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December 1868) was a Scottish peer and politician. Born

at Wishaw House, he was the son of William Hamilton, 7th Lord Belhaven and Stenton, and Penelope

Macdonald, youngest daughter of Ranald MacDonald of Clanranald.[1] In 1814 he succeeded his father in the Lordship of Belhaven and Stenton.

Hamilton sat on the Whig benches in

the House of Lords as a Scottish Representative Peer between

1819 and 1832. The latter year he was created Baron Hamilton of Wishaw,

in the County of Lanark, in the Peerage of the United

Kingdom. This title gave him an automatic seat in the House of

Lords. Hamilton also served as High Commissioner to the General

Assembly and Kirk from 1831 to 1841, from 1847 to 1851, again from

1853 to 1857 and a last time from 1860 to 1866. Having been previously the

county's vice-lord-lieutenant, he was appointed Lord Lieutenant of

Lanarkshire in 1863, an office he held until his death five

years later. In 1861, Hamilton was invested as a Knight of the Thistle. He

is recorded as President of the Wodrow Society in 1845.