Malcolm Hamilton (bishop)

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Malcolm Hamilton (died 1629) was a Scotsman who was the Church of Ireland Archbishop of Cashel from 1623 to 1629.

He was Rector of Devenish, before being appointed Chancellor of Down in 1612.^[1] He was consecrated archbishop of Cashel at Drogheda by Archbishop Christopher Hampton of Armagh on 29 June 1623.^[2]^[3] He died of an unknown infectious disease on 25 April 1629 and was buried in the cathedral at the Rock of Cashel in County Tipperary.^[2]

He had Monea Castle built on his inherited lands in Fermanagh, starting in 1616, completed about 1618, and a bawn added in 1622.^[4]

Family

One of the sons of his first marriage to Mary Wilkie of Sachtonhill was Hugh Hamilton, 1st Viscount of Glenawly, a soldier in Swedish service, who in Sweden was created baron of Deserf.^{[ citation needed ]}

Lewis Hamilton was the son of his second marriage, and he also was in Swedish service and was elevated there to baronial rank. Through him, colonel, governor Gustav Hamilton (1650s–1691) was Malcolm's grandson.^{[ citation needed ]}

Captain John Hamilton of Monea was Malcolm's younger son of his first marriage. His sons, Malcolm and Hugo, went into Swedish service in 1655 and were, in 1689, created barons in the peerage of Sweden.^{[ citation needed ]}

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References

↑ Cotton, Henry (1849). The Succession of the Prelates and Members of the Cathedral Bodies of Ireland. Fasti ecclesiae Hiberniae. Vol. 3, The Province of Ulster. Dublin: Hodges and Smith. p. 235.
1 2 Cotton, Henry (1851). The Succession of the Prelates and Members of the Cathedral Bodies of Ireland. Fasti ecclesiae Hiberniae. Vol. 1, The Province of Munster (2nd Edition, corrected and enlarged ed.). Dublin: Hodges and Smith. p. 13.
↑ Fryde, E. B.; Greenway, D. E.; Porter, S.; Roy, I. (1986). Handbook of British Chronology (3rd ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. p. 381. ISBN 0-521-56350-X.
↑ "Monea Castle" (PDF). Fermanagh and Omagh District Castle. 16 October 2022. Retrieved 16 October 2022.

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[fastihibvol3-1] Cotton, Henry (1849). The Succession of the Prelates and Members of the Cathedral Bodies of Ireland. Fasti ecclesiae Hiberniae. Vol. 3, The Province of Ulster. Dublin: Hodges and Smith. p. 235.

[fastihibvol1-2] 1 2 Cotton, Henry (1851). The Succession of the Prelates and Members of the Cathedral Bodies of Ireland. Fasti ecclesiae Hiberniae. Vol. 1, The Province of Munster (2nd Edition, corrected and enlarged ed.). Dublin: Hodges and Smith. p. 13.

[HBOBC-3] Fryde, E. B.; Greenway, D. E.; Porter, S.; Roy, I. (1986). Handbook of British Chronology (3rd ed.). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. p. 381. ISBN 0-521-56350-X.

[4] "Monea Castle" (PDF). Fermanagh and Omagh District Castle. 16 October 2022. Retrieved 16 October 2022.

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