James Hamilton, 4th Duke of Abercorn
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James Edward Hamilton, 4th Duke of Abercorn (29 February 1904 – 4 June 1979), styled Viscount Strabane until 1913 and Marquess of Hamilton between 1913 and 1953, was a British peer.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref>
Early life and education
Abercorn was born in 1904 at 15 Montagu Square, London,<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> the son of James Hamilton, 3rd Duke of Abercorn, and Lady Rosalind Cecilia Caroline Bingham.<ref name="Burke's"/> He inherited his father's peerages on 12 September 1953.<ref name="Burke's">Template:Cite book</ref><ref name="WW2022"/>
He was educated at Eton and Royal Military College, Sandhurst.<ref name="timesobit">Template:Cite news</ref>
Career
After Sandhurst, Lord Hamilton was commissioned into the Grenadier Guards, where he rose to the rank of captain.<ref name="WW2022">Template:Cite web</ref> In 1946, he was elected to the County Council of County Tyrone, served as High Sheriff of Tyrone, and then served in the Senate of Northern Ireland.<ref name="WW2022"/> He became Lord Lieutenant of County Tyrone on his father's death, a position he held for the remainder of his life.<ref name="WW2022"/> He was appointed honorary colonel of the 5th Battalion, Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers (a Territorial Army unit), and died at age 75.<ref name="WW2022"/>
He was active in public life in Northern Ireland. He was chairman of the trustees of the Ulster Museum from 1962–79 and Chancellor of the University of Ulster from 1970-79. He was president of the Royal Forestry Society from 1954-66 and also served as president of the International Dendrological Union (later the International Dendrology Society).<ref name="timesobit"/>
Marriage and issue
In 1928, Abercorn married Lady Kathleen Crichton (1905–1990), a daughter of Henry Crichton, Viscount Crichton (1872–1914, son of 4th Earl Erne and father of the 5th Earl Erne) and Lady Mary Cavendish Grosvenor (1883–1959, daughter of the 1st Duke of Westminster).<ref name="Burke's"/>
They had two sons and a daughter:
- Lady Moyra Kathleen Hamilton (1930–2020), maid of honour at the coronation of Elizabeth II<ref name="debrett">Template:Cite book</ref>
- James Hamilton, 5th Duke of Abercorn (born 1934)
- Lord Claud Anthony Hamilton (born 1939), who was appointed Deputy Lieutenant of County Fermanagh in 1978; he was High Sheriff of Fermanagh in 1990 and was made a Justice of the Peace for the county in 1991. In 1982 he married Catherine Janet Faulkner (niece of Lord Faulkner of Downpatrick). They have a son and a daughter.<ref name="debrett"/>
Ancestry
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- 1904 births
- 1979 deaths
- Dukes of Abercorn
- Grenadier Guards officers
- High sheriffs of Tyrone
- Lord-lieutenants of Tyrone
- Members of the Senate of Northern Ireland 1949–1953
- Members of the Senate of Northern Ireland 1953–1957
- Members of the Senate of Northern Ireland 1957–1961
- People educated at Eton College
- Ulster Unionist Party members of the Senate of Northern Ireland
- Ulster Unionist Party hereditary peers
- Graduates of the Royal Military College, Sandhurst