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- ↑ "HAMILTON, Sir James, 2nd Bt. (1682-1750), of Rosehall, Lanark. | History of Parliament Online". www.historyofparliamentonline.org. Retrieved 15 September 2018.
- ↑ "Hamilton, Ian Robertson, (born 13 Sept. 1925), QC (Scot.) 1980", Who's Who, Oxford University Press, 1 December 2007, doi:10.1093/ww/9780199540884.013.18779