Heraldry of the Hamiltons

THE HAMILTONS OF PEESTON 119
(539) Sir John Hamilton, seventh Baronet, born April 1751 ; died unmarried
1778, and was succeeded by his brother: —
(540) Sir Robert Hamilton, eighth Baronet, born 9th July 1754; died un-
married 8th June 1799, and was succeeded by his cousin (No. 543).
(541) Thomas Hamilton, fourth son of Sir William Hamilton (No. 536), born 1st
October 1728; died 2nd August 1781. He was Professor of Anatomy
in Glasgow University. He married Isabel, daughter of Dr William
Anderson, and had a son : —
(542) William Hamilton, born 1760; died 1793. He also was Professor of
Anatomy in Glasgow University. He married Elizabeth, daughter of
William Stirling of Drumpelier, and had : —
(a) William (No. 543).
(b) Thomas Hamilton, author of Annals of the Peninsular Cam-
paign, etc., died s.p. 1842. Married, first, Annette,
daughter of Archibald Montgomery; and, second, 15th
February 1834, Maria Latour, widow of Sir Robert
Townsend Farquhar, Bt. She died 27th August 1875.
Hl*lT16 recorded in Lyon Office, 1787. — Gules, a bell or between three cinquefoils
argent, all within a bordure of the last, charged in the middle chief point
with a rose of the field barbed vert. [Plate VII., fig. 5.] CREST : A man
from the middle affronte' in modern dress, habited gules, brandishing a sword
aloft proper. Motto : "Propatria!'
(543) Sir William Stirling Hamilton, ninth Baronet, born 1788 ; died 6th
May 1856. He was Professor of Logic, Edinburgh University. On 18th
July 1 8 16 he was served heir to his remote cousin, Sir Robert Hamilton,
Bt. of Preston and Fingalton (No. 540). He married, in 1829, Janet,
daughter of Hubert Marshall. She died 24th December 1877, leaving: —
(a) William (No. 544).
(b) Hubert Hamilton, Advocate, born 1834; died 20th Decem-
ber 1901. Married, 17th June 1868, Louisa, daughter of
Laurence Davidson, and has : —
(1) William Stirling Hamilton, born 7th July 1869.
(2) Harry Austen Hamilton. Married, 16th April
1907, Madeleine, daughter of Toucas Mes-
sillon, of Paris.
(c) Thomas Hamilton, M.B , born 1843. Married, 6th November
1873, Helen, daughter of H. W. Nutt, and has : —
(1) William Gavin Hamilton, born 1874.
(2) Hubert Stirling Hamilton, born 1879.
(544) Sir William Stirling Hamilton, tenth Baronet, born 17th September
1830. Married, 15th October 1856, Eliza, daughter of Major-General
Barr, and has : —
(a) William Hamilton, born 4th December 1868. Married, 24th
May 1902, Mabel, daughter of Major-General Henry
Tyndall, and has : —
(1) A son, born 5th April 1903.
(b) John Hamilton, born 1873.
HrtTlS. — Gules, three cinquefoils within a bordure argent. [Plate VII., fig. 4.]
CREST : An armed man from the middle, brandishing a sword aloft proper.
MOTTO : "Propatria" (Burke's Peerage).