Henry Hamilton (Irish politician)

Henry Hamilton (1692–1743) was an Irish politician who sat in two Irish parliaments.

Birth and origins[]

Henry was born in February 1692,^[1] the third and youngest son of Gustavus Hamilton and his wife Elizabeth Brooke. His father would become the 1st Viscount Boyne. His mother was a daughter of .

Honours and first parliament[]

On 20 October 1715, his father was created Baron Hamilton of Stackallan.^[6] As son of a peer he acquired the style The Honouble. In the Irish election of 1715 the Honourable Henry Hamilton was elected as one of the two members of parliament (MPs) for St Johnstown Borough in the House of Commons of the only Irish Parliament of King George I.^[7] He held that seat during the entire duration of the parliament from 12 November 1715 to 11 June 1727 when the parliament was dissolved by the death of the king.

Marriage and children[]

On 27 October 1722, the Honourable Henry Hamilton married Mary Dawson, eldest daughter of Joshua Dawson.^[1][8]

Henry and Mary had seven children, two daughters and five sons.^[9] His third son Sackville was under-secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland,^[10] while his fourth son Henry was governor of Bermuda and Dominica.^[11]

Second parliament, death, and timeline[]

The Honourable Henry Hamilton did not contest the Irish election of 1727, which was held for the only Irish Parliament of King George II, which lasted from 14 November 1727 to 25 October 1760. However, in 1730 he contested and won the by-election for one of the two seats for Donegal County that was caused by the death of Alexander Montgomery on 19 December 1729.^[12] He sat for this county until his death in 1743 when he was replaced by .^[13] His father and his two older brothers Frederick and Gustavus had also represented County Donegal in the House of Commons.

He was Collector of the Port of Cork.^[1] Henry died on 3 June 1743.

Notes, citations, and sources[]

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Sources[]

• Arthur, Elizabeth (1976). "Hamilton, Henry". In Halpenny, Francess G. (ed.). Dictionary of Canadian Biography. 4. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. pp. 321–325. ISBN 978-0-8020-3320-8. – 1771 to 1800
• Burke, Bernard; Burke, Ashworth P. (1909). A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Peerage and Baronetage, the Privy Council, Knightage and Companionage (71st ed.). London: Harrison. OCLC 28297274.
• Burke, Bernard (1949). A Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Peerage and Baronetage of the British Empire (99th ed.). London: Burke's Peerage Ltd.
• Cokayne, George Edward (1910). Gibbs, Vicary (ed.). The complete peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, extant, extinct, or dormant. 1 (2nd ed.). London: St Catherine Press. – Ab-Adam to Basing (for Abercorn)
• Cokayne, George Edward (1912). Gibbs, Vicary (ed.). The complete peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, extant, extinct, or dormant. 2 (2nd ed.). London: St Catherine Press. OCLC 228661424. – Bass to Canning (for Boyne)
• Fryde, E. B.; Greenway, D. E.; Porter, S.; Roy, I., eds. (1986). Handbook of British Chronology. Royal Historical Society Guides and Handbooks, No. 2 (3rd ed.). London: Offices of the Royal Historical Society. ISBN 0-86193-106-8. (for timeline)
• Granville, Mary (1862). The Autobiography and Correspondence of Mary Granville. 1. London: Richard Bentley.
• Haydn, Joseph (1851). The Book of Dignities; Rolls of the Official Personages of the British Empire. London: Longman, Brown, Green and Longmans. OCLC 457727333.
• House of Commons (1878). Return. Members of Parliament – Part II. Parliaments of Great Britain, 1705–1796. Parliaments of the United Kingdom, 1801–1874. Parliaments and Conventions of the Estates of Scotland, 1357–1707. Parliaments of Ireland, 1599–1800. London: H. M. Stationery Office. OCLC 13112546.
• Lodge, John (1789). Archdall, Mervyn (ed.). The Peerage of Ireland or, A Genealogical History of the Present Nobility of that Kingdom. 5. Dublin: James Moore. OCLC 264906028. – Viscounts

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