LORDS PAISLEY, LORDS ABERCORN, EARLS OF ABERCORN, LORDS STRABANE, VIS• COUNTS STRABANE, VISCOUNTS HAMILTON, MARQUISES OF ABERCORN, DUKE OF ABER conic, etc.-Lord Claud Hamilton, fourth son of the first duke of Chatelherault, was appointed commendator of the abbey of Paisley i11 1553, created lord Paisley in 1587, and died in 1622. During his life, his eldest son, James, was made lord Abercorn in 1603, and earl of Abercorn in 1606. He had large grants of lands in Ulster; and dying in 1618, was succeeded by his eldest son, James, who in 1616 had been created lord Strabane in the Irish peerage. The sixth earl of Abercorn was, in 1701, created viscount Strabane in the peerage of Ireland. The eighth earl of Abercorn, then 011C of the 10 Scottish representa tive peers, was, in 1786, created viscount Hamilton, in the peerage of Great Britain; when the house of lords found, by a vote of 52 to 38, that a peer of Scotland who had been created a peer c) Great Britain, could not pit in parliathes!604ApiVetitative of the peerage of Scotland. His nephew, the ninth earl of Abercorn, was, in 1790, created marquis of Abercorn. It was ruled in his case, by the house of lords, in 1793, that a peer of Scotland, who had been created a peer of Great Britain, was entitled to vote in the election of the Scottish representative peers. On the death of the second duke of
Hamilton in 1651, the second earl of Abercorn had claimed the male representation of the house of Hamilton; and in 1861, the second marquis and tenth earl of Abereorn (created duke of Abercorn in 1868); was served heir-male of the first duke of Chatel herault, in the sheriff court of chancery at Edinburgh, under protest by the duke of Hamilton, Brandon, and Chatelherault. The duke of Abereorn is one of three peers who hold peerages in Scotland, iu Ireland. and in Great Britain; the others being the marquis of Hastings (earl of Loudoun iu Scotland, lord Grey de Ruthyn, etc. in Eng- land, earl of Moira iu Ireland, lord Rawdou in Great Britain); and the earl of Vernlain (lord Forrester of Corstorphine in Scotland, viscount Grimstone in Ireland, lord Vernlam iu Great Britain). The house of Abercorn gave birth, in 1646, to Anthony Hamilton (q.v.), the author of the charming ltemoires du Conde de Grumont, He was the grand son of the first earl of Abercorn.