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3 unusual facts about Duke of Hamilton


James Douglas-Hamilton, Baron Selkirk of Douglas

Douglas Douglas-Hamilton, 14th Duke of Hamilton, 11th Duke of Brandon

Alfred Douglas-Hamilton, 13th Duke of Hamilton, 10th Duke of Brandon

Old English Bulldog

Three dogs from the Duke of Hamilton's strain of Old English Bulldog, 'Wasp, Child, and Billy,' were famously depicted in a painting and recognized as some of the last known members of the breed before they became extinct.


Archibald Douglas, 1st Baron Douglas

His opponents, the 12 year old Duke of Hamilton, Sir Hew Dalrymple, and others, claimed that Stewart was not the son of Lady Jane Douglas, and thus was not the rightful heir to the Douglas estates.

Archibald Johnston

He continued to oppose concessions to Charles, and strongly disapproved of the Engagement concluded in 1648 by the government of the Duke of Hamilton with Charles at Carisbrooke, which, while securing little for Presbyterianism, committed the Scots to hostilities with the English Parliament and the New Model Army.

Baron Hamilton of Hameldon

Baron Hamilton of Hameldon, of Hambledon in the County of Leicester, is a title in the Peerage of Great Britain, held by the Duke of Hamilton from 1790 to 1799 and by the Duke of Argyll since 1799.

Engagers

Neither of the more experienced Scottish Generals, Lord Leven or David Leslie, was willing to lead the army as they sided with Argyll, so the command was given to the less experienced Duke of Hamilton.

Hamilton Academical F.C.

In the early days of the century the club played in cerise and French grey, the colours of the then Duke of Hamilton.

Scotland in the Wars of the Three Kingdoms

A faction of the Covenanters known as the Engagers, led by the Duke of Hamilton, therefore sent an army to England to try to restore Charles I in 1648.


see also

Anne Hamilton

Lord Anne Hamilton (1709-1748), son of James Hamilton, 4th Duke of Hamilton.

Anne Hamilton, 3rd Duchess of Hamilton 1631-1716), daughter of Sir James Hamilton, 1st Duke of Hamilton

Charles Mohun, 4th Baron Mohun

In 1712, two years after Mohun's Whig party had been heavily defeated in an election, the Duke of Hamilton gained the post of special envoy to Paris.

Memory conformity

Reportedly, Rudolf Hess, Adolf Hitler's Chief of Staff, flew to Scotland to present The Duke of Hamilton with a peace proposal between Germany and Britain.

Scotland and the Thirty Years' War

James Hamilton, Marquis of Hamilton (later Duke of Hamilton), General in the Swedish army in Germany