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See also:HADDINGTON, See also:EARL OF , a Scottish See also:title bestowed in 1627 upon See also:- THOMAS
- THOMAS (c. 1654-1720)
- THOMAS (d. 110o)
- THOMAS, ARTHUR GORING (1850-1892)
- THOMAS, CHARLES LOUIS AMBROISE (1811-1896)
- THOMAS, GEORGE (c. 1756-1802)
- THOMAS, GEORGE HENRY (1816-187o)
- THOMAS, ISAIAH (1749-1831)
- THOMAS, PIERRE (1634-1698)
- THOMAS, SIDNEY GILCHRIST (1850-1885)
- THOMAS, ST
- THOMAS, THEODORE (1835-1905)
- THOMAS, WILLIAM (d. 1554)
Thomas See also:- HAMILTON
- HAMILTON (GRAND or ASHUANIPI)
- HAMILTON, ALEXANDER (1757-1804)
- HAMILTON, ANTHONY, or ANTOINE (1646-1720)
- HAMILTON, ELIZABETH (1758–1816)
- HAMILTON, EMMA, LADY (c. 1765-1815)
- HAMILTON, JAMES (1769-1831)
- HAMILTON, JAMES HAMILTON, 1ST DUKE OF (1606-1649)
- HAMILTON, JOHN (c. 1511–1571)
- HAMILTON, MARQUESSES AND DUKES OF
- HAMILTON, PATRICK (1504-1528)
- HAMILTON, ROBERT (1743-1829)
- HAMILTON, SIR WILLIAM
- HAMILTON, SIR WILLIAM (1730-1803)
- HAMILTON, SIR WILLIAM ROWAN (1805-1865)
- HAMILTON, THOMAS (1789-1842)
- HAMILTON, WILLIAM (1704-1754)
- HAMILTON, WILLIAM GERARD (1729-1796)
Hamilton, earl of See also:Melrose (1563—1637). Thomas, who was a member of the See also:great See also:family of Hamilton, being a son of Thomas Hamilton of Priestfield, was a lawyer who became a See also:lord of session as Lord Drumcairn in 1592. He was on very friendly terms with See also:- JAMES
- JAMES (Gr. 'IlrKw,l3or, the Heb. Ya`akob or Jacob)
- JAMES (JAMES FRANCIS EDWARD STUART) (1688-1766)
- JAMES, 2ND EARL OF DOUGLAS AND MAR(c. 1358–1388)
- JAMES, DAVID (1839-1893)
- JAMES, EPISTLE OF
- JAMES, GEORGE PAYNE RAINSFOP
- JAMES, HENRY (1843— )
- JAMES, JOHN ANGELL (1785-1859)
- JAMES, THOMAS (c. 1573–1629)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (1842–1910)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (d. 1827)
James VI., his legal talents being useful to the See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
king, and he was one of the eight men who, called the Octavians, were appointed to See also:manage the finances of See also:Scotland in 15o6. Having also become king's See also:advocate in 1596, Hamilton was entrusted with a large See also:share in the See also:government of his See also:country when James went to See also:London in 1603; in 1612 he was appointed secretary of See also:state for Scotland, and in 1613 he was created Lord Binning and Byres. In 1616 he became lord See also:president of the See also:court of session, and three years later was created earl of Melrose, a title which he exchanged in 1627 for that of earl of Haddington. After the See also:death of James I. the earl resigned his offices of president of the court of session and secretary of state, but he served See also:Charles I. as lord privy See also:seal. He died on the 29th of May 1637. Haddington, who was both scholarly and wealthy, See also:left a large and valuable collection of papers, which is now in the See also:Advocates' library at See also:Edinburgh. James referred familiarly to his friend as See also:Tam o' the Cowgate, his Edinburgh See also:residence being in this See also:street.
The earl's eldest son THOMAS, the 2nd earl (1600—1640), was a covenanter and a soldier, being killed by,an See also:explosion at Dun-See also:glass See also:castle on the 30th of See also:August 164o. His sons, THOMAS (d. 1645) and See also:JOHN (d. 1669), became respectively the 3rd and 4th earls of Haddington, and John's See also:grandson THOMAS (1679—1735) succeeded his See also:father CHARLES (c. 1650-1685), as 6th earl in 1685, although he was not the eldest but the second son. This curious circumstance arose from the fact that when Charles married See also:Margaret (d. 1700), the heiress of the earldom of See also:Rothes, it was agreed that the two earldoms should be left See also:separate; thus the eldest son John became earl of Rothes while Thomas became earl of Haddington. Thomas was a supporter of See also:George I. during the rising of 1715, and was a representative peer for Scotland from 1716 to 1734. He died on the 28th of See also:November 1735.
The 6th earl was a writer, but in this direction his See also:elder son, CHARLES, Lord Binning (1697—1732), is perhaps more celebrated. After fighting by his father's See also:side at See also:Sheriffmuir in 1715 and serving as member of See also:parliament for St Germans, Binning died at See also:Naples on the 27th of See also:December 1732. His eldest son, THOMAS (c. 1720—1794), became the 7th earl in 1735, and the latter's grandson THOMAS (178o—1858) became the 9th earl in 1828. The 9th earl had been a member of parliament from 1802 to 1827, when he was made a peer of the See also:United See also:Kingdom as See also:Baron Metros of Tyninghame, a title which became See also:extinct upon his death. In 1834 he became lord-See also:lieutenant of See also:Ireland under See also:Sir See also:Robert See also:Peel, leaving See also:- OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")
office in the following See also:year, and in Peel's second See also:administration (1841—1846) he served as first lord of the See also:admiralty and then as lord privy seal. When he died withoutsons on the 1st of December 1858 the earldom passed to his kinsman, GEORGE See also:BAILLIE (1802—1870), a descendant of the 6th earl. This nobleman took the name of Baillie-Hamilton, and his son GEORGE (b. 1827) became 11th earl of Haddington in 187o.
See State Papers of Thomas, Earl of Melrose, published by the See also:Abbotsford See also:Club in 1837, and Sir W. See also:Fraser, Memorials of the Earls of Haddington (1889).
End of Article: HADDINGTON, EARL OF
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