HAMILTON, William 1 2
Another name for William was HAMILTOUNE, William.3 User ID: P657. General Notes: "HAMILTON William married Helen HAY 'of Woodcockdale'.1 (Helen HAY 'of Woodcockdale' was born about 1695.) Marriage Notes: 3. William (Hamilton), born 6th August 1685, bred to the law in Scotland ; went to London soon after the Union, and was admitted to the English bar. He married Helen, daughter of David Hay of Woodcockdale in the co. of Linlithgow, sister of David Bruce of Kinnaird, and had one son, the Right Hon. William Gerard Hamilton, born in Lincoln's-Inn- Fields, 28th January 1729, elected M.P. for Petersfield on a vacancy, in 1754, sat for other places in eight successive Parliaments, and was 42 years in the House of Commons. He was Chancellor of the Exchequer in Ireland, from 1763 till 1784, and was one of the reputed authors of the Letters of Junius. He died, unmarried, at Loudon on 16th July 1796, in the 6Sth year of his age, and was buried in the chancel vault of St Martin's-in-the-Fields. His paternal estate devolved on his cousin, William Hamilton of Lincoln's-Inn- Fields." |