Reverend John Hamilton, Minister of the Gospel at St. Mingo's in Glasgow

REVEREND GEORGE HAMILTON

Minister of the Gospel at St Mungo's parish in Glasgow

Fasti of the Church of Scotland III: 458

Biographical Summary

John Hamilton, bapt. 8th Sept. 1713, son of John H., min. of Blackfriars Parish ; educated at Univ. of Glasgow ; ord. to the Barony 8th Sept. 1737; pres. by George II. 20th Dec. 1748; trans, and adm. 16th March 1749 ; Moderator of General Assembly 22nd May 1766 ; D.D. (Glasgow 1776); died 3rd Feb. 1780. He marr.

(1) 7th Dec. 1742, Mary (buried 10th June 1747), daugh. of George Campbell, his predecessor in this parish, and had issue—

• John, buried 10th Jan. 1749

(2) 24th Feb. 1752, Mary (bapt. 12th Nov. 1727, died 26th July 1808), daugh. of John Bogle of Hamilton Farm, and had issue —

• John of Northpark, Lord Provost of Glasgow, born 16th June 1754, died 1827 ;
• George, born 3rd Aug. 1755, died in infancy ;
• Patrick, in Jamaica, born 6th Sept. 1757, died 15th Jan. 1788;
• William, born 28th Oct. 1758, died 18th July 1759 ;
• George, merchant, Glasgow, born 20th Jan. 1760, died Aug. 1837 ;
• Janet, born 17th June 1763, died 30th June 1769 ;
• Margaret, born 14th March 1765, died 7th Aug. 1774 ;
• Mary, born 12th Aug. 1768, died 2nd Aug. 1771 ;
• Sarah, buried 21st Nov. 1785.

SOURCE: Fasti ecclesiae scoticanae: the succession of ministers in the Church of Scotland from the reformation, Vol. III, page 458