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DEBRETT'S ILLUSTRATED PEERAGE. 229 Brother tiring, Charles George Archibald, heir presumptive, b. 1847; was educated at Eton; appointed Cornet in the llth (Prince Albert's Own) Hussars, 1866, and has since retired ; was Aide-de-Camp to Baron Napier of Magdala, during the Abyssinian war, 186; 8. Sister living, Mary Victoria, b. 1850, m. 1869, ( Valentinois) . Creations, Earl of Angus, 1389, Baron Hamilton, 1445, Earl ot Arran, 1503, Marquess of Hamilton, 1599, Baron Abernethy and Jedburgh Forest, and Marquess of Douglas, 1633, Baron Avon, Polmont, Mackanshire, and Innerdale, Earl of Lanark, Marquess of Clydesdale, and Duke of Hamilton, 1643, all in the peerage of Scotland ; Duke of Brandon, in the county of Suffolk, and Baron of Dutton, in the county of Chester, both in the peerage of Great Britain, 1711. The Dukedom of Chatelherault, in France, (1552), in dispute between the Duke of Hamilton and the Duke of Abercorn, was confirmed to the former by Imperial decree, in 1864. To this decision an appeal has been lodged by the Duke of Abercorn. Patron of one living, Easton, R. Suffolk. Srtns, Quarterly: 1st and 4th, grand quarters, quarterly, 1st and 4th, gules, three cinquefoils, pierced, ermine, Hamilton; 2nd and 3rd, argent, a lymphad, with the sails furled, sable, Arran; 2nd and 3rd, grand quarters, quarterly, 1st, azure, a lion rampant, or; 2nd, or, a lion rampant, gules, debruised by a bendlet, sable, Galloway ; 3rd, argent, three piles, gules, Wishurt; 4th, or, a fesse, cheeky, argent and azure, surmounted with a bend, gules, charged with three buckles, of the first ; in an escutcheon of the first, over the last four quarters, the arms of Douglas, viz, argent, a heart, gules, ensigned with an imperial crown, proper, on a chief, azure, three mullets, argent, Creat. Out of a ducal coronet, or, an oak tree, proper, fructed gold, 'and penetrated transversely in the main stem by a frame-saw, proper, the frame, or, and the blade inscribed with the word " Through." Supporters, Two antelopes, argent, armed, unguled, ducally gorged, and chained, or. Seats, Hamilton-palace, Lanarkshire; and Kinniel, Linlithgowshire, Scotland; Brodick-castle, Isle of Arran; and Chateau of Marchais, near Laon, France. Town Residence, 6, Charles-street, Berkeley-square, W. HAMILTON, Duke of, His Grace's predecessor was his father, William Alexander Anthony Archibald, llth Duke of Hamilton, and 8th Duke of Brandon, who was b. Feb. 19, 1811 ; succeeded his father, Aug. 18, 1852 ; he was Lord Lieut, of Lanarkshire ; TO. Feb. 23, 1843, the Princess Marie, daughter of the late reigning (Charles Louis Frederick) Grand Duke of Baden, and cousin of Napoleon III. and d. July 15, 1863, having Issue two sons and a daughter. HAMILTON, Duchess of, Her Highness the Princess MARIE AMELIA ELIZABETH CAROLINE, daughter of the late Grand Duke of Baden, and cousin to the ex-Emperor Napoleon III. : m. 1843, the llth Duke of Hamilton, who d. 1863. Seats and Residence, same as the Duke of Hamilton. Hamilton, Marquess of, son of the Duke of Abercorn. (see Abercorn.) ,, Baron and Viscount, titles borne by the Duke of Abercorn. ,, Baron, title borne by the Duke of Argyll. family name of the Duke of Abercorn. ,, ,, Viscount Boyne. ,, ,, ,, Baron Belhaven and Stenton. , , (Baillie-Hamilton) , family % name of the late Earl of Haddington, ,, (Baillie-Arden-Hamilton), family name of the Earl of Haddington. Hamilton-Blackwood, family name of the Earl of Dufferin.