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 STOWELL — STRARANE. 259 had no issue, was b. 9 Dec. 1767, d. 20 Aug. 1817, at Amsterdam. Will dat. 3 Feb. 1816, pr. 28 Oct. 1817. He d. s.p.tn.s.(") 28 Jan. 1836 at Early Court afsd., and was hir. 3 Feb. at Sonuing, co. Iierks, aged 90, when the peerage became ex(inc(.( b ) Will dat. 30 April 1*30, pr. March 1836, under £260,000. STOWELL PARK. See "STOWELL of Stowell Park," eo. Gloucester," Barony (Scoii), cr. 1821 ; ex. 1836. STRABANE. Barony [I.] 2, J AMES Hamilton -, Muster of Abercom, s. and b. ap. I 1 G1 7 e ' J'" 1105, lst EaBL of Asrbcoen [8.], was cr. v.p. 8 May 1617 a ) (when to ' about 13 years old) LORD HAMILTON, BARON OF STRABANE, co. Tyrone [I.], with rem. to the heirs male of the body of his father, 10,>,J - whom he sue. 23 March 161 7. 8, as 2d Earl of Abercorn, &c. [S.j He, however, resigned his Irish peerage 11 Nor. 1633, in favour of his yr. br., Claud Hamilton, on whom it was conferred as below. See fuller particulars of him under " ABBBCORH " Earldom [8.], cr. 1606, sub the 2d Earl. II. 1634. 2. The Hon. Claud Hamilton, 2d s. of James (Ham- , . , ilton), 1st Earl of Abercorn [S.], by Marion, da, of Thomas (Botd), "' . fith Loliu BOVD [S.]. was b. about 1606, and sue. to Strabane and the tfmr* pther lris1 ' est:ltw of 1,is ,fttber °" the latter ' s death, 23 March 1617/S. He was, on the petition of his elder br., who had resigned the Irish peerage as abuvestated, cr. U Aug. 1634, ( c ) LORD HAMILTON, BARON OF STKAHAXK, co. Tyrone [I.], with the precedency of the former patent of 8 May 1617, and with rem., failing the heirs male of his body, to those of his father. His vote as a l'eer was received by proxy at the Tarl. [I.] 21 March 1634. He m. 28 Nov. 1682, Jean, 4th and yst. daughter of George (Gordon), 1st Marquess of Hi'ntly [S.]. by Henrietta, da. of Esine (Swart), 1st Di ke of Lennox [S ] He d. 14 June 1638, and was bur. at I.eakpatrick, co. Tyrone. His widow expended j£ 1,000 in fortifying Strabane Castle, which was, however, destroyed in the rebellion, and she herself taken prisoner, in Drc. 1641 by Sir Phelim O'Nkii.k, whom she m. shortly afterwards. She was living in indigence in 1656 at which date she had i'S paid her by the State for her relief. ( a ) The Hon. William Scott, his only s., 6. about 1793 ; ed. at Eton and at Univ. Cull. Oxford, 1812; was M.P. for Gatton, 1826-30, and d. unm. (but 2 months before his father) 26 Nov. 1835 at Early Court afsd., aged 42. Marianne, Viscountess Sidmouth, the only snrv. child and sole heir, d. s.p. 26 April 1S42, on whose death the lauded property, acquired by her father, devolved on her cousin, the Earl of Eldon. ( b ) Coote, in his "English VMlian*'' [1804], says of him: "He fills the seat of judicature with dignity, and his sentences are those of an able Judge. Speaking of him as an orator we may say /Hi purus eC preuut, el in quantum satis est jirnfluens, urmo nun deeit." A writer in the " Gertt. Mag." for 1S46, signing himself " Wdtonensis" [George Matchani, LL.D., Advocate (Doctors' Commons) 1820], under " Anecdotes of Lord StOKtll," thus commemorates him : "His tone deep, his manner solemn, his words apt, his anangeuii nt pel feet, his sentence decisive, he looked the very impersonation of justice. . . . Altho' his face was fine, his abord was scarcely gracious, and his figure was short and ungraceful ; his walk latterly assimilated to the waddle of a dock. ... To one thing from first to last he was ever alive — to the accumulation of wealth, and for this purpose he condescended to trifles. . . . He was, to say the truth, an habitual and irreclaimable gourmand. . . He delighted in the society' of women of rank, fashion and beauty. . . . His intellects decayed before his bodily powers were exhausted'" His portrait, in Judge's robes, painted by Jelm Hoppner, U.A., was engraved in 1809. The preambles to the patents of 1617 and 1634 and the proceedings on the resignation of 1U33 are given in ••lodge," vol. v, pp. 112—113.