Charles Hamilton, 5th Earl of Abercorn (died 1701) succeeded his brother who had been attainted as a Jacobite and, having conformed to the established religion, could get the attainder reversed.
Charles's mother was Irish and a rich heiress, the only child of Christopher Fagan of Feltrim, County Dublin.
The family's usual residence was Kenure House in Rush near Dublin, where he and his siblings were probably born and where his father died.
[1] Charles's father died on 14 April 1668 at Kenure House[1] and his elder brother, Claud, succeeded as the 5th Baron of Strabane.
[3] However, in August 1691, when Charles was about 26, Claud was killed in a sea-fight when a Dutch privateer attacked the ship that should have brought him from Limerick to France.
Charles and Catherine had an only child: In 1697 Abercorn signed the Association, an oath of loyalty King William and Queen Mary that had been introduced in reaction to the Jacobite assassination plot of 1696.
His widow died on 24 May 1723 in Pall Mall, London, and was buried in the Richmond vault of the Henry VII Chapel at Westminster Abbey.