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

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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 Ma ...

, 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

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'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 Linton Bridge, near

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, Charles, fitted up for

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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

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. Haddington died in May 1685 at

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, East Lothian.

Marriage and issue

Lord Haddington married Lady Margaret Leslie, daughter of

John Leslie, 1st Duke of Rothes John Leslie (27 July 1681), son of John Leslie, 6th Earl of Rothes, was the 7th Earl of Rothes and 1st Duke of Rothes. According to tradition, he was a descendant of Princess Beatrix, sister of King Malcolm III of Scotland. His family had int ...

. 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, ...

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, Charles Hamilton, 5th Earl of 1650 births 1685 deaths Nobility from East Lothian 5 17th-century Scottish people Place of birth missing