Charles Hamilton, 5th Earl of Haddington

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Charles Hamilton, 5th Earl of Haddington (1650-May 1685) was a Scottish nobleman.

Life

Known as Lord Binning from birth, he was born in 1650, the only son to survive infancy of John Hamilton, 4th Earl of Haddington and Lady Christian Lindsay.

Binning succeeded his father's titles in 1669. He did not involve himself actively in politics, but was broadly supportive of his kinsman the Duke of Hamilton's machinations with Lauderdale. He refused to be a signatory to the Scottish Test Act of 1681 which put him even further from public life.[1]

Haddington died in May 1685 at Tyninghame House, East Lothian.

Marriage and issue

Lord Haddington married Lady Margaret Leslie, daughter of John Leslie, 1st Duke of Rothes. Lady Margaret was heiress to her father's Earldom of Rothes, but not his Dukedom. In the terms of the marriage contract, to prevent the Rothes title dying out it was arranged that any firstborn son would assume the surname Leslie, and be heir to the Earldom of Rothes, and any second born son would be heir to the Earldom of Haddington. They had issue:[2]

References

Notes

  1. ^ Balfour Paul, vol iv, pp319-320
  2. ^ Anderson, pp296-297

Sources

  • [1] Anderson, J., Historical and genealogical memoirs of the House of Hamilton; with genealogical memoirs of the several branches of the family, Edinburgh 1825.
  • [2] Balfour Paul, Sir J., Scots Peerage IX vols. Edinburgh 1904.
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