Sir William Hamilton of Wishaw, seventh lord Belhaven and Stenton

(1765-1814)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Belhaven, William Hamilton, Lord, 1765-1814 LBT ID: LdBelha7 VIAF ID: 29390999 LOC ID: nr91029441	B/BAP: 1765-01-13 DIED: 1814-10-29
SOURCES: A Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Peerage (1880) 42:103; Virtual International Authority File; thePeerage.com; LOC Name Authority File
The son of Robert Hamilton of Wishaw; he was lieutenant-colonel of the Royal Lanarkshire Militia and assumed his disputed title in 1799.
REFERENCES TO Sir William Hamilton of Wishaw, seventh lord Belhaven and Stenton: Walter Scott to William Clerk, 30 September 1792 in Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Found 2: ¶ 2 ¶ n1 Lockhart, J. G. (John Gibson), 1794-1854, Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Chapter VII 1792-96 Found 1: ¶ n1 Jerdan, William, 1782-1869, The Autobiography of William Jerdan. 4 vols (London: Arthur Hall, Vertue & Co., 1852-53) Ch. 2: Childhood Found 1: ¶ 9