Lt.-Gen. Frederick Hamilton PC JP (died 26 March 1732) was a Scottish born Irish general and politician who served in the Parliament of Ireland.
[1] His father was hanged in 1651 at Stirling, Scotland, for giving information to the English which led to the capture of Earl of Eglinton.
[2] From 1677, he was captain of an independent company in Charles II's Irish army, active against tories in the district of Lough Erne.
[2] His heirs were his wife's nephews, Marcus Beresford, 1st Earl of Tyrone; and his brother George's grandson, Frederick Carey.
[3] Hamilton was said to be the inspiration for Sir Walter Scott's character Morton of Milnewood in his 1816 tale of Old Mortality.