HAMILTON 



HAMIRPUR 



William Hamilton, 

 Scottish poet 



modernised version of Blind 

 Harry's Wallace, which attained 

 Considerable popularity. Generally 

 known as Hamilton of Gilbertfield, 

 hi Lanarkshire, where he long re- 

 sided, he afterwards moved to Lat- 

 rick, and died there May 24, 1751. 

 Hamilton, WILT.IAM (1704 54) 

 Scottish poet, generally known as 

 William of Bangour, in Linlithgow- 

 shire. He be- 

 came involved 

 in the Jacobite 

 rebellion of 

 1745, and had 

 to flee the 

 country. He 

 eventually re- 

 turned and 

 succeeded t o 

 the -family 

 estate, but his 

 health made it necessary for him 

 to go abroad again, and he died at 

 Lyons, March 25, 1754. He was 

 a contributor to Allan Ramsay's 

 Tea-table Miscellany. His fame 

 rests chiefly on the beautiful poem, 

 The Bonnie Braes of Yarrow. 



Hamilton, SIR WILLIAM (1730- 

 180H). British diplomatist. Bom 

 Dec. 13, 1730, he was a grandson of 

 the third duke 

 of Hamilton, 

 and in early 

 life was a sol- 

 dier. In 1761 

 he became an 

 M.P. and in 

 1764 went to 

 Naples as Brit- 

 i s h minister. 

 There he re- 

 mained until 

 1800, varying 



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social and sporting life and a keen 

 study of volcanic activity, encour- 

 aged by his proximity to Vesuvius. 

 He made a valuable collection of 

 antiquities, part of which, bought 

 by the trustees of the British 

 Museum in 1772, formed the nu- 

 cleus of the department of Greek 

 and Roman antiquities. Ancient 

 vases especially were purchased by 

 him in large numbers ; be was an 

 F.R S. and wi*ote several books on 

 volcanoes. His first wife, a Welsh 

 heiress, having died in 1782, Hamil- 

 ton persuaded Emma Lyon to live 

 with him at Naples, and she re- 

 mained his mistress until the two 

 were married in 1791. About 1793 

 the pair made the friendship of 

 Nelson, and the three spent a good 

 deal of time together. Hamilton 

 appears to have acquiesced in his 

 wife's intimacy with the great sea- 

 man, who was present when he 

 died, April 6, 1803. 



Hamilton, SIR WILLIAM (1788- 

 1856). Scottish philosopher. 

 Bora at Glasgow, March 8, 1788, 



Sir Wm. Hamilton, 

 British diplomatist 



From an engraving 



and educated 

 there and at 

 Balliol College, 

 Oxford, he be- 

 came professor 

 of history at 

 Edinburgh in 

 1821, and pro- 

 fessor of logic 

 and meta- 

 Sir Wm. Hamilton, physics from 

 Scottish philosopher 1836 _ 56 . H e 



After J. Archer, B.S.A. was an ar( J en t 



supporter of university reform and 

 an opponent of the tendency of the 

 colleges to claim for themselves 

 teaching and other functions which 

 rightly belonged to the university. 

 Hamilton, much influenced by 

 Kant, gave a new turn to Scottish 

 philosophy. He especially insists 

 upon the relativity of knowledge; 

 the absolute is not only unknow- 

 able, but also inconceivable; it is 

 an object of faith, not of science. 

 His most important work is his Lec- 

 tures on Metaphysics and Logic, 

 ed. Mansel and Veitch, publ. post- 

 humously 1859-61. He died at 

 Edinburgh, May 6, 1856. 



Hamilton, WILLIAM GERARD 

 (1729-96). English politician. Born 

 in London, Jan. 28, 1729, the son of 

 a bencher of 

 Lincoln's Inn, 

 and originally 

 intended for 

 the law, he 

 gave it up for 

 politics. Hav- 

 ing entered 

 Parliament in 

 1754, his 

 maiden speech Wm. U. Hamilton, 

 in 1755, which En S Ush Politician 

 Walpoledeclared never to have been 

 surpassed by anyone except Pitt, 

 earned him the title of " Single- 

 speech Hamilton." The sobriquet 

 is not quite accurate, as he after- 

 wards spoke with success in both 

 the English and Irish parliaments. 

 After serving as chief secretary to 

 the lord-lieutenant of Ireland, 

 Hamilton entered the Irish Parlia- 

 ment and from 1763-84 was chan- 

 cellor of the exchequer in that 

 country. He died July 16, 1796. 



Hamilton, SIR WILLIAM ROWAN 

 (1805-65). Irish mathematician. 

 Born at Dublin, Aug. 4, 1805, as a 

 boy he showed a remarkable apti- 

 tude for languages, reading Latin 

 and Greek, Persian, Arabic, and 

 nine other languages before the 

 age of thirteen. Intended by his 

 father for a post in the East India 

 Company, his great genius for 

 mathematics asserted itself, and 

 before his seventeenth birthday 

 he had detected a mistake in Lap- 

 lace's Mecanique Celeste. Sent to 

 Trinity College, Dublin, his bril- 

 liance soon attracted attention. 



Sir W. K. Hamilton, 

 Irish mathematician 



At the early age of 22 he was ap- 

 pointed professor of astronomy 

 to the university. In 1835 he 

 was knighted. 

 During these 

 years optics 

 owed him a 

 great debt for 

 his remark- 

 able theoreti- 

 cal researches, 

 the chief of 

 which resulted 

 in his predic- 

 tion of the 

 phenomenon of conical refraction, 

 leading to a remarkable proof of 

 the undulatory theory of light. 



The work by which Hamilton 

 was to become best known was a 

 system of mathematical analysis 

 known as Quaternions (<?.?-'.). The 

 method was published in his Lec- 

 tures on Quaternions, 1853, andThe 

 Elements of Quaternions, 1866. 

 He died Sept. 2, 1865. Consult 

 Life, Rev. R. P. Graves, 1883-89. 



Hamilton- Gordon, SIR ALEX- 

 ANDER (b. 1859). British soldier. 

 Born July 6, 1859, he was a grand- 

 son of the 4th earl of Aberdeen. 

 Educated at Winchester, he en- 

 tered the Royal Artillery in 1880, 

 and almost at once saw service in 

 Afghanistan. During the S. African 

 War he was appointed to the in- 

 telligence department. From 1904- 

 1 lie was .on the general staff at 

 headquarters. From 1910-14 he 

 was director of military operations 

 in India, and in Aug., 1914, he was 

 made commander-in-chief at Alder- 

 shot, retaining that position until 

 May, 1916, when he led a division 

 to France. A little later he was put 

 in command of the 9th (2nd Army) 

 Corps, which he led in the fighting 

 on the Lys, early in 1918, and after- 

 wards took to assist the French on 

 the Aisne. In 1918 he was knighted 

 and made a lieutenant-general. 



Hamilton Group. Series of 

 stratified rocks of marine origin, 

 found in N. America (New York 

 State, Pennsylvania. Ontario, etc. ). 

 They form the upper division of 

 Middle Devonian system hi that 

 region, and contain abundant fos- 

 sils (trilobites, brachiopods, etc.). 

 These rocks reach a thickness of 

 1,500 ft., and are extensively used 

 for building and paving purposes. 



Hamirpur. District, subdivision 

 and town of India, in the United 

 Provinces. The surface is flat and 

 fertile, and is watered by the Jum- 

 na, which flows along the N. boun- 

 dary, and other streams. The town 

 is the capital of the district, and 

 stands on the Jumna, 150 m. S.E. 

 of Agra. Area, district, 2,292 sq. 

 m. ; subdivision, 375 sq. m. Pop., 

 district, 465,223 ; subdivision, 

 79,506 ; town, 7,452. 



