Lord Basil Hamilton (1671 – 27 August 1701) was a Scottish aristocrat who drowned trying to save his servant.
[2] On 27 August 1701, while traveling with his brother and some friends, they found the Minnick Water at Larg in Galloway in high flood.
[3] Together, they were the parents of four children:[1] After Lord Basil's death on 27 August 1701, he was succeeded in his estates by his eldest son William.
As William died unmarried before November 1703, the Baldoon estate passed to his second son, Basil, who was returned as MP for Kirkcudbright in 1741.
[1] Through his second son Basil, he was posthumously a grandfather of Dunbar Hamilton, who inherited the earldom of Selkirk in 1744.