Frederic Boase
Modern English Biography (volume 1 of 4) A-H
HALLIBURTON, Sir Brenton. b. Halifax, Nova Scotia 3 Dec. 1773; capt. 7 fusiliers; admitted barrister 1803, bencher 1807, mem. of council 1816; judge of supreme court of Nova Scotia 1811, chief justice 1835; knighted by patent 13 April 1859; author of Observations on the importance of the North American colonies to Great Britain 1825, 2 ed. 1831; Reflections on passing events, a poem 1856, and letters in the Halifax Recorder on the American war, signed Anglo-American 1813. d. near Halifax 16 July 1860. Memoir of Sir B. Halliburton, By Rev. G. W. Hill (1864); Morgan’s Bibliotheca Canadensis (1867) 173.
HALLIDAY, Andrew (son of Rev. Wm. Duff, d. 1844). b. The Grange, Marnock, Banffshire early in 1830; ed. at Marischal coll. and univ. Aberdeen; went to London 1849; discarded name of Duff; contributed to Morning Chronicle, People’s Journal, &c.; wrote the article ‘Beggars’ in H. Mayhew’s London Labour 1851; a founder of the Savage club 1857, pres. 1857 to death; wrote a series of essays in All the year round 1861, &c., since collected into volumes called Everyday papers 2 vols. 1864, Sunnyside papers 1866 and Town and country sketches 1866; wrote with Frederick Lawrence burlesque of Kenilworth produced at Strand theatre 26 Dec. 1858, it ran for more than 100 nights; with Wm. Brough the Area Belle 1864 and other farces for Adelphi; wrote The Great city produced at Drury Lane 22 April 1867 which ran 102 nights; For love or money with which Vaudeville theatre opened 16 April 1870; Little Emly produced at Olympic theatre 9 Oct. 1869 which ran 200 nights; Amy Robsart produced at Drury Lane 24 Sep. 1870. d. 74 St. Augustine’s road, Camden Town, London 10 April 1877. Cartoon Portraits (1873) 88–9, portrait; Illust. Review, i, 81–2 (1874), portrait.
HALLIDAY, Michael Frederick. b. 1822; clerk in parliament office, house of lords 1839 to death; exhibited 8 pictures at R.A. and 1 at Suffolk st. 1853–66; his chief works were The measure for the wedding ring 1856 and Roma vivente e Roma morta 1866; an early member of the pre-Raphaelite sch.; one of first 8 who competed for Elcho shield at Wimbledon 1862. d. 30 Thurloe place, South Kensington, London 1 June 1869.
HALLIWELL, Richard Bissett. b. Fitzroy st. Fitzroy sq. London 30 Nov. 1842; an engineer in London; amateur cricketer; a hard hitter and excellent wicket keeper; played in the Middlesex eleven and in the Gentlemen v. the Players; generally played under name of Bissett. d. 9 Nov. 1881.
HALLIWELL-PHILLIPPS, James Orchard (3 son of Thomas Halliwell). b. Sloane st. Chelsea 21 June 1820; matric. from Trin. coll. Cam. 1837, removed to Jesus coll. 1838; LLD. of Edin. univ. 1883; F.S.A. 14 Feb. 1839; F.R.S. 30 May 1839; projected Cambridge Antiquarian soc. and was the sec. 1840; settled with his father in London 1840; became connected with Shakespeare soc. 1840; accused of taking MSS. from library of Trin. coll. Cam. 1844; forbidden to enter Br. Museum library 10 Feb. 1845; presented his Shakespearian library to Univ. of Edin. Feb. 1872; bought theatre Stratford on Avon, March 1872; was the means of buying Shakespeare’s residence New place, Stratford 1863, conveyed it to the corporation of Stratford by deed dated 8 April 1876; author of Dictionary of archaic and provincial words 1846, 10 ed. 1881; Life of William Shakespeare 1848; Shakespeare 16 vols. 1853–63; Lithographed facsimiles of the Shakespearean quartos 48 vols. 1862–71 of which there are only 15 complete sets. (m. 9 Aug. 1842 Henrietta E. M. eld. dau. of Sir Thomas Phillipps, baronet, she d. 25 March 1879); discontinued name of Halliwell and assumed name of Phillips by r.l. 29 Feb. 1872, prefixed former name of Halliwell to name of Phillips by deed inrolled in chancery 28 May 1879. d. Hollingbury Copse near Brighton 3 Jany. 1889. I.L.N. 12 Jany. 1889 p. 36, portrait.
HALLOWES, John. Entered navy July 1803; captain 5 Dec. 1842; R.A. on half pay 20 May 1862; admiral on half pay 30 July 1875. d. Milton house near Portsmouth 11 Jany. 1883 aged 91.
HALLYBURTON, John Frederick Gordon- (3 son of 9th Marquis of Huntly, d. 1853). b. 15 Aug. 1799; entered navy Feb. 1813, captain 4 Aug. 1836; G.C.H. 22 Aug. 1836; known as Lord J. F. Gordon from 1838; admiral on half pay 8 April 1868; assumed name of Hallyburton 1843; M.P. for Forfar 1841–52. d. Hallyburton house, Coupar Angus 29 Sep. 1878.
HALPIN, Rev. Robert Crawford. Boy volunteer in Canadian rebellion 1839; ensign 14 foot 1840; educ. Trin. coll. Dublin, B.A. 1843, M.A. 1868; chaplain in army 1849; served in Crimean campaign, medal, 4 clasps and Turkish medal; in China war 1860; chaplain to household brigade 1863, retired 1 July 1880; reward for distinguished service 1 April 1875; chaplain hospital for women Soho, London 1880. d. 22 Belsize sq. London 19 March 1889.
HALPINE, Charles Graham (son of Rev. Nicholas John Halpine 1790–1850, editor of the Dublin Evening Mail). b. Oldcastle, co. Meath, Nov. 1829; ed. at Trin. coll. Dublin to 1846; emigrated to U.S. America 1851; assist. editor Boston Post 1852; editor New York Leader 1857; served in Federal army April 1861 to 1864; assist. adjutant general and colonel 1862; editor of New York Citizen 1864; registrar of the county of New York 1867; author under name of Miles O’Reilly of Life and adventures of Private Miles O’Reilly 1864; Baked meats of the funeral by Private Miles O’Reilly 1866. d. from taking undiluted chloroform at New York city 3 Aug. 1868. Poetical works of C. G. Halpine (1869), portrait.
HALSEY, Thomas Plumer (1 son of Joseph T. W. Halsey of Gaddesden park, Herts. d. 1818). b. 26 Jany. 1815; M.P. for co. Hertford, Jany. 1846 to death; lost in the ‘Ercolano’ steamer off Villa Franca on her way from Genoa to Marseilles 24 April 1854. G.M. xli, 649 (1854); A.R. 1854 pp. 68, 292.
HALSTED, Francis. Printseller Bond st., then at 13 Rathbone place, Oxford st. London; great authority on Turner before Ruskin’s era commenced; formed the collection of Liber Studiorum prints which Mr. Stokes bequeathed to Miss Mary Constance Clark; formed similar collections for J. L. Taylor proprietor of Manchester Guardian, and Sir John Hippesley. d. St. John’s Wood, Aug. 1879 aged 72.
HALY, Right Rev. Francis. b. Doonane parish, Queen’s county 1781; ed. at Maynooth 1807–12; C. of Rathvilly 1812–3; administrator of Mountrath 1813–22; parish priest of Kilcock 1822; bp. of Kildare and Leighlin, consecrated 25 March 1838; visited Rome 1844. d. Carlow 19 Aug. 1855 aged 74, left his library to Carlow coll. Comerford’s Collections (1883) 140–50, portrait.
HALY, Sir William O’Grady (son of Aylmer Haly of Wadhurst castle, Sussex). b. 1810; ensign 4 foot 17 June 1828; lieut. col. 38 foot 4 Feb. 1859 to 12 Jany. 1865; colonel of 106 foot 17 May 1874, of 47 foot 2 Nov. 1875 to death; served Eastern campaign of 1854–55; commanded forces in Canada 6 May 1873 to death; general 1 Oct. 1877; C.B. 5 July 1855, K.C.B. 29 May 1875. d. Halifax, Nova Scotia 19 March 1878.
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.
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.
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.
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.
HAMILTON, Thomas. b. Edinburgh 1784; apprentice to his father a carpenter; architect and builder at Edinburgh; designed Burns’ memorial at Alloway near Ayr 1818, completed 1823, Knox monument Glasgow 1825, Edinburgh high sch. 1825–9, George iv. bridge 1827, Ayr town buildings 1828, Burns’ monument Edin. 1830, Dr. Guthrie’s ch. 1840 and the Martyrs’ monument on the Calton hill 1844; author of Observations on completing the college of Edinburgh 1816; Report relative to improvements on the earthen mound 1830. d. 9 Howe st. Edinburgh 24 Feb. 1858. Crombie’s Modern Athenians (1882) 142–4, portrait.
HAMILTON, Thomas. b. Longridge, parish of Stonehouse, Lanarkshire 4 Feb. 1783; partner with Robert and John Ogle at 37 Paternoster row, London 1 Jany. 1808 to 1813; wholesale bookseller at 33 Paternoster row 1813–50 when he retired, joined by Wm. Adams 1824, by Joseph Johnson Miles 1833; published some important books, chiefly religious, the works of W. Jay of Bath, Rev. J. A. James and Rev. C. Bradley; lived at Windmill place, Clapham common from 1850, d. there 27 Dec. 1877. bur. Beddington churchyard 2 Jany. 1878. Bookseller (1878) p. 7.
HAMILTON, Walter Ferrier (1 son of Col. John Hamilton of Cairn hill, Ayrshire). b. Cairn hill 31 May 1818; M.P. for Linlithgowshire 1859–65. d. Cathlow house, Torphichen, Linlithgowshire 8 April 1872.
HAMILTON, Right Rev. Walter Kerr (elder son of Ven. Anthony Hamilton 1778–1851). b. London 16 Nov. 1808; ed. at Eton and Ch. Ch. Ox., student 1827–32, B.A. 1831, M.A. 1833, D.D. 1854; fellow of Merton 1832–42; C. of Wolvercot, Oxf. 1833; V. of St. Peter’s-in-the-East, Oxf. 1837–41; canon of Salisbury, June 1841, precentor 1843; bishop of Salisbury 27 March 1854 to death, consecrated at Lambeth 14 May; established a theological coll. at Salisbury 1861; an extreme high churchman, his episcopal charge 1867 gave rise to discussion in house of lords; author of Morning and evening services for every day in the week 1842; Cathedral reform 1855; A charge 1867 to which there were 9 published replies. d. the palace, Salisbury 1 Aug. 1869. W. K. Hamilton, bishop of Salisbury, By H. P. Liddon (1869); Register and Mag. of Biog. ii, 143–4 (1869).
HAMILTON, Walter Richard Pollock (4 son of Alexander Hamilton of Inistioge, Ireland). b. 18 Aug. 1856; sub-lieut. 70 foot 28 Feb. 1874; with the Guide cavalry in Bengal; served in Jowaki-Afridi expedition 1877–8, in Afghan campaign 1878, Victoria cross for gallantry at Futtehabad 2 April 1879 when as the last officer he had to assume command of Guide cavalry; accompanied Sir Louis Cavagnari to Kabul where he was killed 3 Sep. 1879. Shadbolt’s Afghan campaign, Biographical division (1882) 98–100, portrait.
HAMILTON, Sir William (son of W. Hamilton). b. 14 Feb. 1790; entered royal navy 1803; a prisoner of war in France 1805–14; vice consul at Flushing and Middleburg 1817, at Antwerp 1818, at Ostend 1818, at Nieuport 1820, at Boulogne 1822, consul there 28 June 1826 to 1 April 1873 when he retired on pension; knighted by patent 21 Feb. 1873. d. 113 Grande rue, Boulogne 14 Feb. 1877. I.L.N. lxii, 369, 370 (1873), portrait.
HAMILTON, William Alexander Baillie- (brother of Ker Baillie Hamilton 1804–89). b. Normanby, Yorkshire 6 June 1803; entered navy 28 Aug. 1816; captain 9 Aug. 1828; private sec. to first lord of the Admiralty 1841, sec. of the Admiralty Jany. 1845 to 1855 when granted a pension of £1000; comr. of patriotic fund 1865–81; admiral on h.p. 12 Sep. 1865. d. Portree, Isle of Skye 1 Oct. 1881.
HAMILTON, William Bishop. b. London 1810; went to U.S. of A. 1827; traversed Mississippi river on a flat boat giving dramatic performances at chief towns several years; acted at Burton’s Chambers st. theatre New York; went to California 1851; lessee of Jenny Lind theatre, San Francisco, afterwards of San Francisco Hall, the American theatre and Metropolitan, all in San Francisco; returned to New York 1859. d. London 3 Dec. 1868.
HAMILTON, William John (1 son of William Richard Hamilton 1777–1859). b. London 5 July 1805; ed. at Charterhouse and Univ. of Gottingen; F.G.S. 1831, sec. 1832–54, pres. 1854, 1865–6; with H. Strickland explored the Levant and the volcanic region of the Katakekaumene 1835; went on horseback through Asia Minor 1836; F.R.G.S., pres. 1837, 1841, 1842, 1847, founder’s medallist 1843; F.R.S.; M.P. for Newport, Isle of Wight 1841–47; director of Great Indian peninsular railway 1849 to death; author of Researches in Asia Minor, Pontus and Armenia 2 vols. 1842. d. 23 Chesham place, London 27 June 1867. Quarterly Journal of Geol. Soc. xxiv, 29–33 (1867).
HAMILTON, William Richard (son of Rev. Anthony Hamilton 1739–1812, archdeacon of Colchester). b. London 9 Jany. 1777; ed. at Harrow where he was lamed for life; sec. to lord Elgin at Constantinople 1799, sent to Egypt 1801 when he recovered the Rosetta stone from the French; aided in collecting and removing the Elgin marbles from Athens 1802; F.S.A. 1804, director 1809–10, under sec. of state for foreign affairs 1809–22; minister at Naples 1822–4; treasurer of Royal institution 1832–49; F.R.S.; a trustee of Br. Museum 1838–58; author of Ægyptiaca or the ancient and modern state of Egypt 1809; Memorandum on the earl of Elgin’s pursuits in Greece 1811. d. 12 Bolton row, London 11 July 1859. Chambers’ Eminent Scotsmen, ii, 229 (1869).
HAMILTON, Sir William Rowan (4 child of Archibald Hamilton of Dublin, attorney 1778–1819). b. 29 Dominick st. Dublin at midnight 3–4 Aug. 1805; was acquainted with 9 languages in 1819; student of Trin. coll. Dublin 1823, B.A. 1827, M.A. 1837, LL.B. and LLD. 1839; Andrews professor of astronomy, astronomer royal for Ireland and superintendent of Dublin observatory at Dunsink near Dublin 1827 to death; knighted by lord lieutenant Lord Mulgrave in library of Trin. coll. 15 Aug. 1835; M.R.I.A. 1832, president 1837; granted civil list pension of £200, 27 April 1844 which was continued to his widow; discovered conical refraction 1824; invented quaternions 1843; author of Lectures on quaternions 1853; The elements of quaternions 1866. d. Dunsink observatory 2 Sep. 1865. R. P. Graves’ Life of Sir W. R. Hamilton 3 vols. 1882–89, 3 portraits; Dublin Univ. Mag., xix, 94–110 (1842), portrait; Proc. of Royal Soc. of Edin. v, 473 (1866).