Basil Hamilton (8 September 1696 – 14 November 1742) was a Scottish
Jacobite
Jacobite means follower of Jacob or James. Jacobite may refer to:
Religion
* Jacobites, followers of Saint Jacob Baradaeus (died 578). Churches in the Jacobite tradition and sometimes called Jacobite include:
** Syriac Orthodox Church, sometimes ...
.
Early life
He was the second son of
Lord Basil Hamilton and Mary Dunbar, granddaughter and heiress of
Sir David Dunbar, 1st Baronet, of
Baldoon. His elder brother, William Hamilton, succeeded their father but died unmarried before November 1703, after which the Baldoon estate passed to Basil.
His sisters were Eleanor Hamilton (wife of
John Murray of Philiphaugh) and Catherine Hamilton (wife of
Thomas Cochrane, 6th Earl of Dundonald).
His father was the sixth son of
William Hamilton, Duke of Hamilton and
Anne Hamilton, ''
suo jure''
Duchess of Hamilton
The Duchess of Hamilton is usually the spouse of the Duke of Hamilton, but in one case is a Duchess of Hamilton in her own right (''suo jure''). Duke of Hamilton is an extant title in the Peerage of Scotland which was created in 1643.
Duchesses o ...
. His maternal grandfather was David Dunbar the Younger of Baldoon.
Career
During the
Jacobite rising of 1715 he commanded a troop of horse under
Thomas Forster
Thomas Forster (1683 – October 1738), of Adderstone Hall, Northumberland, was an English landowner and Tory politician who sat in the House of Commons from 1708 to 1716. He served as a general of the Jacobite army in the 1715 Uprising ...
and was taken prisoner at the
Battle of Preston. He was sentenced to death in 1716, but reprieved through the influence of his uncle
Lord Orkney. His estates were forfeited, but successfully claimed by his mother, and the forfeiture was reversed in 1733.
In
1734
Events
January– March
* January 8 – Salzburgers, Lutherans who were expelled by the Roman Catholic Bishop of Salzburg, Austria, in October 1731, set sail for the British Colony of Province of Georgia, Georgia in North America ...
, he unsuccessfully stood as
the Duke of Buccleuch's candidate for
Dumfries Burghs
Dumfries Burghs was a district of burghs constituency of the House of Commons of Great Britain from 1708 to 1801 and of the House of Commons of the Parliament of the United Kingdom from 1801 until 1918. It elected one Member of Parliament (MP ...
. He advised against another Jacobite uprising in 1739. In 1741 he was returned to Parliament for
Kirkcudbright, but died the following year.
Personal life
In , Hamilton was married to Isabella Mackenzie (d. 1725), a daughter of Elizabeth ( Paterson) Mackenzie (a daughter of
Kenneth Mackenzie of Suddie
Captain Kenneth Mackenzie, 2nd of Suddie was a Scottish soldier who was killed at the Battle of Mulroy in 1688 whilst commanding Government troops against rebel Scottish clans.
Lineage
He was the son of Alexander Mackenzie, 1st of Suddie and his ...
) and Col. Hon. Alexander Mackenzie (a son of
Kenneth Mackenzie, 4th Earl of Seaforth
Kenneth Mackenzie, 4th Earl of Seaforth, KT, PC (S) ( bapt. 8 December 1661 – January 1701) was a Scottish peer and Jacobite supporter, known as Lord Mackenzie of Kintail from birth until 1678.
Life
Mackenzie was the eldest son of Kenne ...
). Together, they had two sons and two daughters, including:
* Mary Hamilton (1720–1750), who married Ranald
Macdonald of Clanranald.
* Elizabeth Hamilton (b. 1721), who died young.
*
Dunbar Hamilton (1722–1799), who succeeded as the 4th
Earl of Selkirk in 1744 and resumed the name of Douglas.
* Basil Hamilton, who died young.
His wife died on 6 April 1725. Hamilton died on 14 November 1742.
References
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1696 births
1742 deaths
Scottish Jacobites
British MPs 1741–1747
People of the Jacobite rising of 1715
Scottish prisoners sentenced to death