Historical and genealogical memoirs of the House of Hamilton

152 HISTORICAL AND GENEALOGICAL MEMOIRS
anne, duchess He married, first, an Irish lady, but had no issue by her, who was buried
OF HAMILTON. ' ' J ' J '
===== in Westminster Abbey, 11th April 1719 ; secondly, 26th September 1719,
Lady Jane Hamilton, fifth daughter of James, sixth Earl of Abercorn.
That lady was, in 1736, appointed first lady of the bedchamber, mistress
of the robes and privy purse, to Augusta, Princess of Wales ; also gover-
ness to King George the Third, on his birth in 1738 ; and, dying at Paris
on 6th December 1753, was buried at Montmartre. She had four sons
and four daughters.
1. Elizabeth Douglas, born 22d August 1720, married, 16th May 1742,
to Francis, Earl Brooke and Earl of Warwick, and had issue ; secondly,
to General Robert Clarke, and, dying in Dover Street, London, 24th Fe-
bruary 1800, in her 80th year, was buried in the Ormond vault, in King
Henry the Eighth's chapel, in Westminster Abbey.
2. Charles Hamilton of Riccartoun, Pardovan, and Court Nichola, and
Castle Confey, born in London on the 29th October 1721. He served
three campaigns in the Russian service ; the first, 1740, as lieutenant in
the regiment of Kiow ; the second and third, in 1741 and 1742, as aid-
du-camp to Mareschal Keith, with the rank of captain, " pendant lesquel-
les deux campagnes il m'a assiste dans la dite qualite, avec toute la bra-
veure et intelligence require dans une telle emploie, dans toutes les occa-
sions qui sont arrivees contre les Suedois," as appears by a certificate from
Mareschal Keith and Comte de Lacy. He received many wounds, and
served as a volunteer in Germany from 1742 to 1745, with his friend the
famous Count Regnaut de Schaumbourg Lippe. He was appointed cap-
tain of a company in the Marquis of Granby's regiment of foot 1745 ; was
as remarkable for his parts and brilliant wit as his bravery, and died 10th
September 177L He marrried Mary Catherine, youngest daughter of
Colonel Dufresne, a distinguished officer, who lost an arm at the battle of
Malplaquet in 1709, and had one child, who, in 1777, was appointed a
lady-attendant on their Royal Highnesses the King's daughters. She mar-
ried, in June 1785, John Dickenson, junior, Esq. of Taxal in Cheshire.
3. Jane, born at London 9th August 1722, died 18th May 1723.
4. A daughter, born in London 4th August 1724, died soon after.
5. Jane, born in London 19th August 1726, married at Greenwich Hos-
pital, 23d July 1753, to Charles, ninth Lord Cathcart, and had issue. She
died at Petersburgh, 13th November 1771, aetatis 46.
6. Archibald, born in Dublin 11th September 1727, a youth of uncom-