James Hamilton, 7th Earl of Abercorn
- James Hamilton, 7th Earl of Abercorn
James Hamilton, 7th Earl of Abercorn FRS PC (March 22 1686 – January 11 1744) was a Scottish and Irish nobleman, the son of James Hamilton, 6th Earl of Abercorn and Elizabeth Reading. He was styled Lord Paisley from 1701 until his accession in 1734.
In April 1711, he married Anne Plumer (1690–1776), by whom he had eight children:
* James Hamilton, 8th Earl of Abercorn (1712–1789)
* Captain Hon. John Hamilton (c. 1714–1755)
* Hon. William Hamilton, died young
* Reverend Hon. George Hamilton (August 11 1718 – November 26 1787), Canon of Windsor, married Elizabeth Onslow (d. 1800) and had issue
* Hon. Plumer Hamilton, died young
* Hon. William Hamilton (February 18 1721 – 1744)
* Lady Anne Hamilton (June 12 1715 – December 14 1792), married on August 16 1746 Sir Henry Mackworth, 6th Baronet
A scientist, he became a Fellow of the Royal Society on November 10 1715, and published "Calculations and Tables on the Attractive Power of Lodestones", a book on magnetism, in 1729.
He was sworn a Privy Counsellor in Great Britain on July 20 1738 and a Privy Counsellor in Ireland on September 26 1739. On October 17 of that same year, George II issued a royal charter to the nation's first orphanage for abandoned children, the Foundling Hospital, of which Hamilton was a founding Governor.
References
* [http://www.thepeerage.com/p11027.htm#i110267 thePeerage.com]
* [http://genealogy.euweb.cz/hamilton/hamilton2.html genealogy.euweb.cz]
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