James Hamilton, 2nd Marquess of Hamilton

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The Marquess of Hamilton
Portrait by Daniël Mijtens
Born	1589
Died	2 March 1625 Whitehall, London
Resting place	Hamilton
Title	2nd Marquess of Hamilton 4th Earl of Arran
Successor	James Hamilton, 1st Duke of Hamilton
Spouse	Lady Ann Cunningham
Children	Anne Montgomerie, Countess of Eglinton Margaret Lindsay, Countess of Crawford Mary Douglas, Countess of Queensberry James Hamilton, 1st Duke of Hamilton William Hamilton, 2nd Duke of Hamilton
Parent(s)	John Hamilton, 1st Marquess of Hamilton Margaret Lyon

James Hamilton, 2nd Marquess of Hamilton and 4th Earl of Arran KG PC (1589 – 2 March 1625), styled Lord Aven from 1599 to 1604, was a Scottish politician. He was the son of John Hamilton, 1st Marquess of Hamilton and Margaret Lyon.

Career

Hamilton inherited his father's titles and estates in 1604. King James granted him the property and lands of Arbroath Abbey, or "Aberbrothwick", and on 5 May 1608 created him Lord Aberbrothwick (or Arbroath). In 1609, Aberbrothwick inherited the earldom of Arran from his insane and childless uncle James Hamilton.

He moved to England with King James, and invested in the Somers Isles Company, an offshoot of the Virginia company, buying the shares of Lucy Harrington, Countess of Bedford. The Parish of Hamilton in the Somers Isles (alias Bermuda) is named for him. He was created Earl of Cambridge and Baron of Innerdale in the peerage of England on 16 June 1619. In 1621 he served as Lord High Commissioner to the Parliament of Scotland, the King's representative in the Parliament of Scotland.

Marriage and children

In 1603, he married Lady Ann Cunningham, a daughter of James Cunningham, 7th Earl of Glencairn and they had five children:

Lady Anne Hamilton, married Hugh Montgomerie, 7th Earl of Eglinton and had issue
Lady Margaret Hamilton, married John Lindsay, 17th Earl of Crawford, 1st Earl of Lindsay and had issue
Lady Mary Hamilton (died 1633), married James Douglas, 2nd Earl of Queensberry, no issue
James Hamilton, 1st Duke of Hamilton (1606–1649)
William Hamilton, 2nd Duke of Hamilton (1616–1651)

He also had an illegitimate daughter, Margaret (who married John Hamilton, 1st Lord Belhaven and Stenton and had issue) by Anne Stewart, a daughter of Walter Stewart, 1st Lord Blantyre.

Hamilton died on 2 March 1625 at Whitehall, London, from a fever and was buried in the family mausoleum at Hamilton, on 2 September of that year.

Ancestry

Ancestors of James Hamilton, 2nd Marquess of Hamilton

16. James Hamilton, 1st Lord Hamilton

8. James Hamilton, 1st Earl of Arran

17. Mary Stewart, Countess of Arran

4. James Hamilton, 2nd Earl of Arran

18. Sir David Betoun of Creich

9. Janet Bethune of Easter Wemyss

19. Janet Duddingston

2. John Hamilton, 1st Marquess of Hamilton

20. John Douglas, 2nd Earl of Morton=30

10. James Douglas, 3rd Earl of Morton

21. Janet Crichton =31

5. Lady Margaret Douglas

22. James IV of Scotland

11. Catherine Stewart

23. Marion Boyd

1. James Hamilton, 2nd Marquess of Hamilton

24. John Lyon, 4th Lord Glamis

12. John Lyon, 6th Lord Glamis

25. Elizabeth Gray

6. John Lyon, 7th Lord Glamis

26. George Douglas, Master of Angus

13. Janet Douglas, Lady Glamis

27. Elizabeth Drummond

3. Margaret Lyon

28. William Keith, 2nd Earl Marischal

14. Robert Keith, Master of Marischal

29. Lady Elizabeth Gordon

7. Janet Keith

30. John Douglas, 2nd Earl of Morton =20

15. Lady Elizabeth Douglas

31. Janet Crichton =21

References

James Hamiton, National Portrait Gallery, London. Retrieved July 2009
Cokayne 1910, p. 2.
Marion O'Connor, 'Godly Patronage: Lucy Russell, Countess of Bedford', Johanna Harris & Elizabeth Scott-Baumann, The Intellectual Culture of Puritan Women (Palgrave, 2011), p. 73.

Biography

Cokayne, George E. (1910). Gibbs, Vicary (ed.). The complete peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, extant, extinct, or dormant. Vol. I, Ab-Adam to Basing. London: St. Catherine Press.

Parliament of Scotland
Preceded byThe Earl Marischal	Lord High Commissioner 1621	Succeeded byThe Earl of Traquair (from 1639)
Court offices
Preceded byThe Duke of Lennox	Lord Steward 1623–1625	Succeeded byThe Earl of Pembroke
Peerage of Scotland
Preceded byJohn Hamilton	Marquess of Hamilton 1604–1625	Succeeded byJames Hamilton
Preceded byJames Hamilton	Earl of Arran 1609–1625
New creation	Lord Aberbrothwick 1608–1625
Peerage of England
New creation	Earl of Cambridge 1619–1625	Succeeded byJames Hamilton

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