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Douglas Hamilton, 8th Duke of Hamilton, 5th Duke of Brandon and 2nd Baron Hamilton of Hameldon, KT (24 July 1756 – 2 August 1799) was a Scottish peer, nobleman, and politician. Life [ edit ] Hamilton was born at the Palace of Holyroodhouse , the son of the 6th Duke of Hamilton and his wife, Elizabeth Gunning .
Douglas Hamilton 1756–1799 8th Duke of Hamilton, Marquess of Clydesdale, Earl of Arran and Cambridge, and Lord Aven and Innerdale, 5th Duke of Brandon, Marquess of Douglas, Earl of Angus, Lord Abernethy and Jedburgh Forest, and Baron Dutton, 7th Earl of Lanark and Lord Machansyre and Polmont, 2nd Baron Hamilton: Alexander Hamilton ...
In 1937, he married the Lady Elizabeth Ivy Percy, daughter of Alan Percy, 8th Duke of Northumberland, and had five sons: Angus Alan Douglas Douglas-Hamilton, 15th Duke of Hamilton (born 13 September 1938, died 5 June 2010); married three times, with issue from the first
Douglas-Hamilton family, Dukes of Hamilton and Brandon. This page summarises records created by this Family. The summary includes a brief description of the collection (s) (usually...
Lord Douglas 8th Duke of Hamilton and 5th Duke of Brandon Hamilton KT (24 Jul 1756 - 2 Aug 1799)
Career. The son of the 14th Duke of Hamilton and Lady Elizabeth Percy, daughter of the 8th Duke of Northumberland, he was educated at Eton College and Balliol College, Oxford (as was his father before him). One of his younger brothers was the Scottish Conservative and Unionist politician James Douglas-Hamilton, Baron Selkirk of Douglas .
A dispute concerning the estate of the late Duke of Douglas led to the Douglas Cause . Hamilton was educated at Eton from 1763 to 1767. However, he died in 1769, aged 14, at Hamilton Palace from a fever. He was interred in the family mausoleum at Hamilton, Scotland, and his titles passed to his younger brother, Douglas Hamilton. [1]
