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 150 HAMILTON. Aboyne [S.] Ho d. at 12 Portuian sq., Midx., 18 Aug. 1852, aged 85. Will pr. March 1S53. ( a ) His widow, who was 6. at Chateau La Tour, Vovay, Switzerland, 14 May 1780, d- 27 May 1859, at Portrnau sq afsd. XL 1852. 11. William Alexander Anthony- Archibald (Hamil- ton), Duke of Hamilton-, &c. [S.], also Duke of Brandon, &c. only s. and h., b. 19 Feh. 1811, in Ctrosveuor place, Midi. ; styled Marquess of Douglas, 1819-1852 ; ed. at Eton and at Ch. Ch., Oxford ; mat. 2 July 1829 ; B.A, 15 Nov. 1S32 ; Knight MareseUal of Scotland, 1846 ; sue. to the ■peerage 18 Aug. 1852, Lord Lieut, of Lanarkshire, 1852. He IB. 23 Feb. 1843, in the Ducal Palace at Mannheim, the Princess Marie-Ainelie-EIixabeth-Caroline of Baden, yst. da. of Charles Louis Frederick, Grand Di ke of Baden, by Stephanie Louise Adrienne,( b ) adopted da. of the Emperor Na poleon I., da. of Claude, Count de Beauhahnois. He d. (from a fall after supper), 8 July 1803, at the Maison Doree, Boulevard des Italiens, Paris, aged 52.( c ) His widow, who was b. 11 Oct. 1818, d. 18 Oct. 18S8, aged 70, at her Villa, at Baden Baden. Her will pr. 23 July 1889, at £6,452. XII. 1868. 12. WILLIAM Alexander Louis Stephen (Douglas- Hamilton), Duke of Hamilton (1643), Marquess of Douglas (1633), Marquess of Clydesdale (1643), Eahl of Angus', 11 ) (13S9 ? and 1033) Earl of AitiiAN and Cambridge^) (1643), Eahl of Lanark^) (1661 !), Lord Abehnethy and Jedburgh Forest (1633), Lord Aven and InnkrdaleC 5 ) (1643), and LordMacoansire and Polmont (1661 ?),(•) being Premier Duke in the peerage of Scotland, also Duke of Brandon and Baron Dutton (1711) in the peerage of Great Britain, hereditary Keeper of Holyrood House, 1st s. and h., b. 12 March 1845, at Connaught Place, Paddington, generally known as Earl of Angus till 1852 : styled Marquess of Douglas, 1852-63; sue. to the peerage 8 July 1S63; mat. at Oxford (Ch. Ch.), 20 Oct. 1863. By a decree of the Emperor Napoleon II., 20 April 1804, he was maintained and confirmed in the hereditary title of Due de CltatcUheraiilt (in France) which was cr. in 1548(f) in favour of James Hamilton, Earl of Arraii. By ( n ) Lord Lamingtou in " The days of the Dandies " writes of him, " Never was such a magnifico as the 10th Duke, the Ambassador to the Empress Catherine ; when 1 knew him he was very old, but held himself straight as any grenadier. He was always dressed in a military laced undress coat, tights and Hessian boots, kc. His collection of paintings, objects of Vertu, old books and MSS. (the latter being partly made by his wife's father, the well known author of "Vathek") were sold for £397,562 in July 1882, the MSS. (under 700 in number) being purchased by the German government for £80,000. ( b ) This Stephanie was second cousin to Hortense [Beauharnois), Queen Consort of Holland, the mother of the Emperor Napoleon III. See " Her. and lien." vol. iv. p. 100. (°) He lived chiefly at Paris or Baden, taking little interest in English politics, but according to " 'Hie days of the Dandies " he, " having inherited in some measure his father's grandceship of manner " was the Duke whom Lord Brougham wrote of as " Very Duke of Very Duke." ( d ) See vol. iii, p. 159, note " d," sub " Douglas," as to the right of the Hamilton succession to this Earldom (13S9) cot having been acknowledged. (o) As to the anomalous titles of Earl of Cambridge and Baron of Inncrdale see p. 142, note "c." Mr. Balfour Paul {Lyon) points out that while the Earldom of Cambridge has long been disused, the Barony of Innerdale, which in all cases {i.e., in 1643, in 1661, and 1698) accompanies it, is generally retained. ( f ) The Earldom of Lanark and the Barony of Machansyrc a7id Polmont were resigned {inter alia) by the second Duke in 1650. These dignities, however, would have become extinct at his death and there is no proof of any subsequent grant thereof having been made in his lifetime to preserve them therefrom. It is, therefore, presumed that they followed the limitation in their grant (dated 1639) and became extinct at his Grace's death in 1651 and that the titles of the same name conferred on the Duchess Anne in 1661 had but the precedency of that date. (8) See vol. i, p. 5, note "a," sub •' Abercorn," and p. 407, as to this French Dukedom and this " confirmation " thereof, in favour of one who was neither heir male nor heir of line to the grantee, which miiBt consequently be (apparently) considered as tantamount to a new creation of a French Dukedom.