Charles Hamilton, 5th Earl of Haddington (1650 – May 1685), was a Scottish nobleman.

Life

Known as Lord Binning from birth, he was born in 1650, the only son to survive infancy of

John Hamilton, 4th Earl of Haddington John Hamilton, 4th Earl of Haddington (1626 - 31 August 1669) was a Scottish nobleman. Life Haddington was born in 1626, second son of Thomas Hamilton, 2nd Earl of Haddington and Lady Catherine Erskine, a daughter of John Erskine, Earl of Mar. ...

, and Lady Christian Lindsay. Binning succeeded his father's titles in 1669. He did not involve himself actively in politics, but was broadly supportive of his kinsman the Duke of Hamilton's machinations with

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. He refused to be a signatory to the Scottish

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of 1681 which put him even further from public life. At

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, near

Prestonkirk East Linton is a village and former police burgh in East Lothian, Scotland, situated on the River Tyne and A199 road (former A1 road) five miles east of Haddington, with an estimated population of in . During the 19th century the populatio ...

Haddingtonshire East Lothian (; sco, East Lowden; gd, Lodainn an Ear) is one of the 32 council areas of Scotland, as well as a historic county, registration county and lieutenancy area. The county was called Haddingtonshire until 1921. In 1975, the histo ...

, Charles, fitted up for

Gilbert Rule Gilbert Rule (c. 1629 – 1701) was a nonconformist Church of Scotland minister and the Principal of Edinburgh University from 1690 to 1701. Early life Rule was born about 1629, probably in Edinburgh, where his brother, Archibald, was one o ...

a meeting-house, which was indulged by the privy council on 18 December 1679. Next year, while Rule was visiting his niece, Mrs. Kennedy, in Edinburgh, he baptised her child in St. Giles's Church, after preaching a weekday lecture there, on the invitation of the minister, Archibald Turner, the Episcopal minister. For this offence Rule was brought before the privy council, and imprisoned on the

Bass Rock The Bass Rock, or simply the Bass (), ( gd, Creag nam Bathais or gd, Am Bas) is an island in the outer part of the Firth of Forth in the east of Scotland. Approximately offshore, and north-east of North Berwick, it is a steep-sided volca ...

. Haddington died in May 1685 at

Tyninghame House Tyninghame House is a mansion in East Lothian, Scotland. It is located by the mouth of the River Tyne, east of Tyninghame, and west of Dunbar. There was a manor at Tyninghame in 1094, and it was later a property of the Lauder of The Bass fami ...

, East Lothian.

Marriage and issue

Lord Haddington married Lady Margaret Leslie, daughter of John Leslie, 1st Duke of Rothes. Lady Margaret was heiress to her father's earldom of Rothes, but not his dukedom. In the terms of the marriage contract, to prevent the Rothes title becoming extinct, it was arranged that any firstborn son would assume the surname Leslie, and be heir to the earldom of Rothes, and any second born son would be heir to the earldom of Haddington. They had issue:Anderson, pp. 296–297. *

John Hamilton-Leslie, 9th Earl of Rothes John Hamilton-Leslie, 9th Earl of Rothes (1679–1722) was a Scottish nobleman who fought on the side of George I during the Jacobite rising of 1715. Biography John Hamilton-Leslie, born in 1679, was the eldest son of Charles Hamilton, 5 ...

Thomas Hamilton, 6th Earl of Haddington Thomas Hamilton, 6th Earl of Haddington, KT, FRCPE ( baptised 5 September 1680 – 29 November 1735) was a Scottish politician and nobleman. Life The son of Charles Hamilton, 5th Earl of Haddington and Margaret Leslie, 8th Countess of Rothes ...

*Hon. Charles Hamilton, ''died young'' *Lady Anna Hamilton, ''died in infancy''

References

Notes

Sources

John Anderson (genealogist, 1789–1832), Anderson, J., ''Historical and genealogical memoirs of the House of Hamilton; with genealogical memoirs of the several branches of the family'', Edinburgh 1825.

James Balfour Paul, Balfour Paul, Sir J., ''Scots Peerage'' IX vols. Edinburgh 1904. {{DEFAULTSORT:Haddington, John Hamilton, 4th Earl of 1650 births 1685 deaths 5 17th-century Scottish people Place of birth missing