HAMILTON, Arthur Philip. Entered navy Oct. 1800; on 28 Sep. 1810 in a boat attack captured 2 brigs from under the battery of Pointe du Ché near Rochelle; captain 31 May 1816; retired admiral 4 Oct. 1862. d. 2 Dorset sq. London 2 Sep. 1877.
HAMILTON, Charles. b. 1801; ed. at Addiscombe; ensign Bengal army 27 Jany. 1818; lieut.-col. Bengal infantry 19 Jany. 1843, served in Gwalior campaign 1843, commanded 2 grenadier N.I. at battle of Maharajpore and same regt. in Sutlej campaign 1845–6 including actions of Moodkee and Ferozeshah and capture of Kote Kangra 1846; C.B. 22 May 1843; general 16 May 1872; retired 1 Oct. 1877. d. 19 Sussex gardens, London 27 Oct. 1889.
HAMILTON, Charles George Archibald (2 son of 11 duke of Hamilton 1811–63). b. Connaught place, London 18 May 1847; cornet 11 hussars 1866–69; served in German army at siege of Strasbourg 1870; his vagaries were the talk of Paris and the German spas about 1870; joined the Church of Rome 1885; resided at Biarritz 1876–86. d. Nice 2 May 1886, having been nursed by his intended wife Mdlle. Pignatelli. bur. in Hamilton palace mausoleum 12 May.
HAMILTON, Charles James (elder son of Charles Powell Hamilton 1747–1825, admiral R.N.) b. 29 July 1779; minister plenipo. to French court 3 March 1832 to 19 April 1833 at Buenos Ayres 5 July 1834; envoy extrad. and min. plen. at Rio Janiero 2 Oct. 1835 to 9 Feb. 1847 when he was pensioned. d. 15 Dec. 1856.
HAMILTON, Charles William. Entered Bengal army 1799; col. 40 Bengal N.I. 1850 to death; L.G. 11 Nov. 1851. d. Home Mead, Lymington 22 July 1866 aged 82.
HAMILTON, Claud (2 son of James Hamilton, Viscount Hamilton 1786–1814). b. Lower Grosvenor st. London 27 July 1813; ed. at Harrow and Trin. coll. Cam.; M.P. for co. Tyrone 1835–37 and 1839–74; treasurer of the household 27 Feb. 1852 to Dec. 1852 and 26 Feb. 1858 to June 1859; P.C. 27 Feb. 1852; vice chamberlain of the household 10 July 1866 to Dec. 1868; lieut.-col. commandant Donegal militia 19 July 1867 to death. d. 83 Portland place, London 3 June 1884. bur. at Elton 12 June.
HAMILTON, Sir Edward, 1 Baronet (2 son of Sir John Hamilton, 1 baronet, d. 1784). b. 12 March 1772; entered navy 21 May 1799; cut out Spanish frigate ‘Hermione’ from port of Puerto Cabello 25 Oct. 1799, a feat unsurpassed in naval annals; captain 3 June 1797; knighted by patent 3 June 1800; received freedom of city of London 25 Oct. 1800; commanded royal yacht Mary 1806–19; K.C.B. 2 Jany. 1815; baronet 26 Jany. 1819; admiral 9 Nov. 1846. d. 17 Cumberland terrace, Regent’s park, London 20 March 1851.
HAMILTON, Eliza Mary (5 child of Archibald Hamilton of Dublin, attorney 1778–1819). b. 4 April 1807; author of Poems, Dublin 1838. d. Dublin 14 May 1851.
HAMILTON, Elizabeth (dau. of Sir W. S. Hamilton 1788–1856). A promoter of university education of women in Scotland; wrote memoir of her father for Encyclopædia Britannica; author of Microcosmus by H. Lotze, a translation 1885. d. 30 Northampton park, Canonbury, London 2 March 1882 aged 42.
HAMILTON, Frederic Douglas (5 son of Capt. Augustus Barrington P. A. P. Hamilton). b. 12 May 1815; attaché at Buenos Ayres 1834–6, at Rio de Janiero 1836, paid attaché there 1844; first paid attaché at Vienna 1852; sec. of legation at Stuttgardt 1853–8, at Athens 1859, at Frankfort 1859, at Stockholm 1862; chargé d’affaires and consul general at Quito, Ecuador 1867, minister resident and consul general there 1872, retired 17 Nov. 1883. d. Tunbridge Wells 15 May 1887.