DOUGLAS, Charles (1663-1739) | HoP Development Site

Family and Education

b. 3 Feb. 1663, 3rd but 2nd surv. s. of William Hamilton (formerly Douglas) (d.1694), 3rd duke of Hamilton [S], and Anne (d.1716), da. of James Hamilton, duke of Hamilton [S] and suo jure duchess of Hamilton [S]; bro. James Hamilton, 4th duke of Hamilton [S] George Hamilton, earl of Orkney [S], and Ld. Archibald Hamilton^‡. educ. travelled abroad, France 1682-4. unm. d. 13 Mar. 1739; will 4 May 1734, pr. 27 June 1739. TNA, PROB 11/697.

Offices Held

Gent. of bedchamber 1689 – 1702, 1714 – d.; PC [S] 1696 – 1702, 1704–?5; CSP Dom. 1696, pp 167–8; CSP Dom. 1698, p. 405; CSP Dom. 1702–3, p. 464; Lockhart Letters ed. Szechi, 6. ld. clerk reg. [S] 1696 – 1702, 1733 – d.; ld. of treasury [S] 1704 – 05; PC 1 Nov. 1733 – d.

Amb. extraordinary Denmark 1691, 1699.

Burgess, Edinburgh 1693; sheriff principal, Lanark 1694 – d.; gov. Edinburgh castle 1737 – 38.

Col. 6th regt. of horse Nov.-Dec. 1688. CSP Dom. 1687–9, p. 366.

Parlimentarian

DOUGLAS, Charles (1663-1739)

Associated with: Crawford Douglas, Lanark; Crawford John, Lanark.

HAMILTON

Likenesses

oil on canvas by Sir G. Kneller, c.1700, Lennoxlove, Haddington, E. Lothian.

Author

Townend, Graham

Hayton, David

Volume

Lords 1660-1715

Will

Estates

Oxford 1644

Addresses

Religion

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