William Hamilton

William was born on August 6th, 1685.

• Birth Notes
  • 7th son of William Hamilton, 3rd of Wishaw

He died at the age of 68 on January 15th, 1754.

• Death Notes
  • lived in London. James Bruce of Kinnaird lived with him from the age of 8 until starting at Harrow 4 years later.
    
    From "The Scots peerage : founded on Wood's ed. of Sir Robert Douglas's Peerage of Scotland; containing an historical and genealogical account of the nobility of that kingdom (1904-1914)"
    
    "William, born 6 August 1685, bred to the law of Scot-
    land, went to London soon after the Union, was
    called to the English Bar, and became a Bencher of
    Lincoln's Inn. Horace Walpole wrote of him that
    
    VOL. II. D
    
    
    
    50 HAMILTON, LORD BELHAVEN
    
    he was 4 the first Scot who ever pleaded at the
    English Bar, and, as it was said of him, should have
    been the last.' He died 15 January 1754. He
    married Helen, daughter of David Hay of Wood-
    cockdale, in the county of Linlithgow, sister of David
    Bruce of Kinnaird, and had issue :
    
    (1) Robert Hamilton, born 1724, died 1737.
    
    (2) The Right Hon. William Gerard Hamilton"

Details of William's family with Helen Hay