Nisha Rathode (Editor)

James Hamilton, 7th Duke of Hamilton

Updated on
Edit
Like
Comment
Share on FacebookTweet on TwitterShare on LinkedInShare on Reddit
Name
  
James 7th

Died
  
July 7, 1769

Education
  
Eton College


Parents
  
James Hamilton, 6th Duke of Hamilton

Grandparents
  
James Hamilton, 5th Duke of Hamilton

Great-grandparents
  
James Hamilton, 4th Duke of Hamilton

People also search for
  
James Hamilton, 6th Duke of Hamilton

James George Hamilton, 7th Duke of Hamilton and 4th Duke of Brandon (18 February 1755 – 7 July 1769) was a short-lived Scottish peer.

Hamilton was born at Holyrood Palace, the son of the 6th Duke of Hamilton and his wife, Elizabeth. Styled as Marquess of Clydesdale from his birth until his father's death, he succeeded to his father's title of Duke of Hamilton in 1758 at the age of two. Upon the death of his distant cousin the Duke of Douglas in 1761, he also inherited the title of Marquess of Douglas. He was educated at Eton from 1763 to 1767 and died in 1769, aged 14 at Hamilton Palace from a fever. He was interred in the family mausoleum at Hamilton, Scotland, his titles passed to his younger brother.

References

James Hamilton, 7th Duke of Hamilton Wikipedia