Arthur_Cole_Hamilton

Arthur Cole-Hamilton

Arthur Cole-Hamilton

Anglo-Irish politician (1750–1810)

Hon. Arthur Cole-Hamilton (born Cole; 8 August 1750 – 1810) was an Anglo-Irish politician who sat in the Irish House of Commons for County Fermanagh and Enniskillen. After the Acts of Union 1800, he sat in British House of Commons for Enniskillen.[1]

Cole-Hamilton was the second son of John Cole, 1st Baron Mountflorence (1709–1767) of Florencecourt, County Fermanagh, and his wife, Elizabeth Montgomery. His elder brother was William Cole, 1st Earl of Enniskillen.[2]

In 1780, he married Letitia Hamilton, daughter and heiress of Claud Hamilton, MP in the Irish Parliament, and appended her surname. They had one surviving son and three daughters:[2][3]

  • Claud William Cole-Hamilton (1781–1822), High Sheriff of Tyrone in 1811, married Nichola Sophia Chaloner
  • Letitia Cole-Hamilton (5 January 1782 – 1853), married Major Randall Stafford
  • Elizabeth Ann Cole-Hamilton (October 1785 – 1849), married Henry Slade
  • Isabella Cole-Hamilton (October 1788 – 1827)

Through his son Claud he was an ancestor of the clergyman Richard Cole-Hamilton, the RAF officer John Cole-Hamilton and the politician Alex Cole-Hamilton.

References

  1. [1]
    "COLE HAMILTON, Hon. Arthur (1750–1810), of Beltrim Castle, co. Tyrone". History of Parliament Online. Retrieved 15 June 2019.
  2. [2]
    Mosley, Charles, ed. (2003). Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knighthood (107 ed.). Burke's Peerage & Gentry. pp. 1327–1329. ISBN 0-9711966-2-1.
  3. [3]
    Walford, Edward (1864). The County Families of the United Kingdom, Or Royal Manual of the Titled and Untitled Aristocracy of Great Britain and Ireland. 2. Ed. Greatly Enl. Hardwicke. p. 220. Retrieved 15 June 2019.
More information Parliament of Ireland, Parliament of the United Kingdom ...


Stub icon 2

This article about a Member of the Parliament of the United Kingdom, for a constituency in Ireland between 1801 and 1922 is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.

Stub icon 2

This article about a Member of the Parliament of Ireland (up to 1800) is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.
Share this article:

This article uses material from the Wikipedia article Arthur_Cole_Hamilton, and is written by contributors. Text is available under a CC BY-SA 4.0 International License; additional terms may apply. Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.