John Hamilton, 1st Lord Bargany was a Scottish peer.

Biography

He was the eldest son of Sir John Hamilton of Lettrick and his wife Jean, daughter of Alexander Campbell, Bishop of Brechin. His father, a natural son of

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, had a charter of the lands of Bargany in Ayrshire in 1624 and died soon after 1637; during his father's lifetime John was known as Hamilton of Carriden. In 1632 he married Jean, daughter of William Douglas, 1st Marquess of Douglas; they had two sons and five daughters. Hamilton was created Lord Bargany in the

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on 16 November 1641 and was served heir to his father on 23 April 1642. He sat in the Convention of Estates of 1643 and the Parliaments of 1644 and 1648.''RPS''
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Date accessed: 16 June 2020. He supported King Charles I during the Civil War, and raised a regiment of foot for the Duke of Hamilton's expedition into England in 1648. After Hamilton's defeat at Preston Bargany was held prisoner for a year. He then joined King Charles II in the Netherlands, and during the 1651 invasion of England was sent to raise troops in the north of Scotland. After Charles was defeated at

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Bargany was again taken prisoner, and held in the Tower of London for about a year. He was excepted from

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in 1654. He died in April 1658, and his eldest son

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was served heir after the Restoration. His widow died in 1669. Hew Hamilton Dalrymple
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'', vol. II (Edinburgh, 1905) pp. 27–29.

References

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