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{{Short description|British politician (1955–2024)}}
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{{Infobox officeholder
| honorific_prefix = [[The Right Honourable]]
| name             = The Lord HolmPatrick
| office           = Member of the [[House of Lords]]
| status           = Lord Temporal
| term_label       = as a [[hereditary peer]]
| term_start       = 15 February 1991
| predecessor      = [[Hans Hamilton, 2nd Baron HolmPatrick|The 2nd Baron HolmPatrick]]
| term_end         = 11 November 1999
| successor        = ''Seat abolished''{{thin space|{{efn|Under the [[House of Lords Act 1999]].}}}}
| birth_name       = Hans James David Hamilton
| birth_date       = 15 March 1955
| death_date       = {{death date and age|2024|3|21|1955|3|15|df=y}}
| party            = [[Conservative Party (UK)|Conservative]]
}}
'''Hans James David Hamilton, 4th Baron HolmPatrick''' (15 March 1955 – 21 March 2024), was a British [[hereditary peer]] and [[Conservative Party (UK)|Conservative]] politician.

==Background==
Lord HolmPatrick was the son of the late James Hans Hamilton, 3rd Baron HolmPatrick (1928–1991), and Anne Loys Roche Brass. The 3rd Lord HolmPatrick was the son of [[Hans Hamilton, 2nd Baron HolmPatrick]] (1886–1942), and Lady Edina Conyngham (1888–1964), daughter of [[Henry Conyngham, 4th Marquess Conyngham]] (1857–1897). In turn, the 2nd Lord HolmPatrick was the son of [[Ion Hamilton, 1st Baron HolmPatrick|Ion Trant Hamilton, 1st Baron HolmPatrick]], and Lady Victoria Alexandria Wellesley. She was a daughter of the courtier Major-General [[Lord Charles Wellesley]]. Her paternal grandfather was the great British general [[Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington]]. She was also the elder sister of the [[Henry Wellesley, 3rd Duke of Wellington|3rd]] and [[Arthur Wellesley, 4th Duke of Wellington|4th Duke]]. She was granted the rank of a duke's daughter in 1884. The first Lord HolmPatrick was an MP and Irish civic leader.

The future Lord HolmPatrick married Gill Francesca Anne du Feu, the daughter of Squadron Leader Kenneth James (Toby) Harding, on 19 July 1984. Their son, James Hans Stephen Hamilton (born 6 October 1982), was ineligible to succeed his father in the barony, due to being born before his parents marriage. The barony therefor passed to Lord Holmpatrick's brother, Ion Henry James Hamilton, 5th Baron Holmpatrick.<ref>Debrett's Peerage 1995 edition page P643</ref><ref>Burke's Peerage 1999 edition page 1432</ref>

Lord HolmPatrick died on 21 March 2024, at the age of 69.<ref>{{cite news |title=Hans HolmPatrick |url=https://rip.ie/death-notice/hans-holmpatrick-meath-552215 |access-date=5 April 2024 |publisher=RIP.ie |date=4 April 2024}}</ref>

==Political career==
Lord HolmPatrick was a Conservative peer until 1999, when most of the hereditary peers were removed from the [[House of Lords]] by the [[House of Lords Act 1999]].<ref>{{cite web |title=Lord HolmPatrick |url=https://members.parliament.uk/member/2008/career |website=House of Lords |access-date=5 April 2024}}</ref> Lord HolmPatrick was not one of those 15 hereditary peers elected by the whole House nor one of those elected by the Conservative hereditary.

{{Emblem table
|image = [[File:Coronet of a British Baron.svg|centre|150px]][[File:HolmPatrick Escutcheon.png|centre|200px]]
|escutcheon = Gules a mullet Argent between three cinquefoils pierced Ermine on a chief Or a heart of the first.
|crest = A demi-antelope Argent armed and unguled Or charged with a mullet Gules holding between the hoofs a human heart as in the arms.
|supporters = Dexter an antelope Argent attired Or sinister a lion Gules each having pendant from a collar flory counter-flory Or a shield Ermine charged with a heart Gules.
|motto = Qualis Ab Incepto <ref>{{cite book|title=Burke's Peerage |date=1959}}</ref>}}

==Notes==
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==References==
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==Sources==
*Mosley, Charles, ed., ''Burke's Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage'', 107th edition, London (2004) p.&nbsp;1947.

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