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Hamilton Palace. The Duke gradually sank into dissipation. In 1794, the couple eventually divorced, by Act of Parliament after 16 years of marriage. The Duchess initiated the divorce on the grounds of his adultery with actress Mrs. Esten since 1793, but also previous adultery with an unnamed lady (Frances Twysden, wife of the Earl of Eglinton and sister of the Countess of Jersey) since 1787.
Upon the death of his father on 5 June 2010, he became the 16th Duke of Hamilton in the Peerage of Scotland and 13th Duke of Brandon in the Peerage of Great Britain.He also inherited other Scottish peerages and titles, Marquess of Douglas, Marquess of Clydesdale, Earl of Angus, Earl of Lanark, Earl of Arran and Cambridge, Lord Abernethy and Jedburgh Forest, Lord Machanshyre and Polmont and ...
Duke of Hamilton is a title in the Peerage of Scotland, created in April 1643.It is the senior dukedom in that peerage (except for the Dukedom of Rothesay held by the sovereign's eldest son), and as such its holder is the premier peer of Scotland, as well as being head of both the House of Hamilton and the House of Douglas.
Susan Hamilton, Duchess of Hamilton (14 May 1786 – 27 May 1859), formerly Susan(na) Euphemia Beckford, was the wife of Alexander Hamilton, 10th Duke of Hamilton, and the mother of the 11th Duke. Susan was born at Château La Tour,in Vevay,Switzerland. [1] She was the daughter of William Thomas Beckford [2] and his wife, the former Lady ...
They had four children and five grand children: Lady Eleanor Douglas-Hamilton (born 10 August 1973) Lady Ann Douglas-Hamilton (born 14 May 1976) Alexander Douglas-Hamilton, 16th Duke of Hamilton (born 31 March 1978) Lord John William Douglas-Hamilton (born 2 October 1979) He married secondly Jillian Robertson in 1988 (divorced 1995). No issue.
Hamilton was born in Pimlico, London.He was the son of Alfred Douglas-Hamilton, 13th Duke of Hamilton and his wife Nina (née Poore).He was educated at Eton College and Balliol College, Oxford, where he gained a Blue in boxing and also rowed for the university.
The duke did not defend the case, and the duchess obtained her divorce. However, she did not re-marry until after the death of the duke, in 1799. In 1800 the duchess married the Earl of Exeter, whose second wife had died in childbirth in 1797. He was created Marquess of Exeter in 1801, [8] but died in 1804, and she did not remarry.
Elizabeth had three children from her first marriage to the Duke of Hamilton: Lady Elizabeth Hamilton (26 January 1753 – 14 March 1797), married Edward Smith-Stanley, 12th Earl of Derby; James Hamilton, 7th Duke of Hamilton (18 February 1755 – 7 July 1769) Douglas Hamilton, 8th Duke of Hamilton (24 July 1756 – 2 August 1799)