Hans Hamilton, 2nd Baron HolmPatrick

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Hans Wellesley Hamilton, 2nd Baron HolmPatrick DSO MC DL (8 August 1886 – 5 September 1942) was an Anglo-Irish soldier and peer.[1]

Hamilton was the only son of Ion Hamilton, who was raised to the peerage in 1897 as Baron HolmPatrick. His father, grandfather James Hans Hamilton and great-grandfather Hans Hamilton all served as Members of Parliament for County Dublin. His mother, Lady Victoria Alexandrina Wellesley, was the daughter of Major-General Lord Charles Wellesley, granddaughter of the Duke of Wellington, and goddaughter of Queen Victoria.[1][2]

He attended Eton College followed by the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst.[3] He inherited the barony in 1898 after his father's death.[1] In 1906, he was commissioned in the 16th Lancers, and was adjutant from 1912 to 1914. He was wounded in the First World War, during which he was promoted to captain and was a brigade-major and formerly captain in the Lancers.[3] He was mentioned in dispatches three times, and awarded the Military Cross in the 1915 Birthday Honours.[4] awarded the Distinguished Service Order in the 1919 New Year Honours.[5] He later served as Deputy Lieutenant for County Dublin and was provincial commissioner for the Province of Leinster Boy Scouts.[1][3]

On 27 October 1925, he married Lady Edina Dorothy Hope Ainsworth (née Conyngham), fourth daughter of , three months after her divorce from her first husband, .[6] HolmPatrick died in 1942 at the family seat at Abbotstown, Castleknock. He was survived by one daughter and one son, , who succeeded as the third baron.[1] Lady HolmPatrick died in 1964.[7]

Coat of arms of Hans Hamilton, 2nd Baron HolmPatrick
Baron HolmPatrick.png
Crest
A demiantelope argent, hoofed and armed or, holding a heart gules, and charged on the shoulder with a mullet of the last.
Escutcheon
Gules, Three cinquefoils ermine, a mullet's argent for difference; on a chief or a heart of gules. a heart gules.
Supporters
An antelope argent gorged with a collar flory counterflory or, pendent therefrom an escutcheon ermine charged with a heart gules; sinister, a lion gules gorged with acollar flory counterflory or, pendent therefrom an escutcheonermine, charged with a heart of the first.
Motto
Latin: (Qualis Ab Incepto) The same as from the beginning.[3]

References[]

  1. ^ a b c d e "Obituary: Lord HolmPatrick". The Times. 7 September 1942. p. 6.
  2. ^ "Dowager Lady Holm Patrick". The Times. 1 August 1933. p. 14.
  3. ^ a b c d (Hesilrige 1921, p. 481)
  4. ^ "No. 29202". The London Gazette (Supplement). 22 June 1915. p. 6119.
  5. ^ "No. 13375". The Edinburgh Gazette. 2 January 1919. p. 19.
  6. ^ "Marriages". The Times. 28 October 1925. p. 17.
  7. ^ "Obituary: Edina Lady HolmPatrick". The Times. 15 April 1964. p. 14.

Book cited[]


Peerage of the United Kingdom
Preceded by Baron HolmPatrick
1898–1942 		Succeeded by


Stub icon

This biography of a baron in the peerage of the United Kingdom is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by .

  • v
  • t
Retrieved from ""