Hamilton, ANTHONY, COUNT, a cadet of the Abercorn branch of the Scottish family of Hamilton, was born in Ireland in 1646. At twenty-one he went to France, and got a captain's commission; in 1685 he was captain of Limetick, and fought at the Boyne (1690); thereafter he lived at the court of St Germain-en-Laye, and there he died, 6th August 1720. His writings are full of wit and talent, particularly his Contes de Féerie (3 vols. Paris, 1805; Eng. trans. 1849). For his Mémoires du Comte de Gramont, see GRAMONT.
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