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{{short description|Barony in the Peerage of Great Britain}}

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| name              = Barony of Hamilton of Hameldon 
| image             = [[File:Coronet of a British Baron.svg|150px]]<br />[[File:Arms of Hamilton of Hameldon.svg|200px]] 
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| caption           = Arms of Gunning, Baroness Hamilton: ''Gules, on a fess ermine between three doves argent ducally crowned or as many crosses pattée of the first''<ref name="collins"/>
| creation_date     = 20 May 1776 
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| monarch           = [[George III]] 
| peerage           = [[Peerage of Great Britain]] 
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| first_holder      = [[Elizabeth Hamilton, 1st Baroness Hamilton of Hameldon]] 
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| present_holder    = [[Torquhil Campbell, 13th Duke of Argyll]] 
| heir_apparent     = Archibald Campbell, Marquess of Lorne 
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| remainder_to      = The baroness' heirs male of the body lawfully begotten<ref name="collins">{{cite book|last1=Collins|first1=Arthur|title=The Peerage of England: Containing a Genealogical and Historical Account of All the Peers of that Kingdom, Now Existing, Either by Tenure, Summons, Or Creation, Their Descents and Collateral Lines, Their Births, Marriages and Issues |date=1779|pages=369–372|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mvk-AQAAMAAJ&pg=PA369-IA1|access-date=23 July 2017|language=en}}</ref> 
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[[Image:Elizabeth Campbell, 1st Baroness Hamilton.png|thumb|200px|[[Elizabeth Hamilton, 1st Baroness Hamilton of Hameldon]]]]
'''Baron Hamilton of Hameldon''', of Hambledon in the County of Leicester, is a title in the [[Peerage of Great Britain]], held by the [[Duke of Hamilton]] from 1790 to 1799 and by the [[Duke of Argyll]] since 1799.<ref name="burke">{{cite book |title= Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knighthood|publisher=Burke's Peerage & Gentry |editor= Mosley, Charles |editor-link= Charles Mosley (genealogist) |edition=107 |year= 2003 |page= 1745|ref=Burke |isbn=0-9711966-2-1}}</ref>

It was created in 1776 for [[Elizabeth Campbell, 1st Baroness Hamilton of Hameldon|Elizabeth Gunning]] (Duchess of Hamilton), wife since 1752 of [[James Douglas-Hamilton, 6th Duke of Hamilton]]. The [[Duke of Hamilton]] died in 1758, and his widow remarried the following year, to [[John Campbell, 5th Duke of Argyll|John Campbell]], who later became Marquess of Lorne in 1761 and 5th [[Duke of Argyll]] in 1770. She died in 1790, and her Barony passed to her only surviving son from her first marriage, the 8th [[Duke of Hamilton]]. On his death without male issue, the barony passed to his half-brother the Marquess of Lorne, the Duchess's eldest surviving son by her second marriage. Lord Lorne succeeded his father as 6th Duke of Argyll in 1806, and the Barony of Hamilton has since remained united with that title.<ref name="burke"/>

The arms of Elizabeth Gunning, Baroness Hamilton of Hameldon, were her paternal arms of Gunning augmented with a fess ermine and ducal crowns for the doves: ''Gules, on a fess ermine between three doves argent ducally crowned or as many crosses pattée of the first''.<ref name="collins"/>

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| name = Arms of Gunning, borne by Elizabeth Gunning (Duchess of Hamilton), ''suo jure'' Baroness Hamilton of Hameldon
| image = Arms of Elizabeth Hamilton, Baroness Hamilton of Hameldon.svg
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| year_adopted = 1776
| coronet = Coronet of a Baroness
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| escutcheon = ''Gules, on a fess ermine between three doves argent ducally crowned or as many crosses pattée of the first''
| supporters = Supporters: on the dexter side, a sphynx, guardant, and winged, Or, the face, proper, charged on the hip and shoulder with 2 crosses pattée, gules: on the sinister, a man armed with Mail, a sword by his side, proper; his exterior hand sustaining a Standard, the Staff, Or, the Banners Gules, fringed Or, and charged with Doves, as in the Arms
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==Barons Hamilton of Hameldon (1776)==
*[[Elizabeth Hamilton, 1st Baroness Hamilton of Hameldon|Elizabeth Campbell, 1st Baroness Hamilton of Hameldon]] (1733–1790)
*[[Douglas Hamilton, 8th Duke of Hamilton|Douglas Douglas-Hamilton, 8th Duke of Hamilton, 2nd Baron Hamilton of Hameldon]] (1756–1799)
*[[George Campbell, 6th Duke of Argyll|George William Campbell, 6th Duke of Argyll, 3rd Baron Hamilton of Hameldon]] (1768–1839)

''see [[Duke of Argyll]] for further succession.''

==Family tree==
{{Dukes of Argyll family tree}}

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==References==
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