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Charles Hamilton, styled The Honourable from birth, was a British politician. He was a younger son of James Hamilton, 6th Earl of Abercorn. He represented Strabane in the Irish House of Commons between 1727 and 1760. He sat also for Truro in the British House of Commons from 1741 to 1747. He is most remembered as the creator of Painshill Park near Cobham in Surrey.