Title 7th Earl of Abercorn Nationality Scottish and Irish Died January 11, 1744 Grandparents James Hamilton | Tenure 1734-1744 Name James 7th Children John Hamilton | |
Born 22 March 1686 ( 1686-03-22 ) Other titles Viscount StrabaneLord PaisleyBaron Mountcastle Parents James Hamilton, 6th Earl of Abercorn Great-grandparents Sir George Hamilton, 1st Baronet, of Donalong | ||
James Hamilton, 7th Earl of Abercorn FRS PC (22 March 1686 – 11 January 1744) was a Scottish and Irish nobleman, the son of James Hamilton, 6th Earl of Abercorn and Elizabeth Reading. He was styled Lord Paisley from 1701 until his accession in 1734.
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Offspring
In April 1711, he married Anne Plumer (1690–1776), by whom he had seven children:
Scientist
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.
Privy Councils
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.