Rosalind Hamilton, Duchess of Abercorn

Her Grace The Duchess of Abercorn DBE
The Duchess of Abercorn in 1914.
Born	26 February 1869 (1869-02-26)
Died	18 January 1958 (1958-01-19) (aged 88)
Spouse(s)	James Hamilton, Marquess of Hamilton (m. 1884-1953; his death)
Children	5
Parents	Charles George Bingham, 4th Earl of Lucan (father) Lady Cecilia Catherine Gordon-Lennox (mother)

Lady Rosalind Cecilia Caroline Hamilton, DBE (26 February 1869 – 18 January 1958) was a British aristocrat and the Duchess of Abercorn by marriage. She was a great-grandmother of Diana, Princess of Wales.

Biography

She was born on 26 February 1869 to Charles George Bingham, 4th Earl of Lucan and Lady Cecilia Catherine Gordon-Lennox.

She married, James Hamilton, Marquess of Hamilton, eldest son of James Hamilton, 2nd Duke of Abercorn, on 1 November 1894 at St. Paul's Church, Knightsbridge.

They had five children:

• Lady Mary Cecilia Rhodesia Hamilton (1896–1984), who married twice, firstly in 1917 Capt/Maj. Robert Orlando Rudolph Kenyon-Slaney (1892–1965), with whom she divorced in 1930, and secondly, in 1930, to Sir John Gilmour, 2nd Baronet. With her first husband she had two sons and a daughter, and with her second husband one son.
• Lady Cynthia Elinor Beatrix Hamilton (1897–1972), who married in 1919 to Albert Edward John Spencer, 7th Earl Spencer (1892–1975). They had a son and two daughters. By their son they became grandparents of Diana, Princess of Wales.
• Lady Katherine Hamilton (1900–1985), who married in 1930 Lt-Col. Sir Reginald Henry Seymour (1878–1938), a descendant of the 1st Marquess of Hertford. She was a bridesmaid at the wedding of Prince Albert, Duke of York, and Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon on 3 May 1923.^[1]
• Sir James Edward Hamilton, 4th Duke of Abercorn (1904–1979)
• Lord Claud David Hamilton (1907–1968), who worked as a barrister in the Inner Temple, and who in 1946 married Genesta Mary Heath; he was her third husband and the union was childless.

Honours

Rosalind, Duchess of Abercorn was invested as a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1936.^[2]

She was awarded the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws (LLD) by Queen's University, Belfast, County Antrim, Northern Ireland, in 1944.^[2] She died in 1958, aged 88.

Ancestry

Titles

• The Honourable Rosalind Cecilia Caroline Bingham (1869–1888)
• Lady Rosalind Cecilia Caroline Bingham (1888–1894)
• Marchioness of Hamilton (1894–1913)
• Her Grace The Duchess of Abercorn (1913–1953)
• Her Grace The Dowager Duchess of Abercorn (1953–1958)

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