch., Oxford. Lord Lieut of co. Donegal, 1844; K.G.,

da. of an Earl, viz., one of a creation of 1789, not of 1606, as if her father had suc. to the Earldom. The explanation of this special favour is, according to Wraxall, (Posth. Mem. vol. i, pp. 63–4) highly discreditable to all the parties concerned, and implies that she had been the Marquess's mistress during his first wife's lifetime. Wraxall adds that the Marquess had used his influence with Pitt to obtain the honour for her, though not "without strong marks of repugnance being evinced by their Majesties." George Selwyn writes to Lady Carlisle, 9 Nov. 1786, "Mr. Hamilton now Lord Hamilton but toujours magnifico will have one of his cousins a Lady as if she had been an Earl's daughter, and no other of her sisters. He will himself be Duc de Châtellerault, to which I know that he has no more pretensions than I should have to an estate that an ancestor of mine had sold a century ago." V.G.

1. She m., 2ndly, 23 May 1799, Capt. Joseph Copley, afterwards 3rd Bart. (on account of adultery with whom she had been divorced), the br. of the 1st wife of her former husband, and d. 19 June 1819. He d. 21 May 1838.
2. "He is stated to have always gone out shooting in his Blue Ribbon, and to have required his housemaids to wear white kid gloves when they made his bed. It is also alleged that having learnt of his second wife's contemplated elopement, he sent her 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." (G.E. Russell, Collections and Recollections, 1898). V.G.
3. As to the Dukedom of Châtellerault, to which he was served h. male of the