HAMILTON, Sir Frederick William (son of William Richard Hamilton 1777–1859). b. 8 July 1815; page of honour to George iv. and William iv. 1826–31; ensign Grenadier guards 12 July 1831, adjutant 1836–46, lieut. col. 19 June 1860; col. 21 fusiliers 10 Jany. 1870 to death; general 21 Nov. 1876, retired 1881; served with the grenadier guards 1854–5, present at Alma, Balaklava and Inkerman; commanded divisions of the army in the trenches at Sebastopol; C.B. 29 Dec. 1856, K.C.B. 24 May 1873; military attaché at Berlin 1860–62; V.P. of council on military education 1862–6; commander of forces in Scotland 1866–8; commanded brigade of guards 1868–70; author of The origin and history of the First Grenadier guards 3 vols. 1874–7. d. Pitcorthie, Fife 4 Oct. 1890. I.L.N. 18 Oct. 1890 p. 433, portrait.
HAMILTON, George Alexander (elder son of Rev. George Hamilton of Tyrellas, co. Down, who d. March 1833). b. Tyrellas 29 Aug. 1802; ed. at Rugby, Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1821, M.A. 1832, LL.B. and LLD. 1851, and Trin. coll. Ox., B.A. 1822, D.C.L. 1853; contested city of Dublin 1826, 1830, 1832 and 1837; M.P. for city of Dublin 1835–7; M.P. for univ. of Dublin 1843–59; financial sec. of the Treasury, March to Dec. 1852, March 1858 to Jany. 1859, permanent sec. Jany. 1859; a comr. of church temporalities in Ireland 1870; P.C. 7 Aug. 1869. d. Kingstown near Dublin 17 Sep. 1871. Portraits of eminent conservatives 2 series (1846), portrait; I.L.N. xxi, 517, 518 (1852), portrait.
HAMILTON, Hans Henry (4 son of Henry Hamilton of Ballymacool, Meath). b. 1801; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1820, M.A. 1832; called to Irish bar 1823; Q.C. 9 Nov. 1852; chairman of quarter sessions for co. Galway 1852–8, for co. Armagh 1858 to death. d. 28 Fitzwilliam place, Dublin 20 April 1875. Irish Law Times, ix, 208 (1875).
HAMILTON, Very Rev. Henry Parr (son of Alexander Hamilton of Edinburgh, M.D. 1739–1802). b. 3 April 1794; ed. at Trin. coll. Cam.; 9th wrangler 1816, B.A. 1816, M.A. 1819; fell. of his coll. 1816; R. of Wath near Ripon 1830–50; P.C. of St. Mary the Great, Cam. 1833–44; rural dean 1847; dean of Salisbury 17 April 1850 to death; F.R.S. 17 Jany. 1828; F.R.A.S.; F.G.S.; author of The principles of analytical geometry, Cambridge 1826; An analytical system of conic sections, Cambridge 1828, 5 ed. 1843; The church and the education question 1848; Scheme for the reform of their cathedral by the dean and chapter of Salisbury 1855. d. the Deanery, the Close, Salisbury 7 Feb. 1880. Monthly notices of Royal Astronom. Soc. xli, 184–7 (1881).
HAMILTON, Rev. James (son of Rev. William Hamilton 1780–1835, minister of St. Andrew’s, Dundee). b. Lonend, Paisley 27 Nov. 1814; ed. at Glasgow univ., B.A. 1835, and at Edin. univ., D.D.; assist. presbyterian minister St. George’s ch. Edin. 1838, minister at Abernyte 1839, at Roxburgh ch. Edin. 1841, at National Scotch ch. Regent sq. London 1841 to death; author of Life in earnest 1845; Memoirs of Richard Williams 1854; A morning beside the lake of Galilee 1863; Excelsior, helps to progress 6 vols. 1854; Works 6 vols. 1869–73; editor of Presbyterian Messenger 1849 and of Evangelical Christendom 1864. d. 48 Euston sq. London 24 Nov. 1867. W. Arnot’s Life of J. Hamilton (1870), portrait; Illust. news of the world, ix, (1862), portrait.
HAMILTON, Rev. James. b. county Kerry about 1813; ed. at Carlow coll., professor of classics there 1835 and of natural philosophy 1842–51; ordained priest 20 Dec. 1836; missioner in the parishes of Mountrath, Bagenalstown and Rathvilly to 1842, and in Tullow 1851–7; military chaplain at the Curragh camp Dec. 1857, at Woolwich, at Bermuda 1865–7, at Aldershot 1868–73, held rank as a major; delivered 4 lectures on the ‘Structure of the Heavens’ in the Rotunda, Dublin, Jany. 1856. d. at the house of his brother Dr. W. Hamilton at Tarbert 20 Dec. 1873. Comerford’s Collections (1883) 214–24.
HAMILTON, James. b. Ireland 1819; drawing master in Philadelphia; illustrated Life of Rear admiral J. Paul Jones 1845, Kane’s Arctic Explorations 1856, The Arabian Nights, Coleridge’s Ancient Mariner, and other popular works; painted many pictures especially marine views. d. 10 March 1878.
HAMILTON, Sir James (son of Rev. George Hamilton of Armagh). b. Warrenpoint, co. Down 1815; ed. at Belfast academical instit.; chairman of Belfast harbour commission 1867 to death; knighted by lord lieut. earl Spencer, on opening of horticultural exhibition at Belfast 9 Aug. 1872. d. West view, Bangor, co. Down 26 Oct. 1882. Times 10 Aug. 1872, p. 12, 21 Aug. p. 7.
HAMILTON, Sir James John, 2 Baronet (only son of Sir John Hamilton, 1 baronet, G.C.S.I. 1755–1835). b. Londonderry 1 March 1802; ed. at Harrow and Ch. Ch. Ox., B.A. 1822; 2 lieut. rifle brigade 10 July 1823, served during Canadian rebellion 1837–8; major on h.p. 8 Oct. 1838, sold out May 1852; M.P. for Sudbury, Suffolk 25 July to Dec. 1837; contested Marylebone, July 1841 and July 1847; sheriff of Pembrokeshire 1857, of Tyrone 1859. d. 6 Portman sq. London 12 Jany. 1876. I.L.N. lxviii, 95, 215 (1876).
HAMILTON, Janet (dau. of a shoemaker called Thomson). b. Carshill, Shotts parish, Lanarkshire 12 Oct. 1795; a yarn spinner; learnt to write 1848; wrote for Cassell’s Working Man’s Friend 1849; became blind 1855; author of Poems and songs 1863; Poems of purpose and sketches 1865; Poems and Ballads 1868; Poems, essay and sketches 1880. (m. 1809 John Hamilton, shoemaker), she d. Langloan, Lanarkshire 27 Oct. 1873, Memorial fountain erected at Langloan. Poems, sketches and essays by J. Hamilton (1885), portrait; Good Words, Feb. 1884 pp. 118–24, portrait.