Charles Douglas-Hamilton, 7th Earl of Selkirk

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Charles George Archibald Douglas-Hamilton, 7th Earl of Selkirk ( May 18, 1847 - May 2, 1886 ), was a British nobleman and officer from the Douglas-Hamilton family .

Life

He was the second son of William Hamilton, 11th Duke of Hamilton , from his marriage to Princess Marie Amalie of Baden . As the younger son of a duke , he used the courtesy address "Lord" Charles Hamilton.

In December 1862, he joined the British Army and was cornet of the Lanarkshire Regiment of Yeomanry Cavalry . In March 1866 he bought an officer position as Cornet with the 11th Hussars . He participated in the Gordon Relief Expedition and served as General Sir Robert Napier's aide-de-camp during the Ethiopia Expedition of 1868 . In October 1869 retired with the rank of Cornet from the Army.

He was best known in public for his financial hardship, which brought him into conflict with the law. He was arrested in 1869 after trying in vain adventurous ways to escape his creditors in a Hansom cab - an event that earned him the ridicule of the press. In 1871 bankruptcy proceedings to settle his debts were initiated against him, which were completed in 1874.

In 1885 a distant relative, Dunbar Douglas, 6th Earl of Selkirk , died without leaving any descendants. Although Charles' older brother William Hamilton, 12th Duke of Hamilton, was the closest male relative, Charles inherited his title of nobility as Earl of Selkirk due to a special inheritance regulation from 1688 . He then changed his family name from "Hamilton" to "Douglas-Hamilton".

The new 7th Earl of Selkirk died the following year at the age of only 38. Since he had remained unmarried and had no offspring, the earliest title as a subordinate title came to his brother after all.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ London Gazette . No. 22694, HMSO, London, December 30, 1868, p. 6585 ( PDF , English).
  2. ↑ London Gazette . No. 23081, HMSO, London, March 9, 1866, p. 1702 ( PDF , English).
  3. ↑ London Gazette . No. 23395, HMSO, London, June 30, 1868, p. 3655 ( PDF , English).
  4. ↑ London Gazette . No. 23547, HMSO, London, October 19, 1869, p. 5617 ( PDF , English).
  5. ↑ London Gazette . No. 23553, HMSO, London, November 9, 1869, p. 5979 ( PDF , English).
  6. ↑ London Gazette . No. 23502, HMSO, London,. June 1869, p. 3146 ( PDF , English).
  7. ↑ The Glasgow Herald . No. 9288, October 9, 1869, p. 3 ( on Google ).
  8. ↑ People's and Schützenzeitung. No. 123, Innsbruck October 13, 1869, p. 594 ( on Google ).
  9. ↑ London Gazette . No. 23808, HMSO, London, December 19, 1871, p. 5687 ( PDF , English).
  10. ↑ London Gazette . No. 24064, HMSO, London, February 10, 1874, p. 631 ( PDF , English).
  11. ↑ London Gazette . No. 24124, HMSO, London, August 21, 1874, p. 4162 ( PDF , English).
predecessor Office successor
Dunbar Douglas Earl of Selkirk
1885-1886 		William Hamilton
personal data
SURNAME Douglas-Hamilton, Charles, 7th Earl of Selkirk
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Douglas-Hamilton, Charles George Archibald, 7th Earl of Selkirk; Hamilton, Lord Charles
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British nobleman and officer
DATE OF BIRTH May 18, 1847
DATE OF DEATH May 2, 1886