JAMES DOUGLAS (1658-1712), 4th duke of Hamilton and duke of Brandon (cr. 171I), eldest son of the preceding and of Duchess Anne, succeeded his mother, who resigned the dukedom to him in 1698. On Nov. 15, 1712 he fought the duel with Charles, Lord Mohun, narrated in Thackeray's Esmond, in which both the prin cipals were killed.
The title of Lord Hamilton and that of Viscount Hamilton, in the peerage of Great Britain, conferred on the 8th earl of Aber corn in 1786, are borne by the dukes of Abercorn, whose eldest son is usually styled by courtesy marquess of Hamilton, a title which was added to the other family honours when the 2nd mar quess of Abercorn was raised to the dukedom in 1868.
See John Anderson, The House of Hamilton (1825) ; Hamilton Papers, ed. J. Bain (2 vols., Edinburgh, 189o-92) ; Gilbert Burnet, Lives of lames and William, dukes of Hamilton (1677) ; The Hamilton Papers relative to 1638-165o, ed. S. R. Gardiner for the Camden Society (i88o) • G. E. C[okaynel, Complete Peerage (1887-98) ; an article by the Rev. J. Anderson in Sir J. B. Paul's edition of the Scots Peerage, vol. iv. (19o7) .