Hans Hamilton, 4th Baron HolmPatrick

The Right Honourable The Lord HolmPatrick
Member of the House of Lords
Lord Temporal
as a hereditary peer 15 February 1991 – 11 November 1999
Preceded by	The 2nd Baron HolmPatrick
Succeeded by	Seat abolished
Personal details
Born	Hans James David Hamilton 15 March 1955
Died	21 March 2024(2024-03-21) (aged 69)
Political party	Conservative

Hans James David Hamilton, 4th Baron HolmPatrick (15 March 1955 – 21 March 2024), was a British hereditary peer and Conservative politician.

Background

Lord HolmPatrick was the son of the late James Hans Hamilton, 3rd Baron HolmPatrick (1928–1991), and Anne Loys Roche Brass. The 3rd Lord HolmPatrick was the son of Hans Hamilton, 2nd Baron HolmPatrick (1886–1942), and Lady Edina Conyngham (1888–1964), daughter of Henry Conyngham, 4th Marquess Conyngham (1857–1897). In turn, the 2nd Lord HolmPatrick was the son of Ion Trant Hamilton, 1st Baron HolmPatrick, and Lady Victoria Alexandria Wellesley. She was a daughter of the courtier Major-General Lord Charles Wellesley. Her paternal grandfather was the great British general Arthur Wellesley, 1st Duke of Wellington. She was also the elder sister of the 3rd and 4th Duke. She was granted the rank of a duke's daughter in 1884. The first Lord HolmPatrick was an MP and Irish civic leader.

The future Lord HolmPatrick married Gill Francesca Anne du Feu, the daughter of Squadron Leader Kenneth James (Toby) Harding, on 19 July 1984. Their son, James Hans Stephen Hamilton (born 6 October 1982), was ineligible to succeed his father in the barony.

Lord HolmPatrick died on 21 March 2024, at the age of 69.

Political career

Lord HolmPatrick was a Conservative peer until 1999, when most of the hereditary peers were removed from the House of Lords by the House of Lords Act 1999. Lord HolmPatrick was not one of those 15 hereditary peers elected by the whole House nor one of those elected by the Conservative hereditary.

Coat of arms of Hans Hamilton, 4th Baron HolmPatrick

Crest A demi-antelope Argent armed and unguled Or charged with a mullet Gules holding between the hoofs a human heart as in the arms. Escutcheon Gules a mullet Argent between three cinquefoils pierced Ermine on a chief Or a heart of the first. Supporters Dexter an antelope Argent attired Or sinister a lion Gules each having pendant from a collar flory counter-flory Or a shield Ermine charged with a heart Gules. Motto Qualis Ab Incepto

Sources

• Mosley, Charles, ed., Burke's Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage, 107th edition, London (2004) p. 1947.