John Glencairn Carter Hamilton, 1st Baron Hamilton of Dalzell (16 November 1829 – 15 October 1900), was a

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soldier and politician. Hamilton was born in

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, France, the only son of Archibald James Hamilton, 12th of Orbiston (1793–1834), and was educated at

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. He served in the

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, rising to the rank of commissioned

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in 1847, lieutenant in 1849 and captain in 1854. In 1856 he was appointed major in the Queen's Own Royal Glasgow and Lower Ward of Lanarkshire Yeomanry Cavalry. Although retiring from the regular Army in 1860, he continued to serve in the Yeomanry until 1885. He began his political career in 1857 as Whig Member of Parliament (MP) for Falkirk Burghs, serving for two years. He later sat as a Liberal for Lanarkshire South in 1868–74 and 1880–86. He also served as a justice of the peace, and as deputy lieutenant and vice-

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for Lanarkshire. In 1886, Hamilton was raised to the peerage as Baron Hamilton of Dalzell. He served in

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's government as a

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from 1892 to 1894. The Hamiltons made large amounts of money in the nineteenth century, as the lands they held in Lanarkshire were sold for coal exploitation. In the late 1850s and 1860s Hamilton was able to greatly extend his home of Dalzell House, a former

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outside

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, laying out landscaped grounds at the same time. On 29 March 1864 he married Lady Emily Leslie-Melville (died 1882), daughter of

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, and had issue: #Archibald John Hamilton (1868–1870) # Gavin George Hamilton (1872– 1952), later 2nd baron #Leslie d'Henin Hamilton (1873–1914) #John David Hamilton (1878–1900)

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