Gustavus Hamilton (politician)

Gustavus Hamilton
Born	c. 1685
Died	26 February 1735
Spouse(s)	Dorothea Bellew
Issue Detail	Frederick, Richard, & other
Father	Gustavus Hamilton, 1st Viscount Boyne
Mother	Elizabeth Brooke

The Honourable Gustavus Hamilton (c. 1685 – 1735) was an Irish MP.

Birth and origins

Family tree

Gustavus Hamilton with wife, parents, and other selected relatives. Frederick 1590–1647 Soldier Sidney Vaughan James of Manor- hamilton d. 1652 Gustavus 1st Viscount 1642–1723 Elizabeth Brooke d. 1721 Frederick c. 1663 – 1715 d.v.p.* Gustavus c. 1685 – 1735 Dorothea Bellew Gustavus 2nd Viscount 1710–1746 Frederick 3rd Viscount 1710–1746 Richard 4th Viscount 1724–1789 Georgiana Bury Gustavus 5th Viscount 1749–1816 Martha Somerville Legend XXX Subject of the article XXX Viscounts Boyne *d.v.p. = predeceased his father (decessit vita patris)

Gustavus was born about 1685 in Ireland. He was the second son of Gustavus Hamilton and his wife Elizabeth Brooke. His father would be ennobled in 1715 as Baron Hamilton of StackAllan and advanced to Viscount Boyne in 1717.

Gustavus's mother was the eldest daughter of Sir Henry Brooke by his second wife, Anne St George. Brooke was knight of Brookeborough, County Fermanagh, and governor of Donegal Castle. Gustavus had two brothers and one sister, who are listed in his father's article.

Honourable

On 20 October 1715, his father was created Baron Hamilton of Stackallan. As son of a peer Hamilton acquired the style "The Honourable".

First term as MP

In 1716 Hamilton was elected as member of parliament (MP) to one of the two seats for County Donegal during the only Irish parliament of King George I in the by-election that resulted from his brother Frederick's death. That parliament lasted from 12 November 1715 to 11 June 1727 when it was dissolved by the king's death.

Marriage

In January 1717, Hamilton married Dorothea Bellew, only daughter of Richard Bellew, 3rd Baron Bellew of Duleek.

Gustavus and Dorothea had two sons:

1. Frederick succeeded as 3rd Viscount Boyne
2. Richard succeeded as 4th Viscount Boyne

—and five daughters.

Second term as MP and death

Hamilton was reelected to one of the two seats for County Donegal in the general election of 1727, which was held for the only Irish Parliament of King George II, which lasted from 14 November 1727 to 25 October 1760. Hamilton sat until his death on 26 February 1735.

See also

• List of parliaments of Ireland

Notes and references

Sources

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• Cokayne, George Edward (1912). Gibbs, Vicary (ed.). The complete peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, extant, extinct, or dormant. Vol. II (2nd ed.). London: St Catherine Press. OCLC 228661424. – Bass to Canning
• Debrett, John (1828). Peerage of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. Vol. II (17th ed.). London: F. C. and J. Rivington. OCLC 54499602. – Scotland and Ireland
• House of Commons (1878). Return. Members of Parliament – Part II. Parliaments of Great Britain, 1705–1796. Parliaments of the United Kingdom, 1801–1874. Parliaments and Conventions of the Estates of Scotland, 1357–1707. Parliaments of Ireland, 1599–1800. London: His/Her Majesty's Stationery Office. OCLC 13112546. (for MP of County Donegal)
• Lodge, John (1789). Archdall, Mervyn (ed.). The Peerage of Ireland or, A Genealogical History of the Present Nobility of that Kingdom. Vol. V. Dublin: James Moore. OCLC 264906028. – Viscounts (for Boyne)