William Hamilton
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Scottish Jacobite poet
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, William Hamilton was a Scottish poet associated with the Jacobite movement. Life Hamilton was born at the family seat in Ecclesmachan, West Lothian. He was the second son of James Hamilton of Bangour, advocate, whose grandfather, James, second son of John Hamilton of Little Earnock, Lanarkshire, founded the Bangour family. On the death of his elder brother, without heir, in 1750, Hamilton succeeded to the estate.
