Lord Claud Hamilton (1889–1975)
{{Short description|British Army officer and courtier}}
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{{other people|Lord Claud Hamilton}}
{{Infobox person
| name = Lord Claud Hamilton
| honorific_suffix = {{postnominals|country=GBR|size=100%|GCVO|CMG|DSO}}
| image = Prince Alexander of Teck with his fellow officers, Lieutenant-Colonel Barry, Lieutenant Lord Claud Hamilton, Colonel and Prince Alexander at Nieuport, March 1915.jpg
| alt =
| caption = Hamilton with fellow officers, including Prince Alexander of Teck, in Nieuport, March 1915
| birth_date = {{birth date|1889|11|10|df=yes}}
| birth_place= Mayfair, London
| death_date = {{death date and age|1975|08|22|1889|11|10|df=yes}}
| death_place= Newbury, Berkshire
| father = James Hamilton
| mother = Mary Curzon-Howe
| relatives = James Hamilton (brother)
Arthur Hamilton (brother)
| spouse = {{marriage|Violet Newall|1933}}
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{{Infobox military person
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| rank = Captain
| branch = British Army
| branch_label = Service
| battles = World War I
| battles_label = Wars
| unit = Scots Guards
Grenadier Guards
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Lord Claud Nigel Hamilton {{postnominals|country=GBR|size=100%|GCVO|CMG|DSO}} (10 November 1889 – 22 August 1975) was a British Army officer and courtier. He was comptroller and treasurer to Queen Mary from 1936 until her death in 1953.{{cite news |title=Lord Claud Hamilton |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/750576770/?article=a424de43-d15e-421f-ac2a-0fbd31eb36f3&focus=0.5039507,0.73132646,0.61908805,0.8791848&xid=3355 |access-date=28 August 2024 |work=The Daily Telegraph |date=23 August 1975 |page=6}}
Family and education
File:Hampden House, 61 Green Street, Mayfair, June 2023.jpg]]
Lord Claud was born at Hampden House, 61 Green Street, Mayfair,{{cite news |title= Births |work=The Times |publisher=The Times Digital Archive |date=12 November 1889 |page= 1}} the seventh (but third surviving) son of James Hamilton, 2nd Duke of Abercorn and Lady Mary Anna Curzon-Howe. He was educated at Wellington College, Berkshire.{{Cite book |last=Gliddon |first=Gerald |url=https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/231975360 |title=The aristocracy and the Great War |publisher=Gliddon Books |year=2002 |isbn=978-0-947893-35-4 |location=Norwich |pages=452 |language=English |oclc=231975360}}
On 11 July 1933, he married Violet Ruby Newall (née Ashton), mother of Pamela Newall (later Baroness Sharples).{{cite news |title=Baroness Sharples, made lively contributions to politics for decades after her husband’s murder in Bermuda – obituary |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2022/05/24/baroness-sharples-politician-elevated-peerage-following-assassination/ |access-date=28 August 2024 |work=The Daily Telegraph |date=24 May 2022}} They had no children.
Career
=Army=
In 1907, he joined the 3rd Battalion (Lothian Regiment) of the Scots Guards as a Second Lieutenant,{{London Gazette |date=9 December 1907 |issue= 28087| page= 8610 |supp=y}} and transferred to the Grenadier Guards in 1909, having been promoted to the rank of Captain the previous year.{{London Gazette |date=23 February 1909 |issue=28227 | page=1450 |endpage= |supp=}} During the First World War, he was mentioned in despatches in 1914 for having "commanded a machine-gun for five days and nights without relief, with great effect and under severe fire."{{London Gazette |date=1 December 1914 |issue= 28992| page= 10187}}
The same year, he was made a Companion of the Distinguished Service Order. In 1916, he was made an MVO as courtier to the Prince of Wales,{{Edinburgh Gazette |date= 5 June 1916|issue= 12947| page= 988|endpage= |supp=}} and in 1918 he became an Officer of the Order of the Crown of Italy{{London Gazette |date=22 March 1918 |issue= 30595| page= 3726 |supp=y}} and was awarded the Croix de Guerre.{{London Gazette |date=16 April 1918 |issue= 30638| page=4717 |endpage= |supp=y}}
=Royal household=
In 1919, Lord Claud was employed as an equerry to Edward, Prince of Wales and made a CMG in 1920 for services to the Prince on his overseas visits.{{London Gazette |date=15 October 1920 |issue= 32086| page= 9986}}
In 1921, Hamilton was promoted as Deputy Master of the Household,{{London Gazette |date=1 February 1921 |issue= 32212| page= 855}} made an Extra Equerry to King George V a year later{{London Gazette |date=19 May 1922 |issue=32705 | page= 3868}} and an Equerry in 1924.{{London Gazette |date= 21 March 1924 |issue=32920 | page= 2423}}
In 1932, he was promoted to a CVO,{{London Gazette |date= 30 December 1932 |issue=33898 | page=7 |endpage= |supp=y}} and to a GCVO in 1937.{{London Gazette |date=29 January 1937 |issue= 34365| page=693 |supp=y}}
In 1936, he was one of the escorts of the gun carriage at the King's funeral{{London Gazette |date=29 April 1936 |issue=34279 | page=2771 |supp=y}} and became Queen Mary's Comptroller, Treasurer and Extra Equerry that year. He served in these offices until her death in 1953, when he became an Extra Equerry to Elizabeth II until his own death in 1975 aged 85.{{London Gazette |date= 6 October 1953|issue=39981 | page= 5318}}
References
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External links
- {{cite TIWW |article=Hamilton, Capt. Lord Claud Nigel |page=101 }}
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Category:Younger sons of dukes
Category:Companions of the Order of St Michael and St George
Category:Companions of the Distinguished Service Order
Category:Scots Guards officers
Category:Grenadier Guards officers
Category:British Army personnel of World War I
Category:Knights Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order