Charles Hamilton, Lord Binning (1697 – 27 December 1732),[1] was a Scottish nobleman, politician and poet.
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.
[3] Lord Binning had an important influence on the decision of his father-in-law, George Baillie of Jerviswood, to build Mellerstain House, and he took an active interest in the design of its policies.
[4] In 1731, and in increasingly frail health, Lord Binning, accompanied by the Baillie family, left Britain for the continent, and settled in Naples, where he died on 27 December 1732.