Hamilton baronets of West Port (1627)

The Hamilton baronetcy, of West Port, was created in the Baronetage of Nova Scotia in 1627 for the Hon.

He was the third son of James Hamilton, 1st Earl of Abercorn; after the death of Charles I of England, he represented Henrietta Maria at the papal curia, around 1660.

[5] As well as religious and political matters, Charles I had given Hamilton some favours to ask of Pope Urban VIII, concerning the children of his sister Elizabeth Stuart, Queen of Bohemia.

[6] In a preliminary meeting with Cardinal Barberini, Hamilton brought up four points, including also the case of John Molle, tutor to William Cecil, 16th Baron Ros and Oliver St John in Florence in 1607, where he was detained by the Inquisition for speaking against the Catholic religion, and was still held.

)[7] In 1638 Hamilton reported from Rome to Windebank the rumours that Godfrey Goodman, Bishop of Gloucester, had converted to Catholicism.