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his estates to his daughter, the 

 marchioness of Graham. She in- 

 herited Brodick Castle and most of 

 the isle of Arran. Hamilton Palace 

 and the estates in Lanarkshire 

 went to the new duke. The duke's 

 eldest son is known as marquess of 

 Douglas and Clydesdale. y. 



Hamilton, JAMES HAMILTON, 

 IST DUKE OF (1606^9). Scottish 

 politician. The eldest son of the 



James, Duke ot Hamilton 



After Van Dyck 



2nd marquess of Hamilton, he was 

 born June 19, 1(506. For a time he 

 was at Exeter College, Oxford, and, 

 having become marquess in 1625, 

 he went to the court of Charles I. 

 He was for about three years in 

 Germany, whither he took a force 

 to aid Gustavus Adolphus, but he 

 returned in time to assist Charles 

 with his advice. 



In the intrigues that preceded 

 the Civil War, Hamilton was pro- 

 minent, the king relying greatly on 

 his counsel. In 1641 he deserted 

 Charles, but soon he was serving 

 him again. 



When war broke out he re- 

 mained in Scotland, being leader of 

 a faction there ; but his plans and 

 intrigues failed, and, discredited, 

 he left Edinburgh for Oxford. 

 Charles put him in prison, but soon 

 he was released. Then came the 

 crowning act of his life, his leader- 

 ship of a strong Scottish force to 

 restore Charles, which led to the 

 renewal of the civil war in 1648. 

 Incompetent as a general, he was 

 easily routed at Preston, and was 

 made prisoner. Tried and found 

 guilty, on March 9, 1649, he was 

 executed. 



Hamilton, ALEXANDER (1757- 

 1804). American statesman. He 

 was born Jan. 11, 1757, on the 

 island of Nevis, West Indies, of 

 which his mother was a native ; 

 his lather was a Scotsman. Edu- 

 cated at King's (later Columbia) 

 College, New \ork, at the age of 17 



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he published essays on The Rights 

 of the Colonies. At the age of 20 he 

 was a lieutenant-colonel and aide- 

 de-camp to George Washington. 

 In 1780 he married a daughter of 

 General Schuyler, who survived 

 him 50 years. In 1782 he was 

 elected a member of Congress for 

 the state of New York, in 1786 

 became a mem- 

 ber of the New 

 York Legisla- 

 ture, and in 

 1787 he was a 

 delegate to the 

 convention for 

 framing the 

 constitution of 

 the U.S.A., 

 with the draft- 

 ing of which 



he is believed AflerTrumbull 



to have had much to do. A year 

 later he was a member of the New 

 York State Convention for ratifying 

 that constitution. In the interval, 

 with two friends, he had produced 

 The Federalist, explaining the con- 

 stitution to the people. 



From 1789-95 he was secretary 

 to the Treasury, when he estab- 

 lished the National Bank, and 

 proved himself a great financier. 

 After resigning from the Treasury 

 he practised law in New York. In 

 1798 he was appointed second in 

 command of the provisional army 

 in anticipation of a French inva- 

 sion, and on the death of Washing- 

 ton in the following year was in 

 chief command. On July 11, 1804, 

 he was wounded in a duel with 

 Aaron Burr, and died on the follow- 

 ing day. Washington's closest and 

 ablest associate, Hamilton was a 

 great and clear thinker, whose 

 influence on the political develop- 

 ment of his country was enormous. 

 Bibliography. Life, by his son, 

 J. C. Hamilton, 1834-40; Hamil- 

 ton and his Contemporaries, C. J. 

 Riethmuller, 1864 ; Life and Epoch 

 of Alexander Hamilton, G. Shea, 

 1879 ; Alexander Hamilton, H. C. 

 Lodge, 1886; and Alexander Hamil- 

 ton, F. S. Oliver, 1906. Gertrude 

 Atherton's novel, The Conqueror, 

 1902, deals with Hamilton's life in 

 graphic fashion, and the same 

 author edited his Letters, 1903. 



Hamilton, ANTHONY, COUNT (c. 

 1646-1720). British author and 

 soldier. One of 

 the sons of Sir 

 George Hamil- 

 ton, a younger 

 son of the 

 duke of Aber- 

 conij he is be- 

 lieved to have 

 been born at 

 Rosecrea, Tip- 

 perary,in!646. 

 He took part 

 British soldier ' in the fighting 



Sir B. M. Hamilton, 

 British soldier 



in Ireland, 1689-90, and was at 

 the battle of the Boyne, after which 

 he went abroad and spent most of 

 his life at the court of the Stuarts 

 in exile at Germain-en-Laye, where 

 he died, April 21, 1720. He is 

 chiefly remembered as writer of 

 the lively Memoirs of the Court of 

 Charles II, of his brother-in-law, 

 the count of Gramont (q.v.). 



Hamilton, SIR BRUCE MEADE (b. 

 1857). British soldier. Bora Dec. 

 7, 1857, he entered the East York- 

 shire regiment 

 in 1877. A 

 long career of 

 active service 

 began in Af- 

 ghanistan in 

 1880, and in 

 succeeding 

 years he was 

 in S. Africa 

 and Burma. 

 In 1895, as 



a major, he Lafayette 



was in Ashanti, and in 1897 in 

 Benin, where he commanded the 

 Niger Coast Protectorate Force. 

 During the S. African War he served 

 first on the staff and afterwards in 

 command of the 21 st brigade, and of 

 a flying column. In 1903 he was put 

 in charge of a brigade at Aldershot ; 

 a divisional command followed, 

 and from 1909-13 he commanded 

 the Scottish district. During the 

 Great War Hamilton was in com- 

 mand of an army raised for home 

 defence in 1914-15, and in 1915- 

 16 was in charge of the training 

 centre at Ripon. In 1902 he was 

 knighted, and in 1913 made a full 

 general. 



Hamilton, CICELY (b. 1872). 

 British author, playwright, and 

 actress. Born in London, her fame 

 as a play- 

 wright rests 

 chiefly on 

 Diana of Dob- 

 son's, 1906. 

 Her other pub- 

 lications i n - 

 elude three 

 novels based 

 on her plays : 

 Diana of Dob- 

 son's ; Just to 

 Get Married ; 

 and A Matter of Money, 1916; a 

 study of Marriage as a Trade and 

 William, an Englishman, 1919. 

 She also wrote and lectured largely 

 on feminist subjects. 



Hamilton, LORD CLAUD JOHN 

 (1843-1925). ' British politician and 

 railway director. Born Feb. 20, 

 1843, a son of the 1st duke of 

 Abercorn, from Harrow he joined 

 the Grenadier Guards, but after 

 three years entered Parliament as 

 M P. for Londonderry city. In 

 1868 he served as a lord of the 



Cicely Hamilton, 

 British author 



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