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BELHAVEN 97 at Edinburgh, Penelope, yst. da. of Ronald Macdonald, of Clanranald, CO. Inverness (4th Baron Clanranald [S.] according to the Jacobite (^) crea- tion of 1 7 1 6), by his 2nd wife, Flora, da. of ( — ) MacKinnon, of Mackinnon. He d. 29 Oct. 1 8 14, aged 49, at Wishaw House. Admon. June 1834. His widow d. 5 May 18 16, at Edinburgh. M.I. to both at Cambusnethan. VIII. 1814. 8. Robert Montgomery (Hamilton), Lord Belhaven AND Stenton [S.], s. and h., b. 1793. Rep. Peer [S.] 1819-32 (Whig). On 10 Sep. 1831 he was cr. BARON HAMILTON OF WISHAW, CO. Lanark [U.K.J.C) High Commissioner to the Gen. Assemblyand Kirk [S.] 1831-41, 1847-51, 1853-57, and 1860-66. K.T. I July 1 86 1. Lord Lieut, of co. Lanark 1863 till his death. He m., 16 Dec. 181 5, at Cambusnethan, Hamilton, da. of Walter Frederick Camp- bell, of Shawfield, by his 2nd wife, Mary Nisbet. He d. s.p., 22 Dec. 1868, in his 76th year, at Wishaw House, when the Barony [U.K.] granted to him in 1831 became extinct, and the Scottish Peerage remained dormant for some years. His widow d. 8 Sep. 1873, at Wishaw House, aged 83. Both were bur. at Cambusnethan. IX. [1868 9. James Hamilton, cousin and h. male, was, in 1868, and] entitled to be Lord Belhaven and Stenton [S.], but did 1875. not assume that title till it was determined in his favour by the House of Lords, 3 Aug. i875.(') He was s. and h. of Archibald Hamilton, Surgeon 2nd regt., by Mary, da. of David Clarke, which Archibald was s. and h. of James H., of Stevenston in Bothwell, s. of another James H., of the same, who was a yr. br. of William H., of Wishaw, the father of Robert, the de jure 6th Lord. He was^. 29 Aug. 1822, and J«c. his father 23 Feb. 1823. Hew., 30 Aug. 1877, Georgina, 4th da. of Sir John Watson, Bart., of Earnock and Neilsland, CO. Lanark. He d. s.p.m., 6 Sep. 1893, at Edinburgh, aged 71. His widow was living 1910. X. 1893. 10. Alexander Charles (Hamilton), Lord Belhaven and Stenton [S. 1647], 4^^ cousin and h. male, being 2nd,() but then ist surv. s. and h. male of William John Hamilton, by his 2nd wife, Margaret Frances, da. of Henry Augustus (Lee-Dillon), 13th Viscount Dillon of Costello [I.], which William John (who d. 26 June 1867, aged 61), was s. of William Richard Hamilton, sometime Minister at Naples (d. 11 July 1859, aged 82), s, of Anthony Hamilton, D.D., Archdeacon of Colchester (d. 4 Oct. 18 12, aged 73), s. of Alexander Hamilton, of London, Solicitor (d. 1781, aged 87), who was yst. br. of if) For a list of Jacobite peerages, see vol. i, Appendix F. i^) This was one of the 22 Peerages [U.K.] cr. on the coronation of William IV, for a list of which see Appendix F in this volume. (') "The petitioner is of Albany street, Leith, recently clerk to a wine mer- chant." {Her. and Gen., Mar. 1 873, vol. viii, p. 64). {^) His elder br. of the half blood, Col. R. W. Hamilton, had unsuccessfully claimed the Peerage on the death of the 8th Lord. H