Charles Hamilton, Lord Binning
Charles Hamilton, Lord Binning was a Scottish nobleman, politician and poet.Life
The son of Thomas Hamilton, 6th Earl of Haddington and Helen Hope, he used the courtesy title Lord Binning from birth.
Lord Binning was present with his father at the Battle of Sheriffmuir, in 1715. From 1718 until his death he held office as Knight Marischal, an office that had been vacant since the battle following the forfeiture of the Jacobite, Earl of Kintore
He was elected at the 1722 general election as a Member of Parliament for borough of St Germans in Cornwall, and held the seat until the 1727 general election.
In 1731, and in increasingly frail health, Lord Binning, left Britain for the continent, and settled in Naples, where he died on 27 December 1732.Marriage and issue
On 3 September 1717, he married Rachel Baillie, the daughter of George Baillie of Jerviswoode and Mellerstain and Lady Grisell Baillie. His wife outlived Binning for 41 years, dying at Mellerstain in 1773.
