long Queue, and Fingers cover'd with gold Rings', and his foreign appearance. According to another obituary, this time in Gentleman's Magazine, he had 'an intense family pride'. Death and legacy Hamilton had a strong interest in Ancient Egyptian mummies, and was so impressed with the work of mummy expert Thomas Pettigrew that he arranged for Pettigrew to mummify him after his death. He died on 18 August 1852 at age 84 at 12 Portman Square, London, England and was buried on 4 September 1852 at Hamilton Palace, Hamilton, Scotland. In accordance with his wishes, Hamilton's body was mummified after his death and placed in a sarcophagus of the Ptolemaic period that he had originally acquired in Paris in 1836 ostensibly for the British Museum. At the same time he had acquired the sarcophagus of Pabasa, an important nobleman which is now in the Kelvingrove Museum. In 1842 Hamilton had begun construction of the Hamilton Mausoleum as repository for the overcrowded family vault at the Palace. He was interred there with other Dukes of Hamilton, from the 1858 completion of the Mausoleum until 1921 when subsidence and the subsequent demolition of the Palace forced removal of the bodies to the Bent cemetery in Hamilton, where he still lies buried in his sarcophagus. His collection of paintings, objects, books and manuscripts was sold for £397,562 in July 1882. The manuscripts were purchased by the German government for £80,000. Some were repurchased by the British government and are now in the British Museum. Marriage and issue By his wife, Susan Beckford, Hamilton had one son and one daughter: William Hamilton, 11th Duke of Hamilton, who married Princess Marie Amelie of Baden Lady Susan Hamilton, who married 1st, Henry Pelham-Clinton, 5th Duke of Newcastle; 2nd, Jean Alexis Op de Beeck. Ancestry References External links Portrait The Peerage.com |- 1767 births 1852 deaths Alumni of Christ Church, Oxford Douglas and Clydesdale, Alexander Douglas-Hamilton, Marquess of Lord High Stewards 110 107 07 Alexander Hamilton, 10th Duke of Hamilton Fellows of the Royal Society Fellows of the Society of Antiquaries of London Garter Knights appointed by William IV Lord-Lieutenants of Lanarkshire Mummies People educated at Harrow School UK MPs 1802–1806 UK MPs who inherited peerages Ambassadors of the United Kingdom to Russia Scottish politicians Scottish art collectors Paintings by Henry Raeburn Alexander