Charles Hamilton, 5th Earl of Haddington

Charles Hamilton, 5th Earl of Haddington (1650-May 1685) was a Scottish nobleman.

Life

Known as Lord Binning from birth, he was born in 1650, the only son to survive infancy of John Hamilton, 4th Earl of Haddington and Lady Christian Lindsay.

Binning succeeded his father's titles in 1669. He did not involve himself actively in politics, but was broadly supportive of his kinsman the Duke of Hamilton's machinations with Lauderdale. He refused to be a signatory to the Scottish Test Act of 1681 which put him even further from public life.[1]

At Linton Bridge, near Prestonkirk, Haddingtonshire, Charles, fitted up for Gilbert Rule a meeting-house, which was indulged by the privy council on 18 December 1679. Next year, while Rule was visiting his niece, Mrs. Kennedy, in Edinburgh, he baptised her child in St. Giles's Church, after preaching a weekday lecture there, on the invitation of the minister, Archibald Turner, the Episcopal minister. For this offence Rule was brought before the privy council, and imprisoned on the Bass Rock.[2]

Haddington died in May 1685 at Tyninghame House, East Lothian.

Marriage and issue

Lord Haddington married Lady Margaret Leslie, daughter of John Leslie, 1st Duke of Rothes. Lady Margaret was heiress to her father's Earldom of Rothes, but not his Dukedom. In the terms of the marriage contract, to prevent the Rothes title dying out it was arranged that any firstborn son would assume the surname Leslie, and be heir to the Earldom of Rothes, and any second born son would be heir to the Earldom of Haddington. They had issue:[3]

gollark: I don't think the body thing makes much sense anyway, inasmuch as the genetic material in the fetus doesn't actually match exactly what either parent has but is some mixed-up combination of them.
gollark: That's a legal/ethical distinction rather than a scientific one.
gollark: It is the case that I contain genetic material from my parents. It doesn't have to be the case that, because of that, I'm considered part of their body or something.
gollark: Again, if you're going to be consistent about this, then children are half of their parents, which sounds unreasonable.
gollark: Why?

References

Notes
  1. Balfour Paul, vol iv, pp319-320
  2. Bryce, William Moir; Fleming, D. Hay (1912). History of the Old Greyfriars' Church Edinburgh. Edinburgh: William Green and Sons. p. 118. Retrieved 2 March 2019.
  3. Anderson, pp296-297

Sources
  • Anderson, J., Historical and genealogical memoirs of the House of Hamilton; with genealogical memoirs of the several branches of the family, Edinburgh 1825.
  • Balfour Paul, Sir J., Scots Peerage IX vols. Edinburgh 1904.
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