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Paternal Family Tree: Douglas
On 14th February 1723 [his father] James Hamilton 5th Duke Hamilton 2nd Duke Brandon (age 20) and [his mother] Anne Cochrane Duchess Hamilton Duchess Brandon (age 17) were married. She by marriage Duchess Hamilton, Duchess Brandon of Suffolk. She the daughter of [his grandfather] John Cochrane 4th Earl Dundonald. He the son of [his grandfather] James Hamilton Duke Hamilton, 1st Duke Brandon and [his grandmother] Elizabeth Gerard Duchess Brandon (age 43). They were fourth cousin once removed.
On 10th July 1724 James Hamilton 6th Duke Hamilton 3rd Duke Brandon was born to James Hamilton 5th Duke Hamilton 2nd Duke Brandon (age 21) and Anne Cochrane Duchess Hamilton Duchess Brandon (age 18). he was educated at Winchester College, Winchester and St Mary Hall Oriel College, Oxford University.
On 14th August 1724 [his mother] Anne Cochrane Duchess Hamilton Duchess Brandon (age 18) died in childbirth.
Before 3rd November 1729 [his father] James Hamilton 5th Duke Hamilton 2nd Duke Brandon (age 26) and [his step-mother] Elizabeth Strangeways Duchess Hamilton Duchess Brandon (age 39) were married. She by marriage Duchess Hamilton, Duchess Brandon of Suffolk. He the son of [his grandfather] James Hamilton Duke Hamilton, 1st Duke Brandon and [his grandmother] Elizabeth Gerard Duchess Brandon (age 49).
On 21st August 1737 [his father] James Hamilton 5th Duke Hamilton 2nd Duke Brandon (age 34) and [his step-mother] Anne Spencer Duchess Hamilton Duchess Brandon (age 27) were married. She by marriage Duchess Hamilton, Duchess Brandon of Suffolk. He the son of [his grandfather] James Hamilton Duke Hamilton, 1st Duke Brandon and [his grandmother] Elizabeth Gerard Duchess Brandon (age 57).
On 2nd March 1743 [his father] James Hamilton 5th Duke Hamilton 2nd Duke Brandon (age 40) died. His son James (age 18) succeeded 6th Duke Hamilton, 3rd Duke Brandon of Suffolk, 3rd Baron Dutton of Cheshire.
On 14th April 1743 James Hamilton 6th Duke Hamilton 3rd Duke Brandon (age 18) was created Doctor of Civil Law at St Mary Hall Oriel College, Oxford University.
In 1750 Gavin Hamilton (age 27). Portrait of James Hamilton 6th Duke Hamilton 3rd Duke Brandon (age 25).
On 14th February 1752 James Hamilton 6th Duke Hamilton 3rd Duke Brandon (age 27) and Elizabeth Gunning (age 18) met at a Valentine's Ball at Bedford House Covent Garden. They were married that night at Keith's Chapel, Mayfair; the location being one where he didn't require a license. This before the Marriage Act of 1753. Elizabeth Gunning Duchess Hamilton and Argyll by marriage Duchess Hamilton, Duchess Brandon of Suffolk.
Letters of Horace Walpole. 27th February 1752. I write this as a sort of letter of form on the occasion, for there is nothing worth telling you. The event that has made most noise since my last, is the extempore wedding of the [his wife] youngest (age 18) of the two Gunnings, who have made so vehement a noise. Lord Coventry (age 29)295, a grave young lord, of the remains of the patriot breed, has long dangled after the [his sister-in-law] eldest (age 19), virtuously with regard to her virtue, not very honourably with regard to his own credit. About six weeks ago Duke Hamilton (age 27)296, the very reverse of the Earl, hot, debauched, extravagant, and equally damaged in his fortune and person, fell in love with the youngest at the masquerade, and determined to marry her in the spring. About a fortnight since, at an immense assembly at my Lord Chesterfield's, made to show the house, which is really magnificent, Duke Hamilton made violent love at one end of the room, while he was playing at pharaoh at the other end; that is, he saw neither the bank nor his own cards, which were of three hundred pounds each: he soon lost a thousand. I own I was so little a professor in love, that I thought all this parade looked ill for the poor girl; and could not conceive, if he was so much engaged with his mistress as to disregard such sums, why he played at all. However, two nights afterwards, being left alone with her while her mother and sister were at Bedford House, he found himself so impatient, that he sent for a parson. The doctor refused to perform the ceremony without license or ring: the Duke swore he would send for the Archbishop-at last they were married with a ring of the bed-curtain, at half an hour after twelve at night, at Mayfair chapel297, The Scotch are enraged; the women mad that so much beauty has had its effect; and what is most silly, my Lord Coventry declares that he now will marry the other.
Poor Lord Lempster (age 30) has just killed an officer298 in a duel, about a play-debt, and I fear was in the wrong. There is no end of his misfortunes and wrong-headedness!-Where is Mr. Conway!-Adieu!
Note 295. George-William, sixth Earl of Coventry. He died in 1809, at the age of eighty-seven.-E.
Note 296. James, fourth Duke of Hamilton. He died in 1758.-D.
Note 297. On the 14th of February.-E.
Note 298. Captain Gray of the Guards (deceased). The duel was fought, with swords, in Marylebone Fields. Lord Lempster took his trial at the Old Bailey in April, and was found guilty of manslaughter.-E.
On 5th March 1752 George Coventry 6th Earl Coventry (age 29) and [his sister-in-law] Maria Gunning Countess Coventry (age 19) were married. She by marriage Countess Coventry. He the son of William Coventry 5th Earl Coventry.
On 26th January 1753 [his daughter] Elizabeth Hamilton Countess Derby was born to James Hamilton 6th Duke Hamilton 3rd Duke Brandon (age 28) and [his wife] Elizabeth Gunning Duchess Hamilton and Argyll (age 19).
On 18th February 1755 [his son] James Hamilton 7th Duke Hamilton 4th Duke Brandon was born to James Hamilton 6th Duke Hamilton 3rd Duke Brandon (age 30) and [his wife] Elizabeth Gunning Duchess Hamilton and Argyll (age 21) at Holyrood Palace, Holyrood.
On 24th July 1756 [his son] Douglas Hamilton 8th Duke Hamilton 5th Duke Brandon was born to James Hamilton 6th Duke Hamilton 3rd Duke Brandon (age 32) and [his wife] Elizabeth Gunning Duchess Hamilton and Argyll (age 22) at Holyrood Palace, Holyrood.
On 17th January 1758 James Hamilton 6th Duke Hamilton 3rd Duke Brandon (age 33) died. His son [his son] James (age 2) succeeded 7th Duke Hamilton, 4th Duke Brandon of Suffolk, 4th Baron Dutton of Cheshire.
On 3rd January 1759 John Campbell 5th Duke Argyll (age 35) and [his former wife] Elizabeth Gunning Duchess Hamilton and Argyll (age 25) were married. He the son of John Campbell 4th Duke Argyll (age 66) and Mary Drummond Bellenden.
On 20th December 1790 [his former wife] Elizabeth Gunning Duchess Hamilton and Argyll (age 57) died in Argyll House 211 King's Road King's Road. Her son [his son] Douglas (age 34) succeeded 2nd Baron Hamilton of Hameldon in Leicestershire. [his daughter-in-law] Elizabeth Anne Burrell Duchess Hamilton Duchess Brandon (age 33) by marriage Baroness Hamilton of Hameldon in Leicestershire.
Kings Wessex: Great x 20 Grand Son of King Edmund "Ironside" I of England
Kings Gwynedd: Great x 17 Grand Son of Owain "Great" King Gwynedd
Kings Seisyllwg: Great x 23 Grand Son of Hywel "Dda aka Good" King Seisyllwg King Deheubarth
Kings Powys: Great x 18 Grand Son of Maredudd ap Bleddyn King Powys
Kings England: Great x 11 Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Kings Scotland: Great x 19 Grand Son of King Duncan I of Scotland
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Kings France: Great x 13 Grand Son of Philip IV King France
Kings Duke Aquitaine: Great x 25 Grand Son of Ranulf I Duke Aquitaine
Great x 4 Grandfather: William Douglas 9th Earl Angus 11 x Great Grand Son of King John of England
Great x 3 Grandfather: William Douglas 10th Earl Angus 7 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Egidia Graham Countess of Angus 6 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 2 Grandfather: William Douglas 1st Marquess Douglas 8 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Laurence Oliphant 4th Lord Oliphant 11 x Great Grand Son of King John of England
Great x 3 Grandmother: Elizabeth Oliphant Countess Angus 7 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Margaret Hay Lady Oliphant 6 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 1 Grandfather: William Hamilton 1st Duke Hamilton 8 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: George Gordon 5th Earl Huntley 6 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 3 Grandfather: George Gordon 1st Marquess Huntly 7 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Anne Hamilton Countess Huntley 6 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 2 Grandmother: Mary Gordon Marchioness Douglas 7 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Esme Stewart 1st Duke Lennox 5 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 3 Grandmother: Henrietta Stewart Marchioness Huntly 6 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Catherine Balsac Duchess Lennox
GrandFather: James Hamilton Duke Hamilton, 1st Duke Brandon 9 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: John Hamilton 1st Marquess Hamilton 6 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 3 Grandfather: James Hamilton 2nd Marquess Hamilton 7 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Margaret Lyon Marchioness Hamilton 6 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 2 Grandfather: James Hamilton 1st Duke Hamilton 8 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: James Cunningham 7th Earl Glencairn
Great x 3 Grandmother: Ann Cunningham Marchioness Hamilton
Great x 1 Grandmother: Anne Hamilton 3rd Duchess Hamilton 9 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Basil Feilding of Newnham Paddock in Monk's Kirby in Warwickshire
Great x 3 Grandfather: William Feilding 1st Earl Denbigh
Great x 4 Grandmother: Elizabeth Aston
Great x 2 Grandmother: Margaret aka Mary Feilding 9 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: George Villiers of Brokesby
Great x 3 Grandmother: Susan Villiers Countess Denbigh 8 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Mary Beaumont 1st Countess Buckingham 7 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Father: James Hamilton 5th Duke Hamilton 2nd Duke Brandon 10 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Gilbert Gerard 2nd Baron Gerard
Great x 3 Grandfather: Dutton Gerard 3rd Baron Gerard
Great x 4 Grandmother: Eleanor Dutton
Great x 2 Grandfather: Charles Gerard 4th Baron Gerard 8 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Francis Fane 1st Earl of Westmoreland 6 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 3 Grandmother: Mary Fane Baroness Gerard 7 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Mary Mildmay Countess of Westmoreland 10 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward I of England
Great x 1 Grandfather: Digby Gerard 5th Baron Gerard 9 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Everard Digby
Great x 3 Grandfather: George Digby
Great x 2 Grandmother: Jane Digby Baroness Gerard 14 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward I of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Walter Chetwynd 12 x Great Grand Son of King Edward I of England
Great x 3 Grandmother: Mary Chetwynd 13 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward I of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Mary Mullins
GrandMother: Elizabeth Gerard Duchess Brandon 10 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Ratcliff Gerard
Great x 3 Grandfather: Charles Gerard
Great x 2 Grandfather: Charles Gerard 1st Earl Macclesfield 10 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Edward Fitton 1st Baronet 8 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 3 Grandmother: Penelope Fitton 9 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandmother: Anne Barratt
Great x 1 Grandmother: Elizabeth Gerard Baroness Gerard 11 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 3 Grandfather: Pierre de Civelle
Great x 2 Grandmother: Jeanne de Civelle Countess Macclesfield
James Hamilton 6th Duke Hamilton 3rd Duke Brandon 11 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 3 Grandfather: William Cochrane 1st Earl Dundonald
Great x 2 Grandfather: William Cochrane
Great x 1 Grandfather: John Cochrane 2nd Earl Dundonald 10 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Hew Kennedy 7 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 3 Grandfather: John Kennedy 6th Earl Cassilis 8 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Great x 2 Grandmother: Catherine Kennedy 9 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England
Great x 4 Grandfather: Thomas Hamilton 1st Earl Haddington
Great x 3 Grandmother: Jean Hamilton Countess Cassilis
GrandFather: John Cochrane 4th Earl Dundonald 11 x Great Grand Son of King Edward III of England
Mother: Anne Cochrane Duchess Hamilton Duchess Brandon 12 x Great Grand Daughter of King Edward III of England