| Honorific-Prefix: | Her Grace |
| The Duchess of Abercorn | |
| Birth Place: | London, England |
| Death Place: | Westminster, London, England |
| Parents: | Charles George Bingham, 4th Earl of Lucan Lady Cecilia Catherine Gordon-Lennox |
| Children: | Lady Mary Gilmour Cynthia Spencer, Countess Spencer Lady Katherine Seymour James Hamilton, 4th Duke of Abercorn Lord Claud Hamilton |
Dame Rosalind Cecilia Caroline Hamilton, Duchess of Abercorn, (26 February 1869 – 18 January 1958; née Lady Rosalind Bingham) was a British aristocrat and the Duchess of Abercorn by marriage.
She was born on 26 February 1869 to Charles George Bingham, 4th Earl of Lucan, and Lady Cecilia Catherine Gordon-Lennox.
She married James, Marquess of Hamilton, eldest son of The 2nd Duke of Abercorn, on 1 November 1894 at St. Paul's Church, Knightsbridge.
They had five children:
When the Duchess of Abercorn and her husband left Northern Ireland in 1945, it was reported “her willingness to help all charitable and other organisations for the benefit of the community has endeared her to all.” [2]
She was Deputy Chief Commissioner of Ulster Girl Guides from 1921 to 1925.[3] In 1925 she established the Duchess of Abercorn's Fund for Girl Guides.[4] She was Chief Commissioner of Ulster Girl Guides between 1926 and 1945.[5] She was recipient of the Silver Fish Award, Girl Guiding's highest adult honour, in 1937.[6]
The Duchess of Abercorn's “Ulster Gift Fund” established in 1939 was affiliated to the Red Cross and St. John Ambulance. It was instrumental in coordinating the efforts of 214 Hospital Supply Depots in the making of over 3,500 supplies, plus socks, mufflers, mittens and helmets for the war effort.[7] [8]
Rosalind, Duchess of Abercorn, was invested as a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1936.[11]
She was awarded the honorary degree of Doctor of Laws (LLD) by Queen's University, Belfast, County Antrim, Northern Ireland, in 1944.[11] [12]
| Escutcheon: | The arms of The Duke of Abercorn (Quarterly: 1st & 4th, gules three cinquefoils pierced ermine (for Hamilton); 2nd & 3rd, argent, Argent, a lymphad with the sails furled proper, flagged gules and oars in action sable (for Arran) in the point of honour and over all, an inescutcheon azure with charged three fleur-de-lys or, and surmounted by a French ducal coronet (for Châtellerault)) impaled with the arms of The Earl of Lucan (Azure, a Bend cotised between six Crosses-Patée Or). |