Lady Mary Cecilia Rhodesia Hamilton (1896–1984), who married twice, firstly in 1917 Capt/Maj. Robert Orlando Rudolph Kenyon-Slaney (1892–1965), with whom she divorced in 1930, and secondly, in 1930, to Sir John Gilmour, 2nd Baronet. With her first husband she had two daughters and a son, and with her second husband one son.
Lord Claud David Hamilton (1907–1968), who worked as a barrister in the Inner Temple, and who in 1946 married Genesta Mary Heath; he was her third husband and the union was childless.
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]
Coat of arms of Rosalind Hamilton, Duchess of Abercorn
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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).
