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Lord Abercorn^[1] [1603], Lord Paisley, Hamilton, Mount Castell and Kilpatrick (1606), in that of Scotland,^[2] 1st s. and h. He was b. 24 Aug. 1838, at Brighton; was styled Viscount Hamilton till 1868, and Marquess of Hamilton 1868 to 1885; ed. at Harrow, and at Ch. Ch., Oxford; B.A. 1860; M.A. 1865; was M.P. (Conservative) for co. Donegal 1860–80; Sheriff of co. Tyrone 1863; a Lord of the Bedchamber to the Prince of Wales 1866–85, and Groom of the Stole 1886–1891; attached to the Garter mission to Denmark, Apr. 1865; C.B. (civil) 1865; Knight of the Dannebrog of Denmark, of the St. Anne of Russia, and of the Iron-Crown of Austria; sometime Hon. Col. 5th Batt. Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers; Lord Lieut., of co. Donegal, 1885; Grand Master of Freemasons [I.] 1886; Chairman of the British South African Company. K.G. 10 Aug. 1892. Special Envoy to the Courts of Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Prussia, and Saxony, to announce the accession of H.M. King Edward VII, 1901. Lord High Constable [I.] at the Coronation of Edward VII, 9 Aug. 1902. He m., 7 Jan. 1869, at St. Geo., Han. Sq., Mary Anna, 2nd da. of Richard William Penn (Curzon-Howe), 1st Earl Howe, by his 2nd wife, Anne, 2nd da. of Admiral Sir John Gore, K.C.B. She was b. 23 July 1848.

[James Albert Edward Hamilton, styled, since 1885, Marquess of Hamilton, 1st s. and h. ap.; b. 30 Nov. 1869, in Hamilton Place, Piccadilly, the Prince of Wales being one of his sponsors. Ed. at Eton. Sometime Capt. 1st Life Guards. M.P. Londonderry City 1900. Treasurer of the Household, 1903–5. He m., 1 Nov. 1894, at St. Paul's, Knightsbridge, Rosaline Cecilia Caroline, only da. of Charles George (Bingham), 4th Earl of Lucan [I.], by Cecilia Catherine, da. of Charles (Gordon-Lennox), 5th Duke of Richmond. She was b. 26 Feb. 1869.]

[James Edward Hamilton, styled Lord Paisley, b. 29 Feb. 1904, for whom the King stood sponsor].

Family Estates.—These, in 1883, consisted of 76,500 acres in Ireland (viz. 60,000 in co. Tyrone and 16,500 in co. Donegal), worth £41,000 a year, and of 2,162 in Scotland (viz. 1,500 in co. Edinburgh and 662 in co. Renfrew), worth £11,900 a year.^[3] Total, 78,662 acres, worth about

Her s. Lord Claud H. writes that in Dec. 1904 she had 162 living descendants! V.G.

1. Sir James B. Paul points out that the anomalous style for a Scots peerage "Baron of Abercorn" given in Wood's Douglas is merely that writer's translation of the common form "Dominus de Abercorn" which occurs in the Register of the Great Seal in the charter to Abercorn, and freely elsewhere. V.G.
2. The Duke of Abercorn, the Marquess of Lansdowne since 1895, and the Earl of Verulam, are the only Peers (in 1909) who, besides their Peerage of Parliament, possess Peerages both in Scotland and Ireland. From 1688 to 1715 the famous Duke of Ormonde, from 1836 to 1889 the Dukes of Buckingham and Chandos, and from 1840 to 1868 the Marquesses of Hastings enjoyed the same distinction.
3. Bentley Priory in Harrow (near Stanmore), Midx., which, since 1788, had been the property and chief residence of the family, was sold by the 1st Duke, some 90 years subsequently, to Sir John Kelk, Bart. It is now (1909) an hotel, the land having been laid out for villas.