Richard Hamilton, 4th Viscount Boyne (24 March 1724 – 30 July 1789) was an Irish

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 peer and politician.

He was the younger son of Hon. Gustavus Hamilton

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, second of Gustavus Hamilton, 1st Viscount Boyne

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, and his wife Hon. Dorothea Bellew, daughter of Richard Bellew, 3rd Baron Bellew of Duleek. His uncles were Frederick Hamilton

Frederick Hamilton (Donegal politician)

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 and Henry Hamilton

Henry Hamilton (politician)

Henry Hamilton , styled The Honourable from 1715, was an Irish politician.He was the youngest son of Gustavus Hamilton, 1st Viscount Boyne and his wife Elizabeth Brooke, daughter of Sir Henry Brooke. In 1725, he entered the Irish House of Commons for St Johnstown , a seat he held until 1727...

. In 1772, he succeeded his older brother Frederick as viscount. He entered the Irish House of Commons

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 in 1755 and sat as Member of Parliament

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 (MP) for Navan

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 until 1761. He was High Sheriff of Meath

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 in 1766.

Hamilton married Georgiana Bury, second daughter of William Bury and his wife Hon. Jane Moore, daughter of John Moore, 1st Baron Moore. They had seventeen children, seven sons and ten daughters. Hamilton died aged 65 and was succeeded in the viscountcy by his oldest son Gustavus.

They had:

Gustavus (1749-1816) married Martha Somerville in 1773

Charles (1750-1794) married Unknown Lister in 1785

Jane (7-sep-1751-?)

John (1-aug-1752-?)

Dorothy (22-feb-1753-?)

Catherine (28-aug-1754-1795) married Hugh Montgomery Lyons on 2-feb-1773

Elizabeth (1755-?)

Georgiana (16-oct-1756-?)

Richard (27-jan-1758-?)

Mary-Anne (1-may-1760-?)

Mary (1762-?)

William (1763-1779)

Richard (1764-?)

Barbara (1766-?)

Sophia (1769-?) married Henry Henzell and William John Lowe

Anne (1771-1828) married Thomas Craven

Richard (1774-?)