Sir Robert Montgomery Hamilton of Wishaw, eighth lord Belhaven and Stenton

(1793-1868)

NAME AUTHORITIES: NRA: Hamilton Robert Montgomery (1793-1868) 8th Baron Belhaven LBT ID: LdBelha8	B/BAP: 1793 DIED: 1868-12-22
SOURCES: A Genealogical and Heraldic Dictionary of the Peerage (1880) 42:103; thePeerage.com
The son of William Hamilton of Wishaw (d. 1814); he was a Scottish representative peer (Whig) from 1819 to 1832, and Lord-Lieutenant of Lanarkshire (1863-68).
REFERENCES TO Sir Robert Montgomery Hamilton of Wishaw, eighth lord Belhaven and Stenton: Thomas Creevey to Elizabeth Ord, 17 August 1820 in The Creevey Papers: A Selection from the Correspondence & Diaries of the late Thomas Creevey, M.P. (London: John Murray, 1903) Found 1: ¶ 7 John Gibson Lockhart to Henry Hart Milman, 27 August 1846 in The Life and Letters of John Gibson Lockhart (London: John C. Nimmo, 1897) Found 1: ¶ 2 Lang, Andrew, 1844-1912, The Life and Letters of John Gibson Lockhart (London: John C. Nimmo, 1897) Chapter 21: 1842-50 Creevey, Thomas, 1768-1838, The Creevey Papers: A Selection from the Correspondence & Diaries of the late Thomas Creevey, M.P. (London: John Murray, 1903) Ch XIII: 1819-20