Douglas Hamilton, the youngest of eight sons of Charles 

 Hamilton of Sudbury Grove, Middlesex, and of Kensworth House, 

 Herts, was born on the 8th of April, 1818, and was educated at 

 Harrow School. In 1834 he went to Addiscombe, and received his 

 commission in the Indian Army in 1837, being gazetted to the 21st 

 Regiment of Madras Native Infantry; embarking at Portsmouth in 

 the "Duke of Argyle " on September 1st of the same year, and 

 arriving in the Madras Roads on the the 14th December. By the 

 advice of his uncle Captain George Peevor of His Majesty's 17th 

 Foot, who had served in the Nepaul Campaign of 1815-16 and in 

 the Mahratta and Pindaree wars, 1817-18, including the capture 

 of Jubbulpore, he kept a journal from the day he embarked for 

 Madras in 1837 to the day of his death in 1892, and fourteen thick 

 quarto volumes, most carefully written, record all the successes and 

 the failures of his sporting life in India as well as many other 

 interesting events. 



In the same Presidency, but his senior in the Service as in years 

 was his brother Richard, a Captain in the 1st Regiment M.N. I., who 

 was afterwards so well known to all Southern Indian sportsmen as 

 the author of " Game " under the soubriquet of " Havvkeye." Although 

 as fond of sport as his elder brother, Douglas Hamilton was, in his 

 younger days, a very indifferent shot, especially with the rifle, and he 

 had to stand a good deal of chaff from his brother officers ; but in 

 course of time by dint of patience, perseverance, and determination, 

 he became one of the best rifle shots in the Presidency, and a better 

 sportsman never pulled a trigger. 



