HAMILTON, Sir John. b. Dover 1765; captain in H.M.’s packet service; communicated to admiral Duncan intelligence of the Dutch fleet being at sea which led to victory at Camperdown 11 Oct. 1797; knighted at St. James’s palace 5 March 1845. d. at Capt. Luke Smithett’s house, 17 Snargate st. Dover 1 Feb. 1858.
HAMILTON, John. b. Dumfriesshire; a newspaper reporter at Preston; edited the Aylesbury News 7 years; formed a church at Aylesbury; edited the Empire in London, joint proprietor of it with George Thompson; edited the Morning Star to 1860; F.R.S. d. Howe villa, Windermere 14 Oct. 1860 aged 39.
HAMILTON, John. b. 1809; M.R.C.S. Ireland, F.R.C.S. 1844, V.P. 1874; edited The Dublin Journal of medical and chemical science 1832; visiting surgeon Richmond hospital 1844–75; surgeon in ordinary to the queen 1874; governor of House of Industry hospitals 1875; president Dublin pathological soc.; author of An essay on syphilitic sarcocele 1849; The restoration of a lost nose 1864; Lectures on syphilitic osteitis and periostitis 1874. d. 14 Merrion sq. North, Dublin 2 Nov. 1875. Medical Times 13 Nov. 1875 p. 561.
HAMILTON, John Potter. Cornet Scotch Greys 1793; commanded a battalion at battle of Castalla, May 1813; lieut.-col. 83 foot 3 June 1813; captain 3 foot guards 1814, retired Aug. 1819; special commissioner to Colombia 10 Oct. 1823, signed treaty of amity 18 April 1825; K.H. 1836; author of Travels through Colombia 1827; Reminiscences of an old sportsman 2 vols. 1860. d. Bodleyfryd, Wrexham 28 Jany. 1873 aged 95.
HAMILTON, Rev. Joseph Harriman. Ed. at Trin. coll. Cam.; 27 wrangler and B.A. 1822, M.A. 1825; chaplain of his coll. 1824; C. of St. Michael, Chester sq. Pimlico, London 1848–71; prebendary of Chiswick in St. Paul’s cath. 1859–72; R. of Frant, Sussex 1871 to 1879; canon residentiary of Rochester 1872 to death. d. the precincts, Rochester 17 Aug. 1881 aged 81.
HAMILTON, Ker Baillie (4 son of Ven. Charles Baillie-Hamilton 1764–1820, archdeacon of Cleveland). b. 13 July 1804; entered H.E.I.C.S. 1822; clerk of council and acting colonial sec. Cape of Good Hope 1829; lieut. governor of Grenada 1846–52; administrator of Barbadoes and the Windward islands 1851–2; governor of Newfoundland 1852–5; governor in chief of Antigua and Leeward islands 1855 to Jany. 1863; C.B. 23 July 1862; retired 1867; author of Our saddle horses 1865. d. 43 Broadwater Down, Tunbridge Wells 6 Feb. 1889.
HAMILTON, Nicholas. Ensign 5 foot 15 June 1796; inspecting field officer 10 June 1813 to 11 Nov. 1851; colonel 82 foot 10 Dec. 1856 to death; L.G. 11 Jany. 1858. d. 35 Lower Bagot st. Dublin 13 Dec. 1859 in 78 year.
HAMILTON, Richard. b. 18 Dec. 1810; ensign 1 Madras N.I. 25 Aug. 1828, major 21 May 1858; lieut.-col. Madras staff corps 18 Feb. 1861, placed on retired list 18 Dec. 1880; general 23 Aug. 1884; C.B. 29 May 1875. d. Nethway, Torquay 1 March 1888.
HAMILTON, Robert Douglas (son of a stone mason and farmer). b. Muirhead, Lanarkshire 16 Jany. 1783; ed. at Glasgow and Edin. universities; assist. surgeon in H.M. hospital ship ‘Tromp’ at Falmouth, April 1808 to Nov. 1809; surgeon at St. Mawes 1809–12; served as a surgeon with the army in the Peninsula; emigrated to U.S. America 1827; settled at Scarborough near Toronto, Upper Canada 1830; contributed to newspapers and periodicals under name of Guy Pollock; author of Essays, Truro 1812; Craignethan castle. A poem, Edin. 1817, anon.; The principles of medicine, vol. i, 1821; Dr. Shaddow of Gostlington, By Mungo Coulter Goggle. d. Scarborough 2 April 1857. Morgan’s Bibl. Canadensis (1867) 174.
HAMILTON, Sir Robert North Collie, 6 Baronet (1 son of Sir Frederick Hamilton, 5 baronet, d. 1853). b. Benares, India 7 April 1802; of H.E.I.C.S. 1819; judge of Benares March 1829; sec. to the government in N.W. provinces March 1842, and resident with Holkar at Indore 1844; governor general’s agent for Central India 1854–9; served during the mutiny 1857–8; retired 1860; member of supreme council 1859–60; K.C.B. 18 May 1860; sheriff of Warwickshire 1866; contested S. Warwickshire 1868. d. Avon Cliffe, Stratford-on-Avon 31 May 1887.