Early life
Hamilton was born at St. James's Square,Personal life and death
260px, "Edwards Hamilton family on a Terrace", 1734 by ">William Hogarth Lord Anne Hamilton reputedly married Mary Edwards, in or before 1731, in a clandestine marriage said to have been in the chapel of the Fleet Prison. It was reported in The Gentleman's Magazine but the chapel records do not include details and Mary Edwards denied it and never changed her name. She was the daughter and heiress of Francis Edwards of Welham Grove, Leicestershire. She was one of the greatest heiresses of her day with an annual income of between £50,000 and £60,000. Lord Anne assumed Mary Edwards' name and arms as Lord Anne Edwards Hamilton. Their portraits were painted by William Hogarth with their son Gerard Anne Edwards. Mary Edwards also commissioned Hogarth to paint Taste in High Life in 1742. The couple had one child, a son: *Gerard Anne Edwardes (1734–1773), married in 1754, Lady Jane Noel, daughter of Baptist Noel, 4th Earl of Gainsborough of the first creation. They were the parents of Sir Gerard Noel, 2nd Baronet, ancestor of the Earls of Gainsborough of the second creation. Sometime after 1734, because she felt that Lord Anne was becoming spendthrift with her money, Mary Edwards left him and took the extraordinary step of repudiating her marriage. She declared herself a single woman and took steps to create evidence that no marriage had ever taken place; their child, Gerard Anne Edwards, was rendered illegitimate, and took his mother's surname. After this unprecedented development, Hamilton married Anna Charlotta Maria Powell, daughter of Charles Powell, in October 1742. They had two sons: * Lieutenant-Colonel James Hamilton (1746–1804) *References
Further reading
* Anderson, John, ''Historical and genealogical memoirs of the House of Hamilton; with genealogical memoirs of the several branches of the family''. Edinburgh 1825 * Balfour Paul, Sir James. ''The Scots Peerage IX vols''. Edinburgh 1907 {{DEFAULTSORT:Hamilton, Anne 1709 births 1748 deaths People from Westminster Nobility from South Lanarkshire Younger sons of dukes Coldstream Guards officers Burials at St James's Church, Piccadilly