James Hamilton, 5th Duke of Hamilton and 2nd Duke of Brandon KT FRS (5 January 1703 – 2 March 1743) was a Scottish

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, the son of the 4th Duke of Hamilton. Hamilton attended

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from 1716 to 1717. He matriculated at

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on 2 May 1718 and was created a DCL on 6 June 1719. He succeeded to his father's title of

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in 1712 following his death in the notorious Hamilton–Mohun Duel in Hyde Park. At the foundation of the noted charity, the

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, Hamilton was one of the charity's first governors and his name is listed on the organisation's

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, granted in October 1739. On 14 February 1723 (

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), Hamilton married Lady Anne Cochrane, a daughter of the 4th Earl of Dundonald and they had one child, James (1724–1758), later 6th Duke of Hamilton. Anne was the granddaughter of

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. She died from childbirth and Hamilton married Elizabeth Strangways (an aunt of the Countess of Ilchester), but she died childless on 3 November 1729. He then married

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(an aunt of the Countess of Galloway) on 21 August 1737 and they had three children: * Lady Anne Hamilton (1738 – 11 November 1780), who married

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. They had three sons. *

Archibald Hamilton, 9th Duke of Hamilton Archibald Hamilton, 9th Duke of Hamilton and 6th Duke of Brandon (15 July 1740 – 16 February 1819) was a Scottish peer and politician. Background and education Hamilton was the second son of the 5th Duke of Hamilton, by his third wife, Ann ...

(15 July 1740 – 16 February 1819) *Lord Spencer Hamilton (1742 – 20 March 1791) Hamilton died in 1743, aged 40 at

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from

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and

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. His widow married

Richard Savage Nassau Richard Savage Nassau (1 June 1723 – 17 May 1780) was an English Member of Parliament who served from 1747 to 1780, with a 20-year gap between 1754 and 1774. He was born at St Osyth's Priory, the second son of Frederick Nassau de Zuylestein, ...

and had three more children.

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