Ion Hamilton, 1st Baron HolmPatrick

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Ion Trant Hamilton, 1st Baron HolmPatrick PC (14 July 183910 March 1898), was an Anglo-Irish Member of Parliament.

HolmPatrick was the son of James Hans Hamilton and Caroline Trant. He succeeded his father as Member of Parliament for County Dublin in 1863, a seat he held until 1885. He was admitted to the Irish Privy Council in 1887 and also served as Lord Lieutenant of County Dublin from 1892 to 1898. In 1897 he was raised to the peerage as Baron HolmPatrick, of HolmPatrick in the County of Dublin.

Lord HolmPatrick married Lady Victoria Alexandrina Wellesley, daughter of Major-General Lord Charles Wellesley and granddaughter of Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington, in 1877. He died in March 1898, aged 58, and was succeeded in the barony by his only son Hans. Lady HolmPatrick died in 1933.


Parliament of the United Kingdom
Preceded by
Thomas Edward Taylor
James Hans Hamilton
Member of Parliament for County Dublin
with Thomas Edward Taylor 1863–1883
Edward Robert King-Harman 1883–1885

1863–1885
Succeeded by
Constituency abolished
Honorary titles
Preceded by
The Viscount Monck
Lord Lieutenant of Dublin
1892–1898
Succeeded by
The Earl of Meath
Peerage of the United Kingdom
New creation Baron HolmPatrick
1897–1898
Succeeded by
Hans Wellesley Hamilton

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