Ireland
In 1781, George Hamilton was born at Hamwood House, in County Meath, Ireland. He was the third son of Charles Hamilton (d. 1818), who built Hamwood, and his wife Elizabeth, daughter of Crewe Chetwood of Woodbrook, Queen's County. His family were descended from Sir James Hamilton of Finnart and had come to Ireland during the reign of James I in the Plantations of Ireland. He was a nephew of the Rt. Rev. Hugh Hamilton, Bishop of Ossory, and his first cousin, Rev. George Hamilton of Hampton Hall, Co. Dublin, was the father of George Alexander Hamilton.
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