Sackville Hamilton
Sackville Hamilton PC (Ire) (14 March 1732 – 29 January 1818)[1] was an Anglo-Irish politician.
He was the third son of Hon. Henry Hamilton and his wife Mary Dawson, daughter of Joshua Dawson.[2] His uncles were Frederick Hamilton and Gustavus Hamilton.[3] His grandfather was Gustavus Hamilton, 1st Viscount Boyne and his younger brother was Henry Hamilton.[2]
Hamilton entered the Irish House of Commons for St Johnstown (County Longford) in 1780 and sat for the constituency until 1783.[1] Subsequently he was elected for Rathcormack and Clogher.[1] He chose the latter and was a Member of Parliament for the constituency until 1795, resigning the seat to be Escheator of Munster, a notional 'office of profit under the crown'.[1] In the following year he stood successfully for Armagh Borough, which he represented until 1798.[1] In 1796, he was sworn of the Privy Council of Ireland.[4] In 1780, Hamilton was appointed Under-Secretary to the Lord Lieutenant of Ireland.[5] He held this post until February 1795 and again from May of the same year until 1796.[5]
He married Arabella Berkeley, daughter of Reverend Robert Berkeley.[6] They had a son.[6]
References
- ^ a b c d e "Leigh Rayment - Irish House of Commons 1692-1800". Retrieved 1 May 2009.
- ^ a b Granville, Mary (1862). The Autobiography and Correspondence of Mary Granville. Vol. vol. I. London: Richard Bentley. p. 26.
{{cite book}}:|volume=has extra text (help) - ^ Burke, John (1832). A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Peerage and Baronetage of the British Empire. Vol. vol. I (4th ed.). London: Henry Colburn and Richard Bentley. p. 136.
{{cite book}}:|volume=has extra text (help) - ^ "Leigh Rayment - Privy Council of Ireland". Retrieved 1 May 2009.
- ^ a b Haydn, Joseph (1851). The Book of Dignities: Containing Rolls of the Official Personages of the British Empire. London: Longman, Brown, Green and Longman's. p. 446.
- ^ a b "ThePeerage - Rt. Hon. Sackville Hamilton". Retrieved 1 May 2009.