John Hamilton, 4th Earl of Haddington

John Hamilton, 4th Earl of Haddington (1626 - 31 August 1669) was a Scottish nobleman.

Life[]

Haddington was born in 1626, second son of Thomas Hamilton, 2nd Earl of Haddington and Lady Catherine Erskine, a daughter of John Erskine, Earl of Mar.

Lord Haddington was a minor in 1645, when he succeeded his brother Thomas who had died from consumption in that year. Owing to lameness, Haddington did not participate in the military, but was a conscientious attender of Parliament. Haddington attended the coronation of Charles II at Scone Abbey in 1651, and was later fined the sum of £555 11s 8d under Cromwell's Act of Grace.^[1]

Haddington died on 31 August 1669 at Tyninghame House, East Lothian.

Marriage and issue[]

In 1648, Lord Haddington wed Lady Christian Lindsay (d.1704), daughter to the Lord Treasurer of Scotland, John Lindsay, 17th Earl of Crawford, and had issue:

• Charles Hamilton, 5th Earl of Haddington
• Hon. Thomas Hamilton, died in infancy
• Hon. John Hamilton, died in infancy
• Hon. William Hamilton, died in infancy
• Lady Margaret Hamilton, married John Hope of Hopetoun, and had issue: Charles Hope, 1st Earl of Hopetoun
• Lady Catherine Hamilton, died in infancy
• Lady Anna Hamilton, died in infancy
• Lady Helen Hamilton, married William Anstruther
• Lady Susanna Hamilton, married Adam Cockburn, Lord Ormiston
• Lady Christian Hamilton, died in infancy
• Lady Elizabeth Hamilton, died in infancy
• Lady Mary Hamilton

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Sources[]

• [1] Anderson, J., Historical and genealogical memoirs of the House of Hamilton; with genealogical memoirs of the several branches of the family, Edinburgh 1825.
• [2] Balfour Paul, Sir J., Scots Peerage IX vols. Edinburgh 1904.