Thomas Hamilton 1680-1735
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Thomas HAMILTON, 6th Earl of Hadinton 1680-1735
Biographical Note
Son of Charles Hamilton, 5th earl of Haddington (1650–1685), of Tyninghame, Haddingtonshire. He was a supporter of the union of Scotland and England and of the Hanoverians. He was wounded fighting against the Jacobites at Sheriffmuir (1715). For a number of years one of the sixteen representative peers of Scotland in the House of Lords.
Books
Used an engraved bookplate:
Franks 13428 (Hamilton), The Right Honble. Thomas, Earl of Hadinton.
Franks records the arms as ‘Hamilton quartering Melrose’ and identifies the bookplate as ‘probably the plate of the 6th Earl, who succeeded 1685 and died 1735’.
Sources
- Gambier Howe, E. R. J. Franks bequest: catalogue of British and American book plates bequeathed to the ... British Museum. London, 1903.
- Henderson, T. F., and David Moody. "Hamilton, Thomas, sixth earl of Haddington (1680–1735), politician and forester." Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.