James Edward Hamilton, 4th Duke of Abercorn was a British peer.
Background
He was the son of James Hamilton, 3rd Duke of Abercorn and Lady Rosalind Cecilia Caroline Bingham. He was variously styled Viscount Strabane (1904–1913), Marquess of Hamilton (1913–1953), and finally inherited his father"s peerages on 12 September 1953.
Education
Lord Hamilton (as he then was) attended Eton.
Career
He was commissioned into the Grenadier Guards, where he rose to the rank of captain. In 1946, he was elected to the County Council of County Tyrone, served as High Sheriff of Tyrone, and then served in the Senate of Northern Ireland. He became Lord Lieutenant of County Tyrone on his father"s death, a position he held for the remainder of his life.
He was appointed honorary colonel of the 5th Battalion, Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers (a Territorial Army unit), and died at the age of seventy-five.
Lady Moyra Kathleen Hamilton Commander of the Royal Victorian Order (b 1930), who married Commander Peter Colin Drummond Campbell in 1966.
They have two sons and live in Northern Ireland. Lady Moyra was one of Queen Elizabeth II’s Maids of Honour at the 1953 Coronation.
She went on to serve as a lady-in-waiting to Princess Alexandra from 1954 to 1964 and to the Queen from 1964 until 1966, then as an extra lady-in-waiting until 1969.
She was made a Commander of the Royal Victorian Order in 1963. James Hamilton, 5th Duke of Abercorn (b 1934)
Lord Claud Anthony Hamilton (b 1939), who was appointed Deputy Lieutenant of County Fermanagh in 1978. He was High Sheriff of Fermanagh in 1990 and was made a Justice of the Peace for the county in 1991.
Alexander James Hamilton (b 1987).