Baron Hamilton of Hameldon, of Hambledon in the County of Leicester, is a title in the

Peerage of Great Britain The Peerage of Great Britain comprises all extant peerages created in the Kingdom of Great Britain between the Acts of Union 1707 and the Acts of Union 1800. It replaced the Peerage of England and the Peerage of Scotland, but was itself r ...

, held by the

Duke of Hamilton Duke of Hamilton is a title in the Peerage of Scotland, created in April 1643. It is the senior dukedom in that peerage (except for the Dukedom of Rothesay held by the Sovereign's eldest son), and as such its holder is the premier peer of Sco ...

from 1790 to 1799 and by the

Duke of Argyll Duke of Argyll ( gd, Diùc Earraghàidheil) is a title created in the peerage of Scotland in 1701 and in the peerage of the United Kingdom in 1892. The earls, marquesses, and dukes of Argyll were for several centuries among the most powerful ...

since 1799. It was created in 1776 for Elizabeth Gunning (Duchess of Hamilton), wife since 1752 of James Douglas-Hamilton, 6th Duke of Hamilton. The

died in 1758, and his widow remarried the following year, to John Campbell, who later became Marquess of Lorne in 1761 and 5th

in 1770. She died in 1790, and her Barony passed to her only surviving son from her first marriage, the 8th

. On his death without male issue, the barony passed to his half-brother the Marquess of Lorne, the Duchess's eldest surviving son by her second marriage. Lord Lorne succeeded his father as 6th Duke of Argyll in 1806, and the Barony of Hamilton has since remained united with that title. The arms of Elizabeth Gunning, Baroness Hamilton of Hameldon, were her paternal arms of Gunning augmented with a fess ermine and ducal crowns for the doves: ''Gules, on a fess ermine between three doves argent ducally crowned or as many crosses pattée of the first''.

Barons Hamilton of Hameldon (1776)

Elizabeth Campbell, 1st Baroness Hamilton of Hameldon Elizabeth Campbell, Duchess of Argyll, 1st Baroness Hamilton of Hameldon ( December 1733 – 20 December 1790), earlier Elizabeth Hamilton, Duchess of Hamilton, Gunning, was a celebrated Anglo-Irish beauty, lady-in-waiting to Queen Charlotte, ...

(1733–1790) * Douglas Douglas-Hamilton, 8th Duke of Hamilton, 2nd Baron Hamilton of Hameldon (1756–1799) * George William Campbell, 6th Duke of Argyll, 3rd Baron Hamilton of Hameldon (1768–1839) ''see

for further succession.''

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