21.08.1796 la. Belhaven adv at Holcroft's
William Hamilton who called himself Lord Belhaven voted as a Scottish peer for the election of Scottish peers to the House of Lords but his vote was declared invalid in 1793. His distant cousin William Hamilton of Wishaw laid claim to the title in 1795 and it was allowed by the House of Lords in 1799. The claim succeeded because he was descended from a younger brother of the original noble, while the failed claimant was descended from an older brother, and such was the custom in Scotland. The rejected claimant wrote a will dated 15.5.1795 leaving all to his wife Elizabeth Hamilton called Lady Belhaven. Having raised a company he died on board ship on 19.1.1796 and his widow proved the will on 3.9.1796, shortly after this visit to Holcroft's. A William Hamilton married Elizabeth Danvers 4.2.1787 at St Benet Fink, London and a William Hamilton married Elizabeth Glenn on 22.2.1793 at St Luke's Chelsea. The successful claimant to the title had married 2.3.1789 Penelope dau of Ranald Macdonald of Clanranald, so this could also be her. In Family Search I found a reference to an undated marriage of Lord Belhaven with Eliz Barbar Innes, from the South Carolina Magazine of Ancestral Research vol 5 *1 and vol 5*4, but I haven't traced this periodical