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Authorised form of nameHamilton; James (1686 - 1744); 7th Earl of Abercorn
Dates1686 - 1744
NationalityBritish
Date of birth22 March 1686
Place of deathCavendish Square, London
Date of death11 January 1744
DatesAndPlacesBurial:
The Duke of Ormonde's vault in Westminster Abbey, London
Research fieldMagnetism
ActivityCareer:
Privy Councillor (1738); Privy Councillor (Ireland) (1739)
Membership categoryFellow
Date of election10/11/1715
RSActivityRoyal Society roles:
Council: 1717-1719, 1721, 1723, 1725, 1727, 1729
RelationshipsSon of James Hamilton, 6th Earl of Abercorn, and his wife, Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Robert Reading, Bart, of Dublin, (1671) and his wife, Jane, Dowager Countess of Mountrath and daughter of Sir Robert Hannay, Bart; succeeded his father (1734); married Anne, daughter of Colonel John Plumer of Blakesware, Ware, Hertfordshire, and his wife, Mary, daughter of William Hale of King's Walden, Hertfordshire
SourceSources:
Bulloch's Roll; DNB (father's entry); GEC; Thomas
References:
'Gentleman's Magazine' 1744, p53
Notes:
Proposed by Sir Hans Sloane. Styled Lord Paisley between 1701 and 1734.
CodeNA7331
Archives associated with this Fellow
RefNoTitleDate
EL/P1/117Extract of a letter, from Lord Paisley [James Hamilton] to George Graham1723
CLP/22ii/31Paper, 'Account of a treatise entitled "Calculations and tables relating to the attractive virtue of loadstones, etc"' by Lord Paisley [James Hamilton, 7th Earl of Abercorn]1730
EL/P1/116Letter, from Lord Paisley [James Hamilton] to George Graham, dated at Witham18 October 1723
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