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HAMILTON 



lliolt * Fr 



was. chairman 

 of the commis- 

 sion that in- 

 quired into the 

 poor laws, and 

 of the one that 

 reported upon 

 the early 

 failure in Meso- 

 p o t a m i a 

 during the 

 Great War. 

 In 1916 Lord 

 George published his reminiscences. 

 Hamilton, HUBERT ION WETHER- 

 ALL (1861-1914). British soldier. 

 Born June 27, 1861, he was a son of 

 Lieut. -General 

 H. M. Hamil- 

 t o n and a 

 brother of 

 General Bruce 

 M. Hamilton. 

 He joined the 

 Queen's Regi- 

 ment in 1880, 

 of which he 

 H. L W. Hamilton, was adjutant, 

 British soldier 1886-90; 

 Elliott & F, y served in the 



Burmese expedition, 1886-88 ; the 

 Egyptian campaign, 1897-99; and 

 in S. Africa, 1899-1902. Military 

 secretary to Kitchener in S. Africa, 

 1900-2, and in India, 1902-5, he 

 commanded the 7th brigade, 1906- 



8, and was on the general staff of 

 the Mediterranean command, 1908- 



9. He led the 3rd division at the 

 outbreak of the Great War, dis- 

 tinguishing himself at Mons and 

 the Aisne. Hamilton, who was 

 given the D.S.O. in 1898, was 

 killed near La Bassee, Oct. 14, 1914. 



Hamilton, SIR IAN STANDISH 

 MONTEITH HAMILTON (b. 1853). 

 British soldier. The son of a soldier, 

 he was born at Corfu, Jan. 16, 1853. 

 Educated at Cheam School and 

 Wellington College, he entered the 

 Gordon Highlanders in 1873, and 

 first saw active service in the 

 Afghan War of 1878-79.' He 

 served in the Boer War of 1881, 

 being taken prisoner at Majuba 

 Hill, where he was wounded, was 

 with the expedition up the Nile 

 in 1884-85, and in Burma, 1886- 

 87. In 1891 he became colonel, 

 and, after service in the Chitral 

 campaign, 1895, led a brigade in 

 the Tirah, 1897-98. For a short 

 time he commanded the school 

 of musketry at Hythe. 



In 1899, when the S. African 

 War began, Hamilton was in Lady- 

 smith as chief of the staff to Sir G. 

 White, and he was in command of 

 the infantry at Elandslaagte and 

 other engagements. After the 

 relief of Ladysmith he commanded 

 some mounted infantry, was chief 

 of the staff to Lord Kitchener, and 

 was in command of mobile columns 



in the Transvaal until the end of 

 the war in 1902. when he was made 

 quartermaster-general to the forces. 



During the Russo-Japanese War 

 he was military representative of 

 India, being in Manchuria with the 

 Japanese, an experience which led 

 to his book, A Staff Officer's Scrap 

 Book. From 1905-9 he was general 

 officer commanding the southern 

 district, from 1909-10 adjutant- 

 general and a member of the army 

 council, and from 191015 com- 

 mander-in-chief in the Mediterra- 

 nean and inspector-general of over- 

 sea forces. In 1915, having been 

 just made a full general, Hamilton 

 was chosen to command the force 

 that landed on the Gallipoli penin- 

 sula. He led it in its terrible right- 

 ing until he was superseded in Oct. 



The failure of the expedition was 

 bound to rea.ct on the general in 

 charge of the operations, and the 

 commission that inquired into the 

 matter censured him, although 



only on minor points. His san- 

 guine temperament, perhaps, made 

 , him unfitted for the task, but it is 

 doubtful whether another would 

 have succeeded. He retired from 

 the army in 1920. A charming 

 personality, Hamilton is a writer 

 with distinct gifts of style, shown 

 not least in his dispatches, and 

 something of a poet. His works 

 include Icarus and Fighting of the 

 Future,whileA Gallipoli Diary,1920, 

 deals with the campaign in Gal- 

 lipoli. See Gallipoli, Campaign in. 

 Hamilton, JOHN McLrRE (b. 

 1853). American painter. Born at 

 Philadelphia, Jan. 31, 1853, he 

 studied at the Antwerp Academy 

 and at the Beaux Arts, Paris. The 

 first years of his professional life 

 were passed in his native town, 

 but in 1878 he settled in London 

 as a portrait painter. Portraits of 



George V, Gladstone, Cardinal 

 Manning, Prof. Tyndall, General 

 Booth, Lord Leighton, and other 

 prominent artists may be cited. 



Hamilton, PATRICK (c. 1504- 

 28). Proto-martyr of the Scottish 

 Reformation. Born at Stane House, 

 Lanarkshire, or Kincavel, Linlith 

 gowshire, grandson of the 1st Baron 

 Hamilton, his mother was a daugh- 

 ter of Alexander Stewart, duke of 

 Albany, second son of James II. 

 Made abbot of Feme, Ross-shire, 

 in his Nth year, he was educated at 

 Paris, Louvain, and St. Andrews. 



For commending Tyndale's 

 translation of the N.T. in'l526 he 

 was charged with heresy. He es- 

 caped to Marburg, where he -came 

 under the influence of Luther and 

 other reformers and composed his 

 Loci Communes, known as Pat- 

 rick's Pleas, in which he set forth 

 the doctrine of justification by 

 faith. He returned to Scotland in 

 the autumn of 1527, was seized 

 Feb. 28, 1528, tried for heresy in St. 

 Andrews Cathedra!, sentenced by 

 Archbishop Beaton, and burnt at 

 the stake, Feb. 29, J 528. See Life, 

 P. Lorimer, 1857; Patrick Hamil- 

 ton, a Tragedy of the Reformation, 

 T. P. Johnston, 1882. 



Hamilton, WALTER KERR(1808- 

 69). British prelate. Born Nov. 16, 

 1808, son of Anthony Hamilton, 



archdeacon of r , 



Taunton, he- 

 was educated ^tev 

 at Eton and 

 ChristChurch, 

 Oxford, and 

 was fellow of 

 Merton, 1831, 

 with Henry E 

 Manning and 

 Edward Deni- 

 son. An ad- 

 herent of the 



I 



Walter K. Hamilton, 

 British prelate 



After Richmond 



Oxford movement (r/.v.), he suc- 

 ceeded Denison as vicar of S. Peter- 

 in-thc-East, Oxford, 1837-41 ; was 

 canon residentiary, Salisbury, 1841- 

 54; and bishop cf Salisbury, 1854- 

 69. In his charges he maintained 

 the doctrines of the Eucharistic 

 Sacrifice, the Real Presence, and 

 sacramental confession. He insti- 

 tuted diocesan retreats, estab- 

 lished Salisbury Theological Col- 

 lege, ] 860 ; composed Morning and 

 Evening Services for Every Day 

 in the Week, 1842; and wrote on 

 Cathedral Reform, 1853. He died 

 Aug. 1, 1869. 



Hamilton, WILLIAM (1665- 

 1751). Scottish poet. A friend of 

 Allan Ramsay, his Seven Familiar 

 Epistles represent a correspond- 

 ence in verse between the two 

 poets. Hamilton is also remem- 

 bered by his elegy on his dog 

 Bonny Heck and by " Willie was 

 a Wanton Wag." He wrote a 



