HAMILTON, Sir James (d. 1665), of Orbiston, Lanarkshire.

Family and Education

b. aft. 1634, 1st s. of Sir John Hamilton of Orbiston and Bethia, da. of Sir John Henderson of Fordell.Young, Parliaments of Scot. i. 323; G. Hamilton, Hist. of the House of Hamilton (Edinburgh, 1933), 645-6. m. (1) bef. 1654, Joanna (or Jean), da. of Ludovick Houston of that ilk, 3s. (1 d.v.p.) 3da. (1 d.v.p.); (2) c.1662, Margaret Stewart, da. of Sir Archibald Stewart of Blairhall, wid. of David Bosewell of Auchinleck, s.p.House of Hamilton, 647; Regs. Gt. Seal Scot. 1660-8, p. 284-6. Kntd. bef. Feb. 1652. suc. fa. bef. 1664. d. May 1665.Young, Parliaments of Scot. i. 323; Commissariot Recs. of Glasgow ed. F.J. Grant (Edinburgh, 1901), 215; NRS, CC9/7/31, unfol.

Offices Held

Civic: burgess, Glasgow 30 Sept. 1644, re-adm. 3 May 1656.Burgesses of Glasgow ed. J.R. Anderson (Edinburgh, 1925), 115, 148.

Scottish: dep. Dunbartonshire, tender of union, 1652. 31 Dec. 1655Cromwellian Union ed. Terry, 53, 118; House of Hamilton, 646. Commr. assessment, Dunbartonshire, Lanarkshire, Renfrewshire, 26 June 1657, 26 Jan. 1660. 1656 – ?Acts Parl. Scot. vi, pt 2, 839–41; A. and O. J.p. Dunbartonshire; Lanarkshire 1656, 1663 – ?; Ayrshire 1663–?Worcester Coll. Oxf. Clarke MS XLIII, f. 81v; NRS, JC26/26, unfol.; Scot. and Protectorate ed. Firth, 311, 313; House of Hamilton, 646. Sheriff, Lanarkshire 1656–7; Dunbartonshire 1662, 1664.Scot. and Protectorate ed. Firth, 316; House of Hamilton, 646. Commr. Dunbartonshire, Edinburgh Convention, Jan. 1660;NLS, MS 20775, ff. 72, 74. excise, Lanarkshire 1661.House of Hamilton, 646.

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Volume

Commons 1640-1660

Web Title

HAMILTON, Sir James (d. 1665), of Orbiston, Lanarkshire.

Will

15 May 1664, pr. 19 June 1665.NRS, CC9/7/31, unfol.

Estates

in March 1664 owned baronies of Erskine (Renfrewshire), Dunnotar and Kirkpatrick (Dunbartonshire); also lands in Inchinnan (Renfrewshire) and Paisley regality (Dunbartonshire); ferries between Dumbarton and Kirkpatrick burghs, and salmon fisheries of the River Clyde; Erskine vicarage and lands, teinds and vicarages of Easter Kirkpatrick, Morrisland and Dunterchinnan.Regs. Gt. Seal Scot. 1660-8, pp. 284-6.

Oxford 1644

Addresses

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