Sackville Hamilton

Sackville Hamilton PC (Ire) (14 March 1732 – 29 January 1818)[1] was an Anglo-Irish politician.

[2] His younger brother was Henry Hamilton, who served as royal Governor of Bermuda and Dominica.

[5] Hamilton entered the Irish House of Commons for St Johnstown (County Longford) in 1780 and sat for the constituency until 1783.

[1] He chose the latter and was a Member of Parliament for the constituency until 1795, resigning the seat to be Escheator of Munster, a notional 'office of profit under the crown'.

[10] Through his son Sackville, he was a grandfather of Sackville Deane Hamilton (1808–1878), who married Eleanor Sankey, and General Henry Hamilton (1812–1891), who married Isabella Freeman (a daughter of Joseph Deane Freeman).