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Thomas Hamilton

Also Known As: "Lord Binning"
Birthdate:
Birthplace: Haddington, East Lothian, Scotland (United Kingdom)
Death: August 30, 1640 (40)
Dunglass Castle, Haddington, East Lothian, Scotland (United Kingdom)
Place of Burial: East Lothian, Scotland
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Son of Thomas Hamilton, First Earl of Haddington and Lady Margaret Foulis, Countess of Haddington
Husband of Catherine (Erskine) Hamilton and Jean Gordon
Father of John Hamilton, 4th Earl of Haddington; Thomas Hamilton, 3rd Earl of Haddington; Robert Hamilton and Margaret Hamilton
Brother of Margaret Hamilton, Countess of Hartfell; Helen Hamilton; Sir James Hamilton of Priestfield; Sir John Hamilton of Trabroun; Jean Hamilton and 5 others
Half brother of Lady Christian Hamilton; Isabel Hamilton and Robert Hamilton of Byning

Managed by: Andrew Wilkinson
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About Thomas Hamilton, 2nd Earl of Haddington

From Wikipedia - Thomas Hamilton, 2nd Earl of Haddington

Thomas Hamilton, 2nd Earl of Haddington (Thursday, 25 May 1600 – Thursday, 30 August 1640) was a Scottish nobleman.

Life

Thomas Hamilton, Lord Binning was the eldest son of Thomas Hamilton, 1st Earl of Haddington and his second wife, Margaret Foulis of Colinton. Until his accession to his father's Earldom, he was known by the courtesy title Lord Binning. Following education abroad Binning returned to Scotland where he attended Parliament in 1621. Binning attended his father at the funeral of King James in London, and later was a canopy bearer during Charles I's 1633 coronation in Edinburgh at Holyrood Abbey.

Binning succeeded to his father's titles in 1637, and the following year, at the King's urging, signed the National Covenant. At the start of the Bishops' War, Haddington was commissioned Major General for the Lothians, under General Leslie. When General Leslie advanced into England in 1640, he left armaments behind at Duns, Haddington retrieved them back to his headquarters at Dunglass Castle, to prevent their capture by the English garrison at Berwick upon Tweed. On Wednesday, 29 August 1640, he beat back an attempt of the garrison of Berwick to capture a magazine of victuals and arms near Coldstream.

On Thursday, 30 August 1640, a huge explosion took place in the powder magazine of the castle, destroying it. Haddington, who was standing in the courtyard reading correspondence from Leslie to his kinsfolk and men, was killed. Others killed were Haddington's brother, Robert Hamilton of Wester Binning; his natural brother, Patrick Hamilton; his cousins John Hamilton of Redhouse and Alexander Hamilton of Innerwick; Alexander's son, Haddington's brother-in-law, Colonel Sir John Erskine; and the Minister of Bonkyl Kirk, Master John Gaittis.

Marriage and Issue

Haddington married Lady Catherine Erskine (died1635), daughter of John Erskine, Earl of Mar and Lady Mary Stuart, herself a daughter of Esmé Stewart, 1st Duke of Lennox, and by her had issue:

  • Thomas Hamilton, 3rd Earl of Haddington
  • John Hamilton, 4th Earl of Haddington
  • Hon. Robert Hamilton died in infancy
  • Hon. James Hamilton died in infancy
  • Lady Margaret Hamilton died in infancy

Following his Countess's death in 1635, Haddington married secondly in 1640 to Lady Jean Gordon, daughter of George Gordon, 2nd Marquess of Huntly, and Lady Anne Campbell, herself a daughter of Archibald Campbell, 7th Earl of Argyll and by her had issue a posthumous daughter:

  • Lady Margaret Hamilton, married John Keith, 1st Earl of Kintore.
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Thomas Hamilton, 2nd Earl of Haddington's Timeline

1600
May 25, 1600
Haddington, East Lothian, Scotland (United Kingdom)
May 25, 1600
Edinburgh, Edinburghshire, Scotland, United Kingdom
1626
1626
Tyninghame, East Lothian, Scotland
1626
1633
April 6, 1633
Alloa, Ayrshire - or Lanarkshire, Scotland
1640
August 30, 1640
Age 40
Dunglass Castle, Haddington, East Lothian, Scotland (United Kingdom)
September 1, 1640
Age 40
Whitekirk and Tyninghame, East Lothian, Scotland (United Kingdom)
1641
January 15, 1641