Lord Claud Hamilton

Who was Lord Claud Hamilton?

Lord Claud John Hamilton was a British Member of Parliament during the Victorian era.

Born the second son of James Hamilton, 2nd Marquess of Abercorn and his wife Lady Louisa Jane Russell, Hamilton was educated at Harrow School, and served in the Grenadier Guards and the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers. In 1865, he became Conservative MP for Londonderry City until 1868 when he was appointed a Lord of the Treasury in Benjamin Disraeli's first ministry. In 1869, he became MP for King's Lynn until 1880, for Liverpool from 1880 to 1885, for Liverpool West Derby from 1885 until he resigned his seat in 1888 and for Kensington South from January 1910 to 1918.

Hamilton married Carolina Chandos-Pole on 20 July 1878 and they had two children:

⁕Gilbert Claud Hamilton, who gained the rank of Colonel in service of the Grenadier Guards, fought in the Second Boer War and was decorated several times. He married twice, firstly in 1911 Enid Awa Elgar, daughter of Charles Elgar from Fernside, Featherston, New Zealand, and secondly in 1916 Mary Blair, daughter of Joseph Allan Blair from New York City, U.S.A. He had no issue.