James Hamilton, 5th Duke of Hamilton and 2nd Duke of Brandon KT

Order of the Thistle

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 (5 January 1703 – 2 March 1743) was a Scottish

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 peer

Peerage of Scotland

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, the son of the 4th Duke of Hamilton

James Douglas, 4th Duke of Hamilton

Lieutenant General Sir James Hamilton, 4th Duke of Hamilton and 1st Duke of Brandon KG KT was aScottish nobleman, the Premier Peer of Scotland and Keeper of the Palace of Holyroodhouse...

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Hamilton attended Winchester College

Winchester College

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 from 1716 to 1717 and graduated from Christ Church, Oxford

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 on 6 June 1719. He succeeded to his father's title of Duke of Hamilton

Duke of Hamilton

Duke of Hamilton is a title in the Peerage of Scotland, created in 1643. It is the senior dukedom in that Peerage , and as such its holder is the Premier Peer of Scotland, as well as being head of both the House of Hamilton and the House of Douglas...

 in 1712. At the foundation of the noted charity, the Foundling Hospital

Foundling Hospital

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 in London

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, Hamilton was one of the charity's first governors and his name is listed on the organisation's royal charter

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, granted in October 1739.

On 14 February 1723 (St. Valentine's Day), Hamilton married Lady Anne Cochrane, a daughter of the 4th Earl of Dundonald and they had one child, James

James Hamilton, 6th Duke of Hamilton

James Douglas-Hamilton, 6th Duke of Hamilton and 3rd Duke of Brandon, KT was a Scottish peer.-Early years and Education:...

 (1724–1758), later 6th Duke of Hamilton. Anne died from the effects of her first and only childbirth a month later and Hamilton married Elizabeth Strangways (an aunt of the future Countess of Ilchester), but she died childless on 3 November 1729. He then married Anne Spencer (an aunt of the future Countess of Galloway) on 21 August 1737 and they had three children:

• Lady Anne Hamilton (1738 – 11 November 1780)
• Archibald Hamilton, 9th Duke of Hamilton
  Archibald Hamilton, 9th Duke of Hamilton
  Archibald Douglas-Hamilton, 9th Duke of Hamilton and 6th Duke of Brandon was a Scottish peer and politician.Hamilton was the eldest son of the 5th Duke of Hamilton and his third wife, Anne, and was educated at Eton...
  
   (15 July 1740 – 16 February 1819)
• Lord Spencer Hamilton (1742 – 20 March 1791)

Hamilton died in 1743, aged 40 at Bath from jaundice

Jaundice

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 and palsy

Palsy

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. His widow married Richard Savage Nassau

Richard Savage Nassau

The Hon. Richard Savage Nassau was a British Member of Parliament.He was born at St Osyth Priory, the second son of Frederick Nassau de Zuylestein, 3rd Earl of Rochford, by his wife Bessy, an illegitimate daughter of Richard Savage, 4th Earl Rivers.He was first elected to Parliament at the 1747...

 and had three more children.