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23 de fev. de 2021 · William was born on 19 February 1811 at the Hamiltons’ London home in Grosvenor Place. His parents – Alexander, the future 10th Duke of Hamilton and Susan Euphemia, youngest daughter of the famous collector and novelist William Beckford – had married the previous year. His only sibling, Susan, was born in 1814. William was educated at Eton before following in his father’s footsteps and ...
Duke of Hamilton war ein schottisch-britischer Peer, Politiker und Diplomat. For faster navigation, this Iframe is preloading the Wikiwand page for Alexander Hamilton, 10. Duke of Hamilton .
Alexander the 10th Duke of Hamilton displayed his wealth in many ways and none so more than in the form of building himself a chapel and family crypt in his back garden. The mausoleum was so grand, and it covered such a large area that the Duke had to employ someone to look after the mausoleum and its grounds.
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1. 1788-1851: corresp and papers. Collection held privately: enquiries to National Register of Archives for Scotland. NRA (S)2177. NRA 10979 Hamilton. See HMC Papers of British politicians 1782-1900, 1989. 2. 1809: letters from his wife (c69 items) Oxford University: Bodleian Library, Special Collections.
Alexander bought the sarcophagus for at least 600 and later sent it up to Hamilton. He was almost certainly inspired to use it as the receptacle for his own 'porcelain clay' by the coffin in which his hero Napoleon was reburied, in the Invalides in Paris, in 1840 and by the preparations to entomb the Emperor in a magnificent porphyry sarcophagus.
1810 married Susan Euphemia (died 27 May 1859). 2nd daughter and co-heir of William Beckford. Collection dispersed at Hamilton Palace sale at Christie's June 1882
