Background
Hamilton was the youngest son of William Douglas-Hamilton, Duke of Hamilton and Anne Hamilton, 3rd Duchess of Hamilton.
Hamilton was the youngest son of William Douglas-Hamilton, Duke of Hamilton and Anne Hamilton, 3rd Duchess of Hamilton.
He became a Captain in the Royal Navy on 11 September 1693 and by the end of 1694 was appointed to a new 48 gun vessel, the Litchfield at Portsmouth. In 1695 he was active in the English Channel pursuing French privateers, including the Tyger out of Street Malo, an encounter commemorated in a painting by Willem van de Velde the Younger. In 1708, he was elected as Member of Parliament for Lanarkshire.
Hamilton held the seat until 1710, then served as Governor of Jamaica from 1711-1716.
He played a controversial role in setting up some of the founders of the infamous Bahamanian pirate gang, including Henry Jennings, for which he was arrested and brought back to England by the Royal Navy. He was ultimately released and, later, was re-elected for Lanarkshire, then for Queenborough in 1735 and Dartmouth in 1742.
Hamilton was also a Lord of the Admiralty from 1729-1738 and Governor of Greenwich Hospital from 1746 until his death. His full title was Lord Archibald Hamilton of Riccarton and Pardovan.
Foreign much of his life, he lived at Park Place at Remenham in Berkshire.
She died in 1709 and Hamilton then married Anne, Lady Hamilton (widow of Sir Francis Hamilton, 3rd Baronet). Charles (?-1751) Married Mary Dufresne. Elizabeth (1720 – 1800), married Francis Greville, 1st Earl of Warwick (10 October 1719 6 July 1773)
Frederic (1728-1811), religious minister.
Married 11 June 1757 Rachel Daniel.
Archibald (accidentally drowned, 1744)
William Hamilton (1730-1803), diplomat. Married 25 January 1758 Catherine Barlow (died 1783).
Married 6 September 1795 Emma Hart (died 1815). Jane (19 August 1726 – 13 November 1771), married 24 July 1753 Charles Schaw later Charles Cathcart, 9th Lord Cathcart.
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9th Parliament of Great Britain. 5th Parliament of Great Britain.