Hans Hamilton, 4th Baron HolmPatrick

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Hans James David Hamilton, 4th Baron HolmPatrick (born 15 March 1955) is a British peer and Labour politician.

[edit] Personal Details

Lord HolmPatrick is the son of the late James Hans Hamilton, 3rd Baron HolmPatrick (1928-1991) and Anne Loys Roche Brass. The 3rd Lord HolmPatrick was the son of Hans Wellesley Hamilton, 2nd Baron HolmPatrick (1886-1942) and Lady Edina Conyngham (1888-1964), daughter of Henry Francis Conyngham, 4th Marquess Conyngham (1857-1897). In turn, the 2nd Lord HolmPatrick was the son of Ion Trant Hamilton, 1st Baron HolmPatrick and Lady Victoria Alexandria Wellesley. She was a daughter of the courtier Major-General Lord Charles Wellesley. Her paternal grandfather was the great British general Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington. She was also the elder sister of the 3rd and 4th dukes. She was granted the rank of a duke's daughter in 1884. The first Lord HomPatrick was an MP and Irish civic leader.

In 1984 the future Lord HolmPatrick, then styled The Honourable Hans Hamilton married a certain G. Harding (that is the most description given in The Peerage), daughter of a K.J. Harding. The Peerage does not say whether they have any children.

[edit] Political career

Lord HolmPatrick was a Labour peer until 1999. In that year, the Labour Party itself removed from hereditary peers the right to sit in the House of Lords. About 10% of hereditary peers (92)were permitted to sit, elected by the whole House or by party. This would mean that the cream of the aristocracy would sit in the Lords. Lord HolmPatrick was not one of those 15 hereditary peers elected by the whole House nor one of those 2 peers elected by the Labour hereditary. In 2003 Lord HolmPatrick stood to be one of the Labour peers following the death of Michael Milner, 2nd Baron Milner of Leeds, but in the event he was defeated by Christopher Suenson-Taylor, 3rd Baron Grantchester.