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This it is an interesting and complete article of Maria Cheek Santana on the Hamilton Family, published the 24 of May of the 2003 in the supplement "Press" of the newspaper "the Day" of Santa Cruz de Tenerife.
The Hamilton family, of British origin, was based in the Canary Islands from year 1819. First of this last name that arrived at the Islands was Lewis Gellie Hamilton, who came to work in the company Gilbert Stuart Bruce, of that with time one would become partner. On 1837 she founded the Company Brushes, Hamilton and Co, that was dissolved in 1878, seven years later, in 1885, she is created under the denomination of Hamilton and Compañi'a - name that still shows this company at the present time.
Lewis Gellie Hamilton had been born in 1798 in the Scottish locality of Greenock, in the county of Renfrew, in the family conformed by John Hamilton and Isabella Gellie whose father was the Captain Lewis Gellie, being as well grandson of Archibald Hamilton and Agnes Hyndman. This branch was descending direct, by this paternal line, of the monarch James II of Scotland, that would be the ninth great-grandfather of Lewis, to the salary newlywed the daughter of that king, princess Mary Stewart, with James Hamilton, first Lord Hamilton de Cadzow. Concretely, Lewis Gellie Hamilton is eighth grandson of James, first Count of Arran, one of the children of the mentioned Lord.
James Hamilton was born towards 1415, contracting first nuptials in 1440 with Euphemia Graham, countess of Strathearn, and, when enviudar, he married in 1474 with Princess Mary Stewart, daughter of king James II of Scotland and Marie D'Egmont. This marriage had like fruit three children: David, James and Elizabeth Hamilton. Once layout, to approximately, the original trunk from which comes island the Hamilton family, we happen to study to the different figures that we have mentioned.
Sir William Hamilton, British diplomat, archaeologist and vulcanólogo born in Scotland in 1730, whose collection of antiques acquired in the exploration that carried out in Pompeya was sold to the British Museum in 1772, were ambassador in Naples and author, between 1774 and 1800, of several works of which étrusques, greques ET romaines (1766-67) and Mount Vesuvius emphasize Antiquités (1772). Sir William, fourth son of Lord Archibald Hamilton, married, in 1758, with Catherine Barlow - daughter of the English parliamentarian Hugh Barlow -, and after enviudar, it contracted marriage with Emily Lyon in 1791, which later would happen to historical annals through its loving relation with Lord Horacio Nelson. To these biographical details we must add previously that Sir William was descending direct of Elizabeth Hamilton, already mentioned, which would turn to Lord Hamilton the seventh great-grandfather of Sir William Hamilton and eighth great-grandfather of Lewis Gellie Hamilton. This way, Sir William appears like eighth uncle of Lewis Gellie, and its wife, Emma Hamilton, eighth policy of the own Lewis would be aunt, circumstance that does not stop being quite surprising knowing the entailment of which outside its lover with the history of the island of Tenerife.
Emma Hamilton, as a single person Emily Lyon, was born in 1765 in Nesse, Great Neston, County of Cheshire, England daughter of Henry Lyon, blacksmith of profession and Mary Kidd, passed an adolescence and first maturity under the pretended name of Emma Hart, immersed in an excessive and lujuriosa life in London. Well-known lover of the aristocrat Charles Greville, this one sent it to Naples with his uncle Sir William Hamilton, where Emma became dancer, who delighted to the guests of Sir William with dances inspired by classic elements, Goethe that in an occasion was watching of its dances wrote "Its putting in scene is not looked like anything of which I have seen previously, express She a variety of wonderful transformations, a pose after another one without rest". In 1791 one please married with Sir William, happening to be Lady Emma Hamilton and gaining Reina Maria Carolina of Naples. The intimate relation with admiral Nelson began in 1798, and after the return from both to England, in January of 1801 had like fruit a daughter, of Horacia name. Sir William falls ill and in 1803 it passes away leaving him a pension annual of 800 pounds. In 1805 admiral Nelson passes away in the battle of Trafalgar. In a codicil of its testament, Nelson asks the British government who provides it in his absence, which did not happen, and to the death of the English hero Emma it declares themselves in bankruptcy and it is arrested in 1813 by debts. The following year he happened to take refuge to the locality of Calais, in France, where soon after he would finish his days.
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