Douglas Hamilton, the youngest of eight sons of Charles 
Hamilton of Sudbury Grove, Middlesex, and of Kenswortli House, 
Herts, was born on the 8th of April, iSl8, and was educated at 
Harrow School, In 1S34 he went to Addiscombe, and received his 
commission in the Indian Army in 1S37, being gazetted to the 21st 
Regiment of Madras. Native Infantry ; embarking at Portsmouth in 
the "Duke of Argylc on September ist of the same year, and 
arriving in the Madras Roads on the the 14th December. By the 
advice of his uncle Captain George Feevor of His Majesty's i;th 
Foot, who had served in the Ncpaul Campaign of i Si 5-16 and in 
the Mahratta and Pindaree wars, 1817-18, including the capture 
of Jubbulporc, he kept a journal from the day he embarked for 
Madras in 183710 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 ist Regiment M,NJ,, who 
was afterwards so well known to all Southern Indian sportsmen as 
the author of " Game " under the soubriquet of " Hawkey e." 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. 
