Historical and genealogical memoirs of the House of Hamilton

OF THE BRANCHES OF THE HOUSE OF HAMILTON. 299
His Lordship married, secondly, in
1786, Anne, eldest daughter of Sir
Charles Gascoigne, Knt., by whom he
had issue :
Lady Charlotte, who died at Bath in
1*793, in her fourth year.
Wood, i. 685. XL Charles, eighth Earl of Had-
dington, born 5th July 1753, was Cap-
tain of the grenadier company of the
Duke of Buccleuch's fencible regiment,
1778; succeeded his father in 1794; was
appointed Lord Lieutenant of the co.
of Haddington, 1804, and chosen one of
the sixteen representatives of the Scottish
Peerage, at the general election in 1807.
His Lordship married, 30th April
1779, Lady Sophia Hope, born 2d Feb.
1759, third daughter of John, second
Earl of Hopetoun, and by her, who died
8th March 1813, had issue,
ibid. XII. Thomas, Lord Binning, born
at Edinburgh 21st June 1 780, educated
at Edinburgh University, afterwards
entered a nobleman of Christ Church
College, Oxford ; chosen Member of
Parliament for St Germains, at the
general election in 1802; for Cocker-
mouth, on a vacancy in 1807; and for
Callington, at the general election same
year ; is now member for Rochester,
and a commissioner for the affairs of
India.
He married, 23d November 1802,
Lady Maria Parker, born 23d January
1781, only surviving: child of George, earl of
■" HADDINGTON.
fourth Earl of Macclesfield.
Titles. — Charles Hamilton, Earl of
Haddington, Baron of Binning and
Byres, Lord Lieutenant of the co. of
Haddington.
Creations. — Baron of Binning and
Byres, in the co. of Haddington, in
1613; Earl of Melrose, 20th March
1619, to the first Earl and his heirs-
male ; title of Melrose suppressed, and
his Lordship created Earl of Hadding-
ton, to him and his heirs-male aforesaid,
by patent, dated 27th August 1627,
with the former precedency, 20th March
1619.
Arms. — Quarterly, first and fourth,
gules, on a chevron, between three
cinquefoils, ermine, a buckle, azure, be-
twixt two mushetours, (spots of ermine,)
all between a bordure, Or, charged with
eight thistles, vert, as the paternal coat
of Hamilton, with a suitable difference.
Second and third argent, a fess wavy
between three roses, gules, barbed and
seeded, proper, as a coat of augmenta-
tion for the Earldom of Melrose.
Crest. — Two dexter hands issuing
out of clouds, joined fess ways, and
holding between them a branch of laurel,
proper.
Supporters. — Two talbots, argent,
each gorged with a plain collar, gules.
Motto. — " Presto et persto."
Chief seat, Tyninghame House in co.
Haddington.