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BELHAVEN AND STENTON, See also:

JOHN See also:HAMILTON, 2ND See also:BARON (1656--17o8); was the eldest son of See also:Robert Hamilton, See also:Lord Presmennan (d. 1696) , and was See also:born on the 5th of See also:July 1656. Having married See also:Margaret, granddaughter of John Hamilton, 1st Baron Belhaven and Stenton; who had been made a peer by See also:Charles I. in 1647, he succeeded to this See also:title in 1679. In 1681 he was imprisoned for opposing the See also:government and for speaking slightingly of See also:James, See also:duke of See also:York, afterwards James II., in See also:parliament, and in 1689 he was among those who asked See also:William of See also:Orange to undertake the government of See also:Scotland. Belhaven was at the See also:battle of See also:Killiecrankie; he was a member of the Scottish privy See also:council, and he was a director of the Scottish Trading See also:Company, which was formed in 1695 and was responsible for the See also:Darien expedition. He favoured the agitation for securing greater See also:liberty for his See also:country, an agitation which culminated in the passing of the See also:Act of See also:Security in 1705, and he greatly disliked the See also:union of the parliaments, a speech which he delivered against this proposal in See also:November 1706 attracting much See also:notice and a certain amount of ridicule. Later he was imprisoned, ostensibly for favouring a projected See also:French invasion, and he died in See also:London on the 21st of See also:June 1708. Belhaven is chiefly famous as an orator, and two of his speeches, one of them the famous one of November 1706, were printed by D. See also:Defoe in an appendix to his See also:History of the Union (1786). Belhaven's son, John, who fought on the See also:English See also:side at See also:Sheriffmuir, became the 3rd baron on his See also:father's See also:death. He was drowned in November 1721, whilst proceeding to take up his duties as See also:governor of See also:Barbados, and was succeeded by his son John (d. 1764).

After the death of John's See also:

brother James in 1777 the title was for a See also:time dormant; then in 1799 the See also:House of Lords declared that William Hamilton (1765–1814), a descendant of John Hamilton, the paternal See also:great-grandfather of the 2nd baron, was entitled to the dignity. William, who became the 7th baron, was succeeded by his son Robert (1793-1868), who was created a peer of the See also:United See also:Kingdom as Baron Hamilton of See also:Wishaw in 1831. He died without issue in See also:December 1868, when the See also:barony of Hamilton became See also:extinct; in 1875 the House of Lords declared that his See also:cousin, James Hamilton (1822–1893) was rightfully Baron Belhaven and Stenton, and the title descended to his kinsman, See also:Alexander Charles (b. 1840), the loth baron.

End of Article: BELHAVEN AND STENTON, JOHN HAMILTON, 2ND BARON (1656--17o8); was the eldest son of Robert Hamilton, Lord Presmennan (d. 1696)

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