James Hamilton, 1st Earl of Clanbrassil PC(I) (14 August 1694 – 17 March 1758) was a British politician and peer. Hamilton was the son of James Hamilton and Hon. Anne Mordaunt, the daughter of The 1st Viscount Mordaunt. He first stood for elected office in Ireland, and sat as the Member of the

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for

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between 1715 and 1719. On 13 May 1719, he was created Baron Clanboye and Viscount of the City of Limerick in the

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.''The Peerage of England, Scotland, and Ireland: The peerage of Ireland'' (W. Owen nd 2 others 1790), 89-90. As his titles were in the Irish peerage, he was not barred from election to the

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and served as the MP for

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(1735-1741),

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(1741-1747) and for Morpeth (1747-1754). On 14 April 1746, he was invested as a member of the

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. On 24 November 1756, he was created Earl of Clanbrassil, also in the Peerage of Ireland, and subsequently served as Governor of County Louth between 1756 and his death in 1758. He married Lady Harriet Bentinck, daughter of

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and Jane Martha Temple, on 15 October 1728. Together they had two children, James and Anne, who married

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. He was succeeded by his only son, James Hamilton.

References

historyofparliamentonline.org, ''Hamilton, James, 1st Visct. Limerick [I] (c.1691-1758), of Dundalk, co. Louth.''
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