Malcolm Hamilton was a Scotsman who became the Church of Ireland

Church of Ireland

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 Archbishop of Cashel

Archbishop of Cashel

The Archbishop of Cashel is an archiepiscopal title which takes its name after the town of Cashel, County Tipperary in Ireland. The title is still in use in the Roman Catholic Church, but in the Church of Ireland it was downgraded to a bishopric in 1838....

 from 1623 to 1629.

He was Rector

Rector

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 of Devenish

Devenish

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, before being appointed Chancellor of Down

Down Cathedral

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 in 1612. He was consecrated archbishop of Cashel at Drogheda

Drogheda

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 by Archbishop Christopher Hampton

Christopher Hampton (archbishop)

Christopher Hampton was an Englishman who became the Church of Ireland Archbishop of Armagh from 1613.-Life:He is called John in the printed Patent Rolls, and was born at Calais in 1552 of English parents. He was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he graduate B.A. 1572, M.A. 1575, B.D....

 of Armagh on 29 June 1623. He died of a fever on 25 April 1629 and buried in the cathedral at the Rock of Cashel

Rock of Cashel

The Rock of Cashel , also known as Cashel of the Kings and St. Patrick's Rock, is a historic site in Ireland's province of Munster, located at Cashel, South Tipperary.-History:...

 in County Tipperary

County Tipperary

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.

He had the Monea Castle

Monea Castle

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 built in his inherited lands in Fermanagh, starting in 1616, completed about 1618, and a bawn

Bawn

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 added in 1622.

Family

One of his sons of first marriage was Hugh Hamilton, 1st Viscount of Glenawly

Hugh Hamilton, 1st Viscount of Glenawly

Hugh Hamilton, 1st Viscount Glenawly , also 1st Baron of Deserf in Sweden, was a soldier in Swedish and English service.He came from a family that descended from the Hamiltons of Dalserf, a cadet branch of the House of Hamilton...

, a soldier in Swedish service, who was created baron of Deserf in Sweden.

Lewis Hamilton was his son of second marriage and he also was in Swedish service and was elevated there to baronial rank. Through him, colonel, governor Gustav Hamilton

Gustav Hamilton

Baron Gustaf or Gustav Ludvigsson Hamilton , known as the governor of Enniskillen in Northern Ireland, was colonel, and de jure 3rd friherre of Deserf in peerage of Sweden.-Biography:...

(1650s-1591) was Malcolm's grandson.

Captain John Hamilton of Monea was Malcolm's younger son of first marriage. His sons, Malcolm and Hugo, went to Swedish service in 1655 and were in 1689 created barons in peerage of Sweden.