Anne Hamilton, 3rd Duchess of Hamilton

Her Grace

The Duchess of Hamilton
Her Grace; The Duchess of Hamilton
	Portrait by David Scougall
Duchess of Hamilton
Tenure	1651–1698
Predecessor	William Hamilton
Successor	James Hamilton
Other titles	Marchioness of Clydesdale; Countess of Lanark; Countess of Arran and Cambridge; Lady of Aven and Innerdale;
Born	6 January 1631; Palace of Whitehall, London, England
Died	17 October 1716 (aged 85); Hamilton, South Lanarkshire, Scotland
Buried	Bent Cemetery, Hamilton
Noble family	House of Hamilton
Spouse(s)	William Douglas, 1st Earl of Selkirk
Issue	Lady Mary Hamilton; James Hamilton, 4th Duke of Hamilton; Lord William Hamilton; Lady Anna Hamilton; Catherine Murray, Duchess of Atholl; Charles Douglas, 2nd Earl of Selkirk; John Hamilton, 3rd Earl of Selkirk; George Hamilton, 1st Earl of Orkney; Susan Hay, Marchioness of Tweeddale; Margaret Maule, Countess of Panmure; Lady Anna Hamilton; Lord Basil Hamilton; Lord Archibald Hamilton;
Father	James Hamilton, 1st Duke of Hamilton
Mother	Lady Mary Feilding

Anne Hamilton, 3rd Duchess of Hamilton (6 January 1632^[1] – 17 October 1716) was a Scottish peeress.

The daughter of James Hamilton, 1st Duke of Hamilton and 3rd Marquess of Hamilton, Scottish General and premier peer of the realm, and Lady Mary Feilding, daughter of William Feilding, 1st Earl of Denbigh, and his wife, the former Lady Susan Villiers, a sister of George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham.

She was born at the Palace of Whitehall in London, where her mother was a Lady of the Bedchamber to Henrietta Maria of France, wife of King Charles I.

Her name is found as a shareholder in "A List of the Names of the Adventurers in the Bank of Scotland, February 4, 1697". Holding shares worth £8000 Scots, she was entitled to be elected as Governor.^[2]

^ G.E. Cokayne; with Vicary Gibbs, H.A. Doubleday, Geoffrey H. White, Duncan Warrand and Lord Howard de Walden, editors, The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct or Dormant, new ed., 13 volumes in 14 (1910-1959; reprint in 6 volumes, Gloucester, U.K.: Alan Sutton Publishing, 2000), volume VI, page 264.
^ Wall text from A Tale of Two Banks, Museum on the Mound, Edinburgh.

[1] G.E. Cokayne; with Vicary Gibbs, H.A. Doubleday, Geoffrey H. White, Duncan Warrand and Lord Howard de Walden, editors, The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain and the United Kingdom, Extant, Extinct or Dormant, new ed., 13 volumes in 14 (1910-1959; reprint in 6 volumes, Gloucester, U.K.: Alan Sutton Publishing, 2000), volume VI, page 264.

[2] Wall text from A Tale of Two Banks, Museum on the Mound, Edinburgh.

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