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Thom's Irish Who's Who/Hamilton, Right Hon. Lord Claud John

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3140103Thom's Irish Who's Who — Hamilton, Right Hon. Lord Claud John


HAMILTON, Right Hon. Lord Claud John; P.C. (1917): formerly Capt. Gren, Gds.; Col. Comd. 5th Batt. (Mil.) Roy. Inniskilling Fus., 1867-91, and Hon. Col., 1891-1908; A.D.C. to Queen Victoria, 1887-97: a junior Lord of the Treasury, 1868; M.P. for Londonderry, 1865-68; King's Lynn, 1869-80; Liverpool, 1880-85; W. Derby Div., 1885-88, and for S. Kensington, Jan., 1910, to Dec, 1918: High Steward of Gt. Yarmouth since 1903, and of Harwich; Knight of Justice of the Order of St. John of Jerusalem; Chairman of the Gt. Eastern Railway Co.; 2nd son of 1st Duke of Abercorn, K.G.; b. 1843; m. 1878, Carolina, dau. of E. Sacheverell Chandos Pole. Radbourne Hall, Derby, who died Sept., 1911. Res.: 28 Cambridge Square, W. Clubs—Carlton, S.W.; Bachelors', Guards', W.