During his Parliamentary career he served as Parliamentary Private Secretary (PPS) to the Secretary of State for Energy (1979–81) and Transport (1981–82). From 1982 to 1984,he was Assistant Conservative Whip. In 1984 he became Lord Commissioner to HM Treasury,a position he held until 1986. From 1986 to 1987,Hamilton was Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State at the Ministry of Defence.
He also served as PPS to Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher (1987–88),Minister of State,Ministry of Defence (Armed Forces Minister,1988–93) and was created a Privy Councillor in 1991. He was Chairman of the 1922 Committee from 1997 to 2001.
He was knighted in 1994.[3] On 13 May 2005 it was announced that he would be created a life peer,and the peerage was gazetted on 17 June 2005 as Baron Hamilton of Epsom,of West Anstey in the County of Devon.[4]
Since 2015,he has sat on the Joint Committee for the National Security Strategy.
In March 2025,Hamilton made remarks during a House of Lords debate on the Holocaust Memorial and Learning Centre Bill that drew criticism;he later withdrew the comments and apologised.[5][6]
Personal life
Hamilton is a bridge player. He is a member of the Lords bridge team and the All Party Parliamentary Bridge Group.
In 1968,he married Anne Catherine Napier (born 1940),daughter of the late Commander Trevylyan Michael Napier DSC,RN. (1901–30 August 1940) and poet and author Priscilla Hayter (1908–98),who produced books about Napier ancestors,poetry and an autobiography,A Late Beginner. Anne is a sculptor and painter. The couple have three daughters and several grandchildren.[citation needed]
In 2006,their youngest daughter Alice Rose Alethea Hamilton married Dominic Johnson,financier,hedge fund manager,and government minister.[7]
Hamilton sits in the House of Lords,and is a trustee of Supporting Wounded Veterans[8] as well as being the president of the Lest We Forget Association.
Arms
Coat of arms of Archie Hamilton
Coronet
Coronet of a baron
Crest
An antelope Proper armed and unguled Or.
Escutcheon
Gules an annulet Or between three cinquefoils Ermine pierced of the field a bordure of the second.
Supporters
Dexter a wildman Proper wreathed about the head and waist with laurel Proper and holding over the dexter shoulder a club Or sinister an antelope as matriculated in June 2008 in Scotland Proper armed unguled and gorged with a coronet attached thereto a chain reflexed over the back Or.
↑Debrett's peerage & baronetage: comprises information concerning the royal family, the peerage and baronetage (147thed.). Richmond, Surrey [England]: Debrett's. 2012. p.638. ISBN9781870520805.
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