Mary Anna Hamilton, Duchess of Abercorn (née Lady Mary Curzon-Howe; 23 July 1848 – 10 May 1929), was an English

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. She was the daughter of

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, and his second wife, Anne Gore.

Life

The Duchess held the office of

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Marriage and issue

She married James Hamilton, Marquess of Hamilton, eldest son of

James Hamilton, 1st Duke of Abercorn James Hamilton, 1st Duke of Abercorn, (21 January 1811 – 31 October 1885), styled Viscount Hamilton from 1814 to 1818 and The Marquess of Abercorn from 1818 to 1868, was a British Conservative statesman who twice served as Lord Lieutenant of I ...

and Lady Louisa Jane Russel on 7 January 1869 at St. George's Church, St. George Street,

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, England. They had seven sons and two daughters: *

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(1869–1953) * Lord Claud Penn Alexander Hamilton (1871–1871, on the same day) * Lord Charlie Hamilton (1874–1874, on the same day) * Lady Alexandra Phyllis Hamilton (1876–1918), who had The Princess of Wales as sponsor at her baptism, she was lost at sea aboard RMS ''Leinster'', unmarried. * Lord Claud Francis Hamilton (1878–1878, on the same day) * Lady Gladys Mary Hamilton (1880–1917), who in 1902 married

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(1877–1946) She was his first wife; and they had one son. * Lord Arthur John Hamilton (1883–1914), who was Deputy Master of the Household from 1913,

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in the

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and was killed in action at the

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. * Lord unnamed Hamilton (1886–1886, on the same day) * Lord Claud Nigel Hamilton (1889–1975),

in the

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, fought in the First World War and served in the household of

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, his widow and

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as Deputy Master of the Household, as

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, as Equerry in Ordinary and as

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and Extra Equerry. In 1933 he married Violet Ruby Ashton. They had no issue.

Ancestry

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Abercorn, Mary Hamilton, Duchess of 1848 births 1929 deaths Daughters of British earls British duchesses by marriage

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