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  HAMILTON - LoveToKnow Article on HAMILTON   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
I 5431622), ancestor of the dukes of Abercorn.
At the pacification of Perth in 1573 the Hamiltons abandoned Marys cause, and a reconciliation with the Douglases was sealed by Lord Johns marriage with Margaret, daughter of the 7th Lord Glamis, a cousin of the regent Morton.
JAMES DOUGLAS, 4th duke of Hamilton (1658-1712), eldest son of the preceding and of Duchess Anne, succeeded his mother, who resigned the dukedom to him in 1698, and at the accession of Queen Anne he was regarded as leader of the Scottish national party.
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 Encyclopedia: James Douglas
James Douglas Sir James Douglas, K.C.B, (1803 – August 2, 1877), was born of a Scottish father and Creole mother in Demerara.
James Buster Douglas (born April 7, 1960) was a heavyweight boxer from Columbus, Ohio who scored one of the biggest upsets ever in the sport by knocking out then-undefeated Mike Tyson in 10 rounds in 1990.
Dr James Douglas (born 1675, died April 2, 1742), was a Scottish physician and anatomist, member of the Royal Society, and physician to the Queen.
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 Duke Of Hamilton   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
The 1st Earl of Selkirk's eldest son James Hamilton (1658-1712) was known as the Earl of Arran until 9 July 1698 when his mother, Anne Hamilton, abdicated her titles of Duchess of Hamilton, Marquesses of Clydesdale, Lady Aven and Innerdale, Countess of Arran and Cambridge, Countess of Lanark and Lady Machansyre and Polmont.
The 4th Duke's son James Douglas (1703-1743) was succeeded by his son James Douglas-Hamilton (1724-1758) and he by his son James George Douglas-Hamilton(1755-1769) who became the 7th Duke of Hamilton upon his father's death.
The 11th Duke's son William Alexander Louis Stephen Douglas-Hamilton (1845-1895) died without a male heir and the title of 13th Duke of Hamilton passed to his distant cousin Alfred Douglas Douglas-Hamilton (1862-1940) who was descended from the 4th Duke of Hamilton.
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 James Douglas, 4th Duke of Hamilton - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Most Noble James Douglas, 4th Duke of Hamilton, (1658 – November 15, 1712), eldest son of William Douglas, Duke of Hamilton and of Duchess Anne, succeeded his mother, who resigned the dukedom to him in 1698.
As such, he was an opponent of the Union with England, but his lack of decision rendered his political conduct ineffective.
As an attempt to woo him, additionally he was created Duke of Brandon in the peerage of Great Britain in 1711; and on 15 November in the following year he fought the celebrated duel with Charles Mohun, Lord Mohun, narrated in Thackeray’s Esmond, in which both the principals were killed.
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 Clan Hamilton   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
The current Hamilton 'chief', Angus Douglas Hamilton, 15th Duke of Hamilton, is still the Premier Duke of Scotland, the Hereditary Keeper of the Palace of Holyroodhouse and a member of the Royal Company of Archers.
The 3rd Earl of Arran became the 1st Marquess of Hamilton and the 3rd Marquess became the 1st Duke of Hamilton.
The 4th Duke was made the Duke of Brandon by Queen Anne in 1711, an additional title that all Dukes have carried to this day.
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 Duke of Hamilton -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
The Duke of Hamilton is one of the most ennobled individuals in the United Kingdom, holding, in addition to the Dukedoms, nine subsidiary titles.
The 1st Earl of Selkirk's eldest son James Hamilton (1658-1712) was known as the Earl of Arran until 9 July 1698 when his mother, Anne Hamilton, abdicated her titles of Duchess of Hamilton, Marchioness of Clydesdale, Lady Aven and Innerdale, Countess of Arran and Cambridge, Countess of Lanark and Lady Machansyre and Polmont.
The 4th Duke's son James Douglas (1703-1743) was succeeded by his son James Douglas-Hamilton (1724-1758) and he by his son James George Douglas-Hamilton (1755-1769) who became the 7th Duke of Hamilton upon his father's death.
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 James Douglas - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
James Douglas ("the Good", "the Black") an early-14th century Lord of Douglas and champion of Robert the Bruce
James Douglas a mid-19th century governor of Vancouver Island and British Columbia, also the regional head of Hudson's Bay Company operations in the Columbia District
James Douglas (physician) 17th century Scottish anatomist and physician
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 Earl Of Selkirk   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
William Douglas (1634-1694), younger son of the 1st Marquess of Douglas was created Earl of Selkirk and Lord Daer and Shortcleuch in the peerage of Scotland on 4 August 1646.
He outlived his son and heir and the titles created with the Earl of Ruglen was passed onto his daughter Anne Hamilton, 2nd Countess of Ruglen and through her marriage to the families of the Earl of March and the Duke of Queensberry.
His son Thomas Douglas (1771-1820) and grandson Dunbar James Douglas (1809-1885) succeeded him but upon the 6th Earl's death the title Earl of Selkirk devolved upon the 12th Duke of Hamilton, given special remainder this meant that the title was inherited by the 12th Duke's younger brother, Charles George Douglas-Hamilton (1847-1886).
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 Encyclopedia: James Douglas, 4th Duke of Hamilton
James Douglas, 4th Duke of Hamilton, (1658 –; November 15, 1712), eldest son of William Douglas, Duke of Hamilton and of Duchess Anne, succeeded his mother, who resigned the dukedom to him in 1698.
William Douglas, 1st Earl of Selkirk (1635-1694), who was created Duke of Hamilton in 1660 on the petition of his wife, Anne Hamilton, suo jure Duchess of Hamilton (daughter of the 1st Duke), receiving also several of the other Hamilton peerages, but for his life only.
The Mausoleum of the Dukes of Hamilton sits in the grounds of the old Hamilton Palace in Hamilton The Duke of Hamilton is a title in the Peerage of Scotland created in 1643.
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 Encyclopedia: Master-General of the Ordnance   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
John Campbell, 2nd Duke of Argyll and 1st Duke of Greenwich (October 10, 1678 - October 4, 1743) was a Scottish soldier and nobleman.
Charles Lennox, 3rd Duke of Richmond and Lennox (1733 - December 1806), was one of the most remarkable men of the 18th century, being chiefly famous for his advanced views on the question of parliamentary reform.
Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington (1 May 1769–14 September 1852) was an Anglo-Irish soldier and statesman, widely considered one of the leading military and political figures of the 19th century.
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 Maximilian Genealogy Master Database 2000 - pafg208 - Generated by Personal Ancestral File   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
James HAMILTON 2nd Duke [Parents] was born 24 Aug 1838.
James Albert Edward HAMILTON 3rd Duke was born 30 Nov 1869 and died 1953.
James HAMILTON 4th Duke [Parents] was born 29 Feb 1904.
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 William Douglas, 4th Duke of Hamilton   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
From the murder of the "Black" James Douglas by James II, through to the murder of James III by the "Red" Douglases, there was much that was cruel and inhuman in the history of these two great families.
James George, 7th duke (1755-1769), became head of the house of Douglas on the death in 1761 of Archibald, ; duke of Douglas, whose titles but not his estates then devolved on the duke of Hamilton as heir-male.
William Alexander, 11th duke of Hamilton (1811-1863), married Princess Marie Amelie, daughter of Charles, grand-duke of Baden, and, on her mother's side, a cousin of Napoleon III.
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 List of the Knights of the Garter (1348-present)
96 (inv 1399) Humphrey (Plantagenet), styled "of Lancaster." Duke of Gloucester.
Afterwards Duke of Edinburgh, reigning duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha 1893.
Daughter of Philip (the Bold), Duke of Burgundy, K.G. Married William of Bavaria, Duke of Holland and Count of Ostrevant, K.G. 1408 Blanch, Duchess of Bavaria.
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 Hamilton, James Douglas, 4th duke of. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
He served at the courts of Charles II and James II and remained, after his grudging acceptance of William III, a sympathizer with the Jacobites.
He became duke of Hamilton in 1698 and, although he had opposed the union of Scotland with England, entered the united Parliament as a representative Scottish peer in 1708.
Coming into favor with the Tory regime after 1710, he was made privy councilor (1710), duke of Brandon (1711), and ambassador to Paris (1712).
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 JAMES DOUGLAS - Online Information article about JAMES DOUGLAS
Alfred Douglas, a descendant of the 4th duke.
courtesy marquess of Hamilton, a title which was added to the other family honours when the 2nd marquess of Abercorn was raised to the dukedom in 1868.
Burnet, Lives of James and William, dukes of Hamilton (1677) ; The Hamilton Papers relative to 1638-165o, ed.
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 thePeerage.com - Person Page 10943
She married Sir James Hamilton, 5th Duke of Hamilton, son of Lt.-Gen. Sir James Hamilton, 4th Duke of Hamilton and Elizabeth Gerard, on 14 February 1722/23.
She married John Campbell Cochrane, 4th Earl of Dundonald, son of John Cochrane, 2nd Earl of Dundonald and Lady Susan Hamilton, on 4 April 1706.
She married Sir James Hamilton, 5th Duke of Hamilton, son of Lt.-Gen. Sir James Hamilton, 4th Duke of Hamilton and Elizabeth Gerard, in 1727.
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 James Douglas, 4th Duke of Hamilton - Open Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
James Douglas, 4th Duke of Hamilton - Open Encyclopedia
James Douglas, 4th Duke of Hamilton (1658-1712), eldest son of William Douglas, Duke of Hamilton and of Duchess Anne, succeeded his mother, who resigned the dukedom to him in 1698, and at the accession of Queen Anne he was regarded as leader of the Scottish national party.
He was created Duke of Brandon in the peerage of Great Britain in 1711; and on 15 November in the following year he fought the celebrated duel with Charles Mohun, Lord Mohun, narrated in Thackeray’s Esmond, in which both the principals were killed.
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 Earl of Selkirk -- Earl of Selkirk is a title in the Peerage of Scotland, cr...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
When he died without a male issue his distant cousin Alfred Douglas Douglas-Hamilton (1862-1940) inherited the earldom of Selkirk along with the dukedom.
Upon the death of the 10th Earl the younger brother of the 15th Duke of Hamilton, James Alexander Douglas-Hamilton became the 11th Earl.
He renounced the title Earl of Selkirk in order to remain in the House of Commons, he was later elevated to the House of Lords with a life peerage as Baron Selkirk of Douglas, and is now a Member of the Scottish Parliament.
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 Maximilian Genealogy Master Database 2000 - pafg433 - Generated by Personal Ancestral File
James DOUGLAS-HAMILTON 4th Duke [Parents] was born 11 Apr 1658.
James married Elizabeth GERARD on 17 Jul 1698.
James DOUGLAS-HAMILTON was born 5 Jan 1702 and died 9 Mar 1742.
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 thePeerage.com - Person Page 10597
She married Lt.-Gen. Sir James Hamilton, 4th Duke of Hamilton, son of Sir William Douglas-Hamilton, 1st Earl of Selkirk and Anne Hamilton, 3rd Duchess of Hamilton, on 5 January 1686/87.
On 18 December 1688, when King James II was elected from Whitehall, he was one of the four peers who accompanied him to Rochester, consequently being on the side opposed to his own father.
She married, secondly, Montagu Venables-Bertie, 2nd Earl of Abingdon, son of James Bertie, 1st Earl of Abingdon and Eleanora Lee, on 13 February 1716/17 in Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire, England.
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 Hamilton 20   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
JAMES George Douglas-Hamilton, 7th Duke of Hamilton, 4th Duke of Brandon, etc., succeeded his distant cousin 4th Marquess of Douglas 1761, *Holyrood House 18.2.1755, +Hamilton Palace 7.7.1769
Douglas Douglas-Hamilton, 8th Duke of Hamilton, 5th Duke of Brandon, etc., *Holyrood House 24.7.1756, +Hamilton Palace 2.8.1799; m.London 5.4.1778 (div 1794) Elizabeth Anne Burrell (*20.4.1757 +17.1.1837), dau.of Peter Burrell of Beckenham
Alexander Douglas-Hamilton, Marquess of Douglas and Clydesdale, *31.3.1978
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Scribes recorded names as they sounded and it was not unlikely that a person would be born with one spelling, married with another, and buried with another.
11th GENERATION James Hamilton 2nd Marquess of Hamilton (1589 - 1625) married Anne Cunningham Children: James Hamilton 3rd Marquess of Hamilton and 1st Duke of Hamilton (1606 - 1649) William Hamilton 2nd Duke of Hamilton and Earl of Lanark (1606 - 1649) no offspring.
Children: James Douglas Hamilton 4th Duke of Hamilton and Duke of Brandon (1658 - 1712)
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 Douglas, Archibald, 5th earl of Douglas to dryads. Alphabetic Index to Entries. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Douglas, Archibald, 5th earl of Douglas to dryads.
Douglas, James, 2d earl of Douglas and Mar
Douglas, William, 1st earl of Douglas and Mar
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 AllRefer.com - Hamilton, James Douglas, 4th duke of (British And Irish History, Biography) - Encyclopedia
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Hamilton, James Douglas, 4th duke of, British And Irish History, Biographies
Hamilton, James Douglas, 4th duke of 1658–1712, Scottish nobleman.
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 Bribery Versus Realpolitik in Understanding the Union of 1707   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Duke James of Queensberry claimed of Darien, perhaps quite rightly, that
A more startling case is that of James Douglas, the 4th Duke of Hamilton.
Hamilton was a popular speaker against union, and the ³nominal² leader of the opposition Country party.
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