John Hamilton, 3rd Baron Hamilton of Dalzell
John d'Henin Hamilton, 3rd Baron Hamilton of Dalzell, GCVO, MC (1 May 1911 – 31 January 1990), was Lord Lieutenant of Surrey from 12 March 1973 until 2 May 1986.[1]
Educated at Eton College and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, Hamilton was commissioned as an officer into the Coldstream Guards in 1931. In 1935 he married Rosemary Coke and acquired Beckington Castle, Somerset. Their children included James Leslie Hamilton (1938–2006), later the fourth Baron, and Archie, born at Beckington in 1941,.[2] later a Conservative politician and life peer.
During the Second World War, Hamilton saw active service with his regiment's 5th Battalion, which formed part of the Guards Armoured Division, in the Battle of Normandy, and was injured there on 18 July 1944. After the end of the war, he sold his house at Beckington to H. F. Bailey, who re-established Ravenscroft School there, and moved to Snowdenham House, Bramley, near Guildford.
In the 1960s, Hamilton was President of the National Association of Probation Officers.[3] In 1961, he was with Queen Elizabeth II at Kingston on Thames as Vice Lord Lieutenant for Surrey, and from 1973 to 1986 was Lord-Lieutenant of Surrey. He was appointed a Knight Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order (GCVO) in the 1987 New Year Honours.[4]
Lady Hamilton's sister Celia was the grandmother of Jack Brooksbank, who married the Queen's granddaughter Princess Eugenie in 2018.[5][6]
References
- ^ ‘HAMILTON OF DALZELL’, Who Was Who, A & C Black, an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing plc, 1920–2016; online edn, Oxford University Press, 2014 ; online edn, April 2014 accessed 5 Feb 2017
- ^ 'Births' column of The Times dated Friday, 2 January 1942, p. 1
- ^ Hansard, House of Lords, Vol. 302, Col. 1190, 19 June 1969.
- ^ "No. 50764". The London Gazette. 30 December 1986. pp. 1–28.
- ^ Kidd, C. (1990). "Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage 1990". Debrett's Peerage. Retrieved 25 October 2018.
....Rosemary Olive (Baroness Hamilton of Dalzell), b 1910: m 1935, 3rd Baron Hamilton of Dalzell. Residence – Garden Cottage, Snowdenham House, Bramley, Guildford.— Celia Dorothy, b 1919: m 1942, Stamp Godfrey Brooksbank, Capt ...
- ^ Harris, K. "Princess Eugenie's fiancé Jack is not a commoner - unseen photos revealed ahead of wedding". UK Daily Express. Retrieved 12 October 2018.
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