Thomas Hamilton, ninth earl of Haddington

(1780-1858)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Haddington, Thomas Hamilton, Earl of, 1780-1858 NRA: Hamilton Thomas (1780-1858) 9th Earl of Haddington statesman DNB: Hamilton, Thomas, ninth earl of Haddington (1780-1858), politician LBT ID: LdHaddi9 VIAF ID: 18788067 LOC ID: n88256092	B/BAP: 1780-06-21 DIED: 1858-12-01
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The son of the eighth earl (d. 1828); he was educated at Edinburgh University and Christ's Church, Oxford and was a Tory MP for St. Germans (1802-06), Cockermouth (1807), Callington (1807-12), St. Michael (1814-18), Rochester (1818-26), and Yarmouth (1826-27). He was lord lieutenant of Ireland (1834-35).
REFERENCES TO Thomas Hamilton, ninth earl of Haddington: Henry Brougham to Thomas Creevey, 24 November 1814 in The Creevey Papers: A Selection from the Correspondence & Diaries of the late Thomas Creevey, M.P. (London: John Murray, 1903) Found 1: ¶ 1 Lockhart, J. G. (John Gibson), 1794-1854, Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Chapter V 1829 Found 1: ¶ 19 Morgan, Lady (Sydney), 1783-1859, Lady Morgan’s Memoirs: Autobiography, Diaries and Correspondence. Second Edition, Revised 2 vols (London: Wm. H. Allen & Co., 1863) Chapter XXIII Found 1: ¶ 2 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 X: 1814-15