HAMILTON, Alexander (1684-1763), of Innerwick and of Ballencrieff, Linlithgow.

The Hamiltons of Innerwick acquired their lands in the fourteenth century. Alexander Hamilton, whose wardship and marriage were granted to George Baillie in 1692, succeeded his kinsman, Sir Francis Hamilton, 3rd Bt., to the name but not the lands of Innerwick in 1714.G. Hamilton, House of Hamilton, 505. Returned unopposed for the county with the backing of Lord Hopetoun in 1727 and again after a contest in 1734, he voted with the Administration in all recorded divisions. He did not stand in 1741 but was given a place in 1746. He died 28 Dec. 1763.