James Hamilton, 7th Earl of Abercorn

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James Hamilton, 7th Earl of Abercorn Template:Post-nominals PC (Ire) (1686–1744), styled Lord Paisley from 1701 to 1734, was a Scottish and Irish nobleman and peer. An amateur scientist and musician, he published a book on magnetism in 1729 and a treatise on musical harmony in 1730, which was subsequently emended and re-issued by his teacher, Dr. Pepusch.

Birth and origins

James was born on 22 March 1686, the second but eldest surviving son of James Hamilton and his wife Elizabeth Reading.Template:Sfn His father was at the time the representant of a cadet branch of the Earls of Abercorn that descended from George Hamilton, 1st Baronet of Donalong, the fourth son of the 1st Earl but would later succeed a cousin as the 6th Earl of Abercorn. The Abercorn Hamiltons had come from Scotland to Ireland during the Plantation of Ulster.

James's mother was the only surviving child of Sir Robert Reading, 1st Baronet, of Dublin.Template:Sfn His parents were Protestants. They had married in January 1684.Template:Sfn He was one of 14 siblings, who are listed in his father's article.

Family tree
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Early life

While James Hamilton was a young child, his father fought for King William in the Williamite War in Ireland and brought provisions to Derry just before the Siege of Derry.Template:Sfn

In 1701 the main line of the Abercorns failed when Charles Hamilton, 5th Earl of Abercorn died childless in Strabane, Ireland.Template:Sfn Charles's nearest living male relative was Hamilton's father, Charles's second cousin (see Family tree). His father therefore succeeded as the 6th Earl of Abercorn, and Hamilton, aged 15, became the new Earl's heir apparent with the courtesy title of Lord Paisley.Template:Sfn At the same time as Earl of Abercorn in Scotland, his father succeeded as the 7th Baron of Strabane in Ireland. About six months later, on 2 December 1701, his father, Lord Abercorn, was rewarded with the new Irish titles. The King advanced him from Baron Strabane to Viscount Strabane and gave him the additional subsidiary title of Baron Mountcastle.Template:Sfn

Marriage and children

In April 1711, Lord Paisley, as he now was, married Anne Plumer (1690–1776), daughter of Colonel John Plumer of Ware, Hertfordshire.Template:Sfn

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  1. James (1712–1789), succeeded him as 8th Earl of AbercornTemplate:Sfn
  2. John (c. 1714 – 1755), Captain in the Royal Navy, father of the John Hamilton, 1st Marquess of AbercornTemplate:Sfn
  3. William, died youngTemplate:Sfn
  4. Anne (1715–1792), married Sir Henry Mackworth, 6th Baronet and had issueTemplate:Sfn
  5. George (1718–1787), Canon of Windsor, married Elizabeth Onslow (d. 1800), daughter of Lieutenant-General Richard OnslowTemplate:Sfn
  6. Plumer Hamilton, died youngTemplate:Sfn
  7. William (1721–1744), lost in HMS Victory off Alderney.Template:Sfn
  8. A daughter (born 1736), died an infantTemplate:Sfn

Scientific studies

On 10 November 1715 Lord Paisley was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society.Template:Sfn

Lord Paisley was a Freemason and was Grand Master of the Premier Grand Lodge of England during 1725–1726.

In 1729 he published a short treatise entitled Calculations and Tables Relating to the Attractive Virtue of Loadstones (according to the catalogue of the British Library), which presents the results of experiments he had made with lodestones (natural permanent magnets) of various sizes, each time measuring the mass of the loadstone and the weight of iron with which it can be armed, or that it can hold on its surfaces.Template:Sfn

A short treatise on harmony containing the chief rule for composition in two, three and four parts
Frontispiece of the 1730 edition

Lord Paisley also studied music, taking lessons from Johann Christoph Pepusch, a well-known musician in his time. In 1730 he published, based on Pepusch's teaching, anonymously and without his teacher's assent a booklet entitled "A Short Treatise on Harmony".Template:Sfn Understandably, the teacher felt offended. As the book was not well written and lacked illustrations in musical notes, he was concerned about his reputation as his connection to the book would certainly be discovered.Template:Sfn He, therefore, helped to prepare a second improved edition published in 1731. In this form the book exposed and documented the practice of the best composers of the period.Template:Sfn Paisley was still in friendly connection with his teachers as Pepusch visited Paisley at his seat in Witham, Essex in 1733.Template:Sfn

Father's succession

Lord Paisley succeeded as the 7th Earl of Abercorn at his father's death in 1734.Template:Sfn In Ireland, he succeeded as the 2nd Viscount Strabane.Template:Sfn

Engraving of a half-length portrait of James Hamilton Earl of Abercorn, showing a clean- shaven man wearing a long curly wig and armour
James Hamilton, Earl of Abercorn

Lord Abercorn was sworn a Privy Counsellor in Great Britain on 20 July 1738. He was appointed to the Privy Counsellor in Ireland in July 1737 but was sworn only on 26 September 1739 when he came to Ireland.Template:Sfn

On 17 October of that same year, George II issued a royal charter to the nation's first orphanage for abandoned children, the Foundling Hospital, of which Abercorn was one of the many founding governors.Template:Sfn

Death and timeline

Abercorn died on 11 January 1744 at Cavendish Square, western London,Template:Sfn and was buried five days later in the Ormonde vault of the Henry VII Chapel of Westminster Abbey where his father had already been laid to rest.Template:Sfn

Timeline
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0 1686, 22 Mar Born[1]
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Script error: No such module "age". 1689, 21 Mar Father brought provisions to Derry during the Williamite War in Ireland.[2]
Script error: No such module "age". 1701, Jun Became heir apparent as Lord Paisley as his father succeeded as the 6th Earl of Abercorn.[3]
Script error: No such module "age". 1702, 8 Mar Accession of Queen Anne, succeeding King William IIITemplate:Sfn
Script error: No such module "age". 1711, Apr Married Anne Plumer.[4]
Script error: No such module "age". 1714, 1 Aug Accession of King George I, succeeding Queen AnneTemplate:Sfn
Script error: No such module "age". 1715, 10 Nov Elected a Fellow of the Royal Society.[5]
Script error: No such module "age". 1727, 11 Jun Accession of King George II, succeeding King George ITemplate:Sfn
Script error: No such module "age". 1729 Published Calculations and Tables on the Attractive Power of Loadstones[6]
Script error: No such module "age". 1734, 28 Nov Succeeded his father as 7th Earl of Abercorn.[7]
Script error: No such module "age". 1738, 20 Jul Sworn of the Privy council of Great Britain[8]
Script error: No such module "age". 1739, 26 Sep Sworn of the Privy council of Ireland[8]
Script error: No such module "age". 1744, 11 Jan Died at Cavendish Square in London[9]

Notes and references

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