Colonial Despatches

Lord Claud Hamilton was born in London on 27 July 1813. Educated at Harrow and Trinity College, Cambridge, he represented Tyrone County in Parliament from 1835 to 1837 and again from 1839 to 1874. Hamilton served as treasurer of the household from March to December 1852 and from March 1858 to June 1859.1

In 1855, he became lieutenant colonel commandant of the Donegal Militia. He served as vice chamberlain from July 1866 to December 1868. Hamilton died at his home in Portland Place, London,on 3 June 1884.2

• 1. Lord Claud Hamilton, The Peerage, December 2012.
• 2. Ibid.