John d'Henin Hamilton, 3rd Baron Hamilton of Dalzell, (1 May 1911 – 31 January 1990), was a British peer and courtier. He served with the

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during the

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, and after succeeding his uncle in the peerage in 1952, became a

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and

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. Hamilton was the only son of Major Leslie d'Henin Hamilton and his wife Amy Ricardo. Major Hamilton was a younger son of

John Hamilton, 1st Baron Hamilton of Dalzell John Glencairn Carter Hamilton, 1st Baron Hamilton of Dalzell (16 November 1829 – 15 October 1900), was a Scottish soldier and politician. Hamilton was born in Marseille, France, the only son of Archibald James Hamilton, 12th of Orbiston (179 ...

. Educated at

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and the

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, Hamilton was commissioned into the

as a second lieutenant on 29 January 1931. He was promoted to lieutenant on 29 January 1934. In 1935 he married Rosemary Coke and acquired

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. Their children included James Leslie Hamilton (1938–2006), later the fourth Baron, and Archibald Gavin ("Archie"), born at Beckington in 1941, later a

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politician and

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. On 12 September 1937, he became a lieutenant in the Coldstream Guards reserve of officers. During the

, Hamilton saw active service with his regiment's 5th Battalion, which formed part of the

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, in the

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, and was injured there on 18 July 1944. Hamilton was awarded the

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on 30 June 1945 for his service on the European front. He was promoted to a substantive captaincy in the reserve of the Coldstream Guards on 1 January 1949. After the end of the war, he sold his house at Beckington to H. F. Bailey, who re-established

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there, and moved to Snowdenham House, Bramley, near Guildford. Hamilton succeeded his uncle,

Gavin Hamilton, 2nd Baron Hamilton of Dalzell Gavin George Hamilton, 2nd Baron Hamilton of Dalzell, (29 June 1872 – 23 June 1952), was a Scottish Liberal politician. Hamilton was the second but eldest surviving son of John Hamilton, 1st Baron Hamilton of Dalzell, and his wife Lady Emil ...

, in his peerage in 1952. He was appointed a deputy lieutenant of

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on 16 October 1957. In the 1960s, Hamilton was President of the National Association of Probation Officers. In 1961, he was with

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as Vice Lord Lieutenant for Surrey. Lord Hamilton was appointed a

on 17 September 1968. In 1973, he was appointed

. Hamilton retired as a Lord-in-Waiting on 1 July 1981, and was made a KCVO the following day. He retired from the Lord-Lieutenancy in 1986, and was made a

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in the

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. Lady Hamilton's sister Celia was the grandmother of

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, who married the Queen's granddaughter

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in 2018.

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