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HAMILTON. 147 Marquess op Clydesdale, Earl op Ariun, Lanark, and Cambridge, Lord Aven, Polmont, Machansire, and Lnnerdale [S.] He took his oaths and seat in Pari. [SJ. 21 May 1700 ; was a firm opponent of the Union [S.] by every constitutional method hut took no part iu the cmtemplated insurrection of that date ; was IiEr. Peer [8.1 1708-12; Lord Lieut, of Lancashire, 1710; P.O., 1710. He was ci, 10 Sep. 1711, (") a Peer of Great Britain^') aa BARON OF DUTTON, co. Chester, and DUKK OF BRANDON, co. Suffolk, with a spec. rem. failing heirs male of his body to those of his parents. He was appointed (but never went) Ambassador to Paris, 29 Aug. 1712, on the conclusion of the peace at Utrecht ; Master Gen. of the Ordnance, Sep. 1712; el KG., 25 Oct. 1712,( c ) but was never installed.!") He m. firstly Anne, l^t da. of Robert (Spencer), 2d Karl op Scndehland, by Anne, 2d da. of George (Dronv), 2d Earl op Biustol. She, who was 5. 24 June 1686, at Chiswick, Midx., d. s.p.m. 2 July 1090, aged 24, at Kinniel House, co, Linlithgow, and was bur. at Hamilton. He m. secondly (articles 15 June 1698), Elizabeth, only da. and h. of Digby (Gerard), 5th Baron Gerard of Gerards Bromley, by Elizabeth, da. (whose issue in 1702 became coheir) of Charles (Gerard), 1st Earl of Macclesfield. HisGrace was slain in a duel in Hyde Park with Lord Mohun (who himself was also slain), 15 Nov. 1712, aged 54. (") "Will pr. Feb. 1717. His widow, who inherited considerable estates in Lancashire and Staffordshire, d. in St. James sq., 13, and was bur. 21 Feb. 1743/4, at St. James's, Westm., in her 63d year. Admon. 28 June 1744. (■] The preamble to this creation is in Crawfurd's "peerage" [IS.], fol. 216. ( b ) This was not the first peerage of Great Britain that had been granted to a Scotch Peer, inasmuch as the Duke of Queeusberry [S.], had been on 26 May 1708, cr. Duke of Dover [G.B.], and had taken his seat in the house of Lords accordingly 19 Nov. following. Notwithstanding this, however, the writ of summons was refused to the Duke of Brandon, tho' he continued to sit as a Rep Peer for Scotland to the end of his life. See vol. i, p. 164, note "d," sub "Dover." (°) He had the rare distinction of retaining (tho' but for a few weeks) the order of the Thistle with that of the Garter. See vol. i, p. 11, note "b," sub " Aberdeen/' as to those similarly honoured. ( ll ) Letters of dispensation were granted 4 Aug. 1713 (after his death) to authorise his name being numbered among those who had received installation. A plate (made from what was said to be an impression of one prepared on the occasion) was in 1836 (some 120 years after his death) affixed to his stall. See Beltz's " Knights of the Garter," p. exxiv. This plate (which as the Dukes death took place but 3 weeks after his election must have been prepared in a prodigious hurry) besides styling him "Due de Chateauhcraidt " in France, as also K.T., designates him as to his Scotch titles Duke of Hamilton, Marquess of Clydesdale, Earl of Arran, and Lanark, Lord of Aven, Machansire, Pomout. and Daire. This last Barony is possibly a mistake for lnnerdale (one of the Baronies cr. with the Dukedom iu 1643) as the Barony of Daer which was or. with the Earldom of Selkirk in 1646 would apparently have followed the course of that Earldom. The Baronies attributed to the 1st and 2d Marquess (of whom the latter was afterwards 1st Duke) on their Garter plates of 1623 and 1630 are " Even and Avendale," as also [the English Barony of] Ennerdale. The 2d Duke was never installed. The next Duke (the first of the house of Douglas) is designated on his plate, 1682, " Due de Hamilton, Marquis de Clidesdale, Comte de Aran, Lanerick et Selkrike [sic], Baron de Aven, Machansire, Pomont et Daire," tho Barony of Daor being here (rightly) introduced with the Earldom of Selkirk. On none of these plates save on the one introduced in 1836 (for the K.G. of 1712) appears the style of "Due de Chatellerault " in France. (°) In Macky's " Characters " it is said of him when "towards 50," that "On the Queen's accession he made strong efforts to get into the administration, but has not yet succeeded, tho' he is well received at Court ; he is brave in his person, with a rough air of bolduess ; of good sense, very forward and hot for what he undertakes, ambitious and haughty ; a violent enemy," has been very extravagant in his manner of living, but now grow covetous ; he is supposed to have some thoughts towards the Crown op Enoland when the Queen dies, being descended from the house of Stuart, &c. Has a great estate, is of a middle stature well made, of a black coarse complexion, and a brisk look." To this Dean Swift adds : " He was made master of the ordnance ; a worthy good naturcd person, very generous but of a middle understanding ; Ac was murdered by that villain Macartney, an Irish Scot." Bp. Burnet, who knew