John d'Henin Hamilton, 3rd Baron Hamilton of Dalzell
John d'Henin Hamilton, 3rd Baron Hamilton of Dalzell, GCVO, MC, was Lord Lieutenant of Surrey from 12 March 1973 until 2 May 1986.
Educated at Eton College and the Royal Military College, Sandhurst, Hamilton was commissioned as an officer into the Coldstream Guards in 1931. In 1935 he married Rosemary Coke and acquired Beckington Castle, Somerset. Their children included James Leslie Hamilton, later the fourth Baron, and Archie, born at Beckington in 1941,. later a Conservative politician and life peer.
During the Second World War, Hamilton saw active service with his regiment's 5th Battalion, which formed part of the Guards Armoured Division, in the Battle of Normandy, and was injured there on 18 July 1944. After the end of the war, he sold his house at Beckington to H. F. Bailey, who re-established Ravenscroft School there, and moved to Snowdenham House, Bramley, near Guildford.
In the 1960s, Hamilton was President of the National Association of Probation Officers. In 1961, he was with Queen Elizabeth II at Kingston on Thames as Vice Lord Lieutenant for Surrey, and from 1973 to 1986 was Lord-Lieutenant of Surrey. He was appointed a Knight Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order in the 1987 New Year Honours.
Lady Hamilton's sister Celia was the grandmother of Jack Brooksbank, who married the Queen's granddaughter Princess Eugenie in 2018.
