John Hamilton

John Hamilton (1651 or 1552 – 1691), was an Irish army officer of Scottish and Irish origin, who fought in the Williamite war in Ireland on the side of the deposed James II. He died from wounds received at the Battle of Aughrim. Birth and origins John Hamilton was probably born in 1651 or 1552 in Caen, France, the sixth and youngest son of George Hamilton and his wife, Mary Butler. His family had fled Ireland early that year during the Cromwellian conquest. His father was Scottish, the fourth son of James Hamilton, 1st Earl of Abercorn, a faithful supporter of James Butler, Marquess of Ormond and lord lieutenant of Ireland, during the Irish Confederate Wars and the Cromwellian conquest of Ireland, and a would-be baronet. John's mother was Irish, the third daughter of Thomas Butler, Viscount Thurles (courtesy title), who predeceased his father, Walter Butler, 11th Earl of Ormond, and therefore never succeeded to the earldom. She also was a sister of James Butler, marquess of Ormond and Lord Lieutenant of Ireland. Her family, the Butlers, were Old English.