James Hamilton, 1st Viscount Claneboye
Deceased Person
1560 – 1644
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Who was James Hamilton, 1st Viscount Claneboye?
James Hamilton, 1st Viscount Claneboye was a Scot who became owner of large tracts of land in County Down, Ireland, and founded a successful Protestant Scots settlement there several years before the Plantation of Ulster. Hamilton was able to acquire the lands as a result of his connections with King James I of England, for whom he had been an agent in negotiations for James to succeed Queen Elizabeth I of England.
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