Family
Nisbet-Hamilton married Lady Mary, daughter of General Thomas Bruce, 7th Earl of Elgin and Mary, daughter and heiress of William Hamilton Nisbet, in 1828. They had one daughter. Lady Mary died in December 1883. Nisbet-Hamilton survived her by four years and died in June 1887.
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