title: John Hamilton, 4th Earl of Haddington
text: # John Hamilton, 4th Earl of Haddington
  
  John Hamilton, 4th Earl of Haddington (1626 - 31 August 1669) was a Scottish nobleman.
  
  ## Life
  
  Haddington was born in 1626, second son of Thomas Hamilton, 2nd Earl of Haddington and Lady Catherine Erskine, a daughter of John Erskine, Earl of Mar.
  
  Lord Haddington was a minor in 1645, when he succeeded his brother Thomas who had died from consumption in that year. Owing to lameness, Haddington did not participate in the military, but was a conscientious attender of Parliament. Haddington attended the coronation of Charles II at Scone Abbey in 1651, and was later fined the sum of £555 11s 8d under Cromwell's Act of Grace.
  
  Haddington died on 31 August 1669 at Tyninghame House, East Lothian.
  
  ## Marriage and issue
  
  In 1648, Lord Haddington wed Lady Christian Lindsay (d.1704), daughter to the Lord Treasurer of Scotland, John Lindsay, 17th Earl of Crawford, and had issue:
  
  * Charles Hamilton, 5th Earl of Haddington
  * Hon. Thomas Hamilton, died in infancy
  * Hon. John Hamilton, died in infancy
  * Hon. William Hamilton, died in infancy
  * Lady Margaret Hamilton, married John Hope of Hopetoun, and had issue: Charles Hope, 1st Earl of Hopetoun
  * Lady Catherine Hamilton, died in infancy
  * Lady Anna Hamilton, died in infancy
  * Lady Helen Hamilton, married William Anstruther
  * Lady Susanna Hamilton, married Adam Cockburn, Lord Ormiston
  * Lady Christian Hamilton, died in infancy
  * Lady Elizabeth Hamilton, died in infancy
  * Lady Mary Hamilton
  