Charles Hamilton, 5th Earl of Abercorn

Charles Hamilton, 5th Earl of Abercorn (died June 1701) was a Scottish nobleman and peer.

He was the younger son of George Hamilton, 4th Baron Hamilton of Strabane and Elizabeth Fagan. His elder brother Claud Hamilton, 4th Earl of Abercorn, a Jacobite, died in a sea-fight in 1691, having forfeited the Barony of Hamilton of Strabane, in Ireland, through attainder. Charles succeeded him as Earl of Abercorn and obtained a reversal of the attainder on 24 May 1692. He took his seat in the Irish House of Lords on 31 August 1695 and signed the Association in 1697. In the same year, Abercorn was tried for the murder of John Prior of Burford, but was acquitted.^[1]

He married his cousin Catherine Hamilton, daughter of James Hamilton, Lord Paisley,^[1] They had one daughter:

• Lady Elizabeth Hamilton, died young, buried in St. Michan's Church, Dublin 22 February 1699.

He died in Strabane in June 1701, and was succeeded by his cousin, James Hamilton, 6th Earl of Abercorn. His widow died on 24 May 1723 in Pall Mall, London, and was buried in the Richmond vault of the Henry VII Chapel at Westminster Abbey.^[1]

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References

• Cokayne, George E. (1910). Gibbs, Vicary, ed. The complete peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, extant, extinct, or dormant. I, Ab-Adam to Basing. London: St. Catherine Press.
• Cokayne, George E. (1998). Hammond, Peter W., ed. The complete peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, extant, extinct, or dormant. XIV, Addenda and Corrigenda. London: St. Catherine Press. p. 2.