Career
He was a younger son of James Hamilton, 6th Earl of Abercorn. Hamilton represented Strabane in the Irish House of Commons between 1727 and 1760. He sat also for Truro in the British House of Commons from 1741 to 1747.
He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in March 1747.
He was the creator of Painshill Park. He died at his house on Lansdown Hill, Bath on the 18th September 1786.
