Gustavus Hamilton, 2nd Viscount Boyne

The Viscount Boyne
The Right Honourable; The Viscount Boyne; PC (Ire)
	Portrait of Hamilton in Masquerade Costume, by Rosalba Carriera, c. 1730–1731.
Member of Parliament for; Newport (Isle of Wight)
	In office; 1736–1741 Serving with George Huxley
Preceded by	William Fortescue; George Huxley
Succeeded by	Anthony Chute; Monoux Cope
Personal details
Born	1710
Died	18 April 1746 (aged 35–36)
Relations	Gustavus Hamilton, 1st Viscount Boyne (grandfather)
Parents	Frederick Hamilton; Sophia Hamilton
Education	Westminster School

Gustavus Hamilton, 2nd Viscount Boyne PC (Ire) (1710–1746) was an Irish peer and politician and an enthusiastic admirer of Italy and the Carnival of Venice.

Birth and origins

Gustavus was born in 1710, probably in Ireland. He was the eldest son of Frederick Hamilton and his wife Sophia Hamilton. His father was from a cadet branch of the Abercorns, who in turn descended from the Scottish Clan Hamilton. He was the eldest son of Gustavus Hamilton, 1st Viscount Boyne but stayed heir apparent all his life. Gustavus's mother was a daughter of James Hamilton.[1] His uncles were Gustavus Hamilton and Henry Hamilton.[1]

After his father's death in 1715, he was taken to London by his mother and was educated at Westminster School.[2]

Career

In 1723, he succeeded his grandfather as viscount. In 1736, Lord Boyne, as he now was, was sworn of the Privy Council of Ireland. In the year, he also entered the British House of Commons for Newport, Isle of Wight, and sat as Member of Parliament for the constituency until 1741.

In 1737, he was appointed a Commissioner of the Irish Revenue and held this post until his death in 1746.[2]

Personal life

Boyne and friends (Sir Francis Dashwood, the Earl of Carlisle and Lord Middlesex) in a ship's cabin while sailing from Venice to Lisbon, by Bartolomeo Nazari, c. 1731–1732.

From January to March 1730, Boyne and Edward Walpole were in Venice enjoying the pleasures of the Carnival of Venice. Immediately after their trip, Walpole, the younger son of Sir Robert Walpole, the Prime Minister of Great Britain, entered Parliament as Member for Lostwithiel in a by-election on 29 April 1730, following the death of Sir Edward Knatchbull. Boyne, however, travelled to Venice again the following winter.[3]

In 1734, Lord Boyne was a founder-member of the Society of Dilettanti, a group of Englishmen who made the Grand Tour and met to discuss, and to exert their influence on, matters of taste in London. Other members of the Society included his "particular friend, the notorious rake" Francis Dashwood, 11th Baron le Despencer.[4]

Boyne died unmarried on 18 April 1746 and was buried at Stackallen. His cousin Frederick Hamilton succeeded to the viscountcy.[1]

Family tree

Gustavus Hamilton with parents, and other selected relatives. He never married.

Frederick
1590–1647

Sidney
Vaughan

Christiana
b. c. 1629

Frederick
d. bef. 1646

James of
Manor-
hamilton
d. 1652

Gustavus
1st
Viscount
1642–1723

Elizabeth
Brooke
d. 1721

Frederick
c. 1663 –
1715

Sophia
Hamilton
d. 1748

Gustavus
c. 1685 –
1735

Dorothea
Bellew

Henry
c. 1692 –
1743

Gustavus
2nd
Viscount
1710–1746

Frederick
3rd
Viscount
1718–1772

Richard
4th
Viscount
1724–1789

Georgiana
Bury

Gustavus
5th
Viscount
1749–1816

Martha
Somerville

Legend

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Gustavus
Hamilton

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Viscounts
Boyne

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References

Debrett, John (1828). Debrett's Peerage of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. vol. II (17th ed.). London: G. Woodfall. p. 765.
Lodge, John (1789). Mervyn Archdall (ed.). The Peerage of Ireland or A Genealogical History of the Present Nobility of that Kingdom. vol. V. Dublin: James Moore. p. 178.
"Gustavus Hamilton (1710–1746), Second Viscount Boyne, in Masquerade Costume". www.metmuseum.org. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Retrieved 21 August 2019.
"Portrait of Gustavus Hamilton, 2nd Viscount Boyne". www.philamuseum.org. Philadelphia Museum of Art. Retrieved 21 August 2019.

External links

Parliament of Great Britain
Preceded by William Fortescue George Huxley	Member of Parliament for Newport (Isle of Wight) 1736–1741 With: George Huxley	Succeeded by Anthony Chute Monoux Cope
Peerage of Ireland
Preceded by Gustavus Hamilton	Viscount Boyne 1723–1746	Succeeded by Frederick Hamilton

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[Debrett-1] Debrett, John (1828). Debrett's Peerage of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland. vol. II (17th ed.). London: G. Woodfall. p. 765.

[Lodge-2] Lodge, John (1789). Mervyn Archdall (ed.). The Peerage of Ireland or A Genealogical History of the Present Nobility of that Kingdom. vol. V. Dublin: James Moore. p. 178.

[metmuseum-3] "Gustavus Hamilton (1710–1746), Second Viscount Boyne, in Masquerade Costume". www.metmuseum.org. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Retrieved 21 August 2019.

[philamuseum-4] "Portrait of Gustavus Hamilton, 2nd Viscount Boyne". www.philamuseum.org. Philadelphia Museum of Art. Retrieved 21 August 2019.