Career
He was styled Lord Paisley from 1701 until his accession in 1734. James Hamilton, 8th Earl of Abercorn (1712–1789)
Captain Honorary John Hamilton (c 1714–1755)
Honorary
William Hamilton, died young
Reverend Honorary
George Hamilton (11 August 1718 – 26 November 1787), Canon of Windsor, married Elizabeth Onslow (d 1800) and had issue
Honorary Plumer Hamilton, died young
Honorary
William Hamilton (18 February 1721–1744)
Lady Anne Hamilton (12 June 1715 – 14 December 1792), married on 16 August 1746 Sir Henry Mackworth, 6th Baronet
A scientist, he became a Fellow of the Royal Society on 10 November 1715, and published Calculations and Tables on the Attractive Power of Lodestones, a book on magnetism, in 1729. He was sworn a Privy Counsellor in Great Britain on 20 July 1738 and a Privy Counsellor in Ireland on 26 September 1739.
On 17 October of that same year, George II issued a royal charter to the nation"s first orphanage for abandoned children, the Foundling Hospital, of which Hamilton was a founding Governor.