HAMBLET, Henry. Steward and practically manager of Garrick club 35 King st. Covent Garden, London for many years down to 17 May 1862. d. London 1863. W. Ballantine’s Experiences (1883) 151; Lord W. P. Lennox’s My Recollections (1874) i, 144.
HAMBLETON, Rev. John (5 son of John Hambleton of St. Mary’s, Wallingford). b. 1799; ed. at St. Edm. hall, Ox., B.A. 1825, M.A. 1829; minister of Holloway episcopal chapel, Holloway road, London 1830 to death; author of Christ the good physician, a sermon 1829, 7 ed. 1847; A brief history of the soul 1833, 7 ed. 1847; A help to preparation for death, judgment and eternity 1839; Seven lectures on the Bible as the word of God 1861. d. 21 Compton ter. Upper st. Islington, London 22 Oct. 1865.
HAMBLIN, Thomas Sowerby. b. Pentonville, London 14 May 1800; ballet dancer Adelphi theatre at 6s. a week; first acted at Sadler’s Wells 1819, at Drury Lane 26 Dec. 1819 as Truman in George Barnwell; appeared at Park theatre, New York as Hamlet, Oct. 1825; lessee of Bowery theatre, New York, Aug. 1830, theatre burnt 16 Sep. 1836; played at Covent Garden 1836–7; lessee of Bowery 1838, again burnt 1845, lessee again 1847 to death; lessee of Park theatre, New York 1848, theatre burnt 16 Dec. 1848; his chief characters were Hamlet, The Stranger, William Tell, Virginius, Rolla and Petruchio. d. of brain fever Broome st. New York 8 Jany. 1853, left 100,000 dollars. Ireland’s New York Stage, i, 459–61 (1866); Appleton’s Cyclop. of American Biog. iii, 55 (1887), portrait.
HAMEL, Joseph Von. b. Sarepta on the Volga 1788; member of Imperial academy of sciences, St. Petersburgh 1828; ascended Mont Blanc when 3 of his guides perished 20 Aug. 1820; travelled and resided much in England from 1814 onwards; reported to his government on progress of science and arts in England; author of England and Russia, the voyage of J. Tradescant to the White sea 1854; Historical account of Galvanic and electro-magnetic telegraph 1859; Bishop Watson and the electric telegraph 1861 and works in Russian and German. d. Duke st. St. James’, London 22 Sep. 1862. G.M. xiii, 510, 788 (1862).
HAMERTON, John Millet. Ensign 44 foot 31 Oct. 1792, lieut. col. 31 March 1814 to 24 Jany. 1816 when placed on h.p.; col. 55 foot 7 Dec. 1848 to death; general 20 June 1854; C.B. 22 June 1815. d. Orchardstown house near Clonmel 27 Jany. 1855 aged 77.
HAMILTON, Alexander Hamilton-Douglas 10 Duke of (elder son of 9 Duke of Hamilton 1740–1819). b. St. James’s sq. London 5 Oct. 1767; ed. at Ch. Ch. Ox., M.A. 1789; styled Marquis of Douglas 1799–1819; M.P. for Lancaster 1802–6; col. of royal Lanarkshire militia 1802–34; lord lieut. of Lanarkshire 13 Nov. 1803 to death; ambassador to St. Petersburgh 28 May 1806 to July 1812; P.C. 18 June 1806; called to House of Lords by writ in his father’s barony of Dutton 4 Nov. 1806; F.R.S. 14 Jany. 1808; F.R.S. Edin., president; succeeded 16 Feb. 1819; lord high steward at coronations of Wm. iv. and of Victoria; K.G. 5 Feb. 1836. d. 12 Portman sq. London 18 Aug. 1852.
Note.—He cherished an idea that he was the legitimate King of Scotland; at his death his body was embalmed, deposited in a sarcophagus brought from the Pyramids of Egypt, and buried in a mausoleum 120 feet high which he had erected near Hamilton palace at cost of £130,000.
HAMILTON, William Alexander Anthony Archibald Hamilton-Douglas, 11 Duke of (only son of the preceding). b. Grosvenor place, London 18 Feb. 1811; Marquis of Douglas 1819–52; ed. at Ch. Ch. Oxf., B.A. 1832; col. 1 royal Lanark militia 23 Jany. 1834 to death; knight marischall of Scotland, June 1846; major commandant Glasgow yeomanry 1848–56; lord lieutenant of Lanarkshire, Aug. 1852 to death; grand master of freemasons of Scotland; lived chiefly at Paris and Baden. d. Paris 15 July 1863.
HAMILTON, Alexander. b. 27 Jany. 1774; called to Irish bar 1795; K.C. 25 Nov. 1822. d. Oct. 1852.
HAMILTON, Ven. Anthony (2 son of Ven. Anthony Hamilton 1739–1812, archdeacon of Colchester). b. 12 July 1778; ed. at St. John’s coll. Oxf, B.A. 1800, M.A. 1803; R. of Loughton, Essex 1805 to death; preb. of Warminster in Wells cath. 1810–27; chaplain in ord. to the Sovereign 1812–37; R. of St. Mary Le Bow with St. Pancras, Soper Lane and All Hallows, Honey Lane, London 1820 to death; archdeacon of Taunton and preb. of Milverton prima in Wells cath. 5 Dec. 1827 to death; precentor and first residentiary canon Lichfield cath. 1831 to 1850. d. Loughton rectory 10 Sep. 1851.