Lord Ernest William Hamilton (5 September 1858 – 14 December 1939) was a

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soldier and

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politician who sat in the

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from 1885 to 1892. Hamilton was the seventh son of

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and his wife Lady Louisa Jane Russell. He was educated at

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and

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. He became a

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in the

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. His elder brothers Lord George Hamilton, Lord James Hamilton, and Lord Frederick Hamilton were also Conservative MPs. In the 1885 general election Hamilton was elected

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for Tyrone North. He held the seat until 1892. Hamilton was the author of several novels, two of which – ''The Outlaws of the Marches'' and ''The Mawkin of the Flow'' – are set on the

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in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. Another novel, ''

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'', is based on the ballad of the same name. In the period after the

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Hamilton published several historical works, notably ''The Soul of Ulster'', arguing that Ulster Protestants are descended from Scottish Border Reivers transplanted to Ulster by James I and VI, and equating the 1641 massacre of planters by Irish Catholic rebels with later Irish nationalist movements. In the 1920s Hamilton supported the

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led by

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, but he resigned from the movement when Lintorn-Orman refused to co-operate with the Conservative government in resisting the 1926 general strike. Hamilton was brought up as an

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. His religious views are expressed in ''Involution'', a book which denounces the theological concept of sacrificial atonement and argues that Jesus was a purely ethical teacher. Hamilton argues that

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was the correct interpretation of Jesus' message and that the God of the

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is a personification of the

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national character, which he describes in highly

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terms. Hamilton married Pamela Campbell (d. 1931) in 1891. She was a granddaughter of

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by his son Capt. Frederick Augustus Campbell (1839–1916). They had two sons and two daughters: * Guy Ernest Frederick Hamilton (1894–1914), who died unmarried. * Mary Brenda Hamilton (1897–1985), who in 1922 married the Lt.-Col. of the Scots Guards, Alphonse de Chimay, Prince de Chimay, Comte de Caraman (d. 1973). Their only child and daughter was the widow of

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. * Jean Barbara Hamilton (b. 1898), who in 1921 became the first wife of

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(1900–1969). They were divorced in 1944 and had one son. * John George Peter Hamilton (1900–1967), who in 1932 married Alexandra Christine Egerton (d. 1963), daughter of William Egerton from

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. They had no issue.

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Hamilton, Lord Ernest William 1858 births 1939 deaths 11th Hussars officers Graduates of the Royal Military College, Sandhurst Members of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for County Tyrone constituencies (1801–1922) People educated at Harrow School Younger sons of dukes UK MPs 1885–1886 UK MPs 1886–1892 British fascists Irish Conservative Party MPs