Robert Hamilton, 6th of Wishaw, de jure 6th Lord Belhaven

Biographical Summary

"Robert William, born at Wishaw 3 May 1781; became sixth of Wishaw on the death of his brother Charles, on 15 May 1763; was served heir-male and of line, and also heir of provision of his father, William Hamilton, fourth of Wishaw, on 24 January 1770. He became de jure sixth Lord Belhaven on the death of James, the fifth Lord, and the last of the Biel line, in 1777, but never assumed the title, and died at Wishaw 27 March 1784. He married, at Edinburgh, 11 February 1764, Susan, second daughter of Sir Michael Balfour of Denmiln, Baronet, and by her, who died at Edinburgh 9 January 1789, had issue."

SOURCE: The Scots Peerage, Vol. II, page 53

Arms

Arms recorded in Lyon Office, 1768 - First and Fourth Grand Quarters : 1 and 4. Gules, a mullet argent between three cinquefoils ermine. 2 and 3. Gules, a man's heart proper, shadowed or, between three cinquefoils ermine. Second and Third Grand Quarters should be under an Entail the Arms of Hamilton of Rosehall, but not so entered in the Lyon Register. 1 and 4. Gules, an annulet or between three cinquefoiuls ermine. 2 and 3. Gules, a mullet argent between three cinquefoils ermine, and on a chief of the second a rose of the first.

SOURCE: The heraldry of the Hamiltons, page 83