HAMILTON, ---; b.; in under school list 1717.
HAMILTON, ---; b.; in school list 1729. [in sixth form : same individual as Hon. James Hamilton ?]
HAMILTON, ---; b.; in school lists 1740-6.
HAMILTON, GEORGE BURTON, son of Sir Ralph Hamilton, Kt., Groom of the Bedchamber to Frederick, Duke of Gloucester, and --- Green, London; b. 14 Oct 1804; adm. 22 May 1815; Min. Can. 1818; Corpus Christi Coll. Oxford, matr. 7 Jun 1823, exhibitioner 1823-7; BA 1827; MA 1830; ordained deacon 1828, priest 1829 (both London); Chaplain, Chelmsford Gaol, Essex 1842-77; m. 1837 Sarah Catherine, dau. of John T. Deal, Shaftesbury, Dorset; d. 6 Jan 1886.
Hamilton-Johnston, Douglas Charles, eldest son of Augustus Hamilton:Johnston, of Chelsea, by Bessie, daughter of Major-Gen. Patrick Robertson-Ross, C. B., of Glenmoidart, Inverness-shire; b. May 20, 1889; adm. from Charterhouse Sept. 22, 1904 (G); left July 1906; matric. at London Univ. and afterwards went to Frankfurt; R. M.C. Sandhurst 1908; 2nd Lieut. 2nd Batt. the Black Watch (the Royal Highlanders) Feb. 24, 1909; Lieut. Feb. 14, 1912; Capt. Feb. 25, 1915; temp. Major Jan. 7, 1916; arrived with his batt. from India at the western front in Oct. 1914; wounded in Dec. 1914, and again in May 1915; was invalided home after the second casualty; returned to the western front in Nov. following, and at the end of the month went with his batt. to Mesopotamia; mentioned in despatches L. G. Dec. 1, 1916; killed in action at El Shaad, Mesopotamia, while leading his batt. against the Turks Jan. 21, 1916; unm.
HAMILTON-ROWAN, ARCHIBALD, only son of Gawin Hamilton, Killyleagh Castle, co. Down, and Jane, widow of Tichborne Aston, Beaulieu, near Drogheda, co. Louth, and only dau. of William Rowan, Rathbone Place, London, barrister; b. 12 May 1751; in school lists 1764, 1765, 1767; assumed additional surname of Rowan on grandfather’s death in 1767; Queens’s Coll. Cambridge, adm. pens. 22 Jun 1768; one of the four “mohawks” who scandalised London society in 1771-4 (Hickey, i, 273-8, 309-10); went to live in Ireland 1784; a delegate for Co. Down to Volunteer Convention at Dublin; joined Society of United Irishmen 1791, becoming Secretary of their Dublin Committee; arrested on charge of distributing a seditious newspaper and found guilty in Court of Kings Bench, Dublin, Jan 1794; sentenced to fine of £500, two years’ imprisonment and to find security for good behaviour for seven years; escaped to France from the Dublin Newgate prison, and after living in Paris for more than a year went to the USA, where he became a calico printer; returned to Europe 1800, and to England 1803; on reversal of his outlawry returned to Killyleagh; m. 6 Oct 1781 Sarah Anne, dau. of William Dawson, Lisanisk, near Carrickmacross, co. Monaghan; d. 1 Nov 1834. DNB.
HAMMOND, THOMAS; b.; at school under Markham (Bentham, Works, x, 30); a contemporary of Jeremy Bentham (qv), who describes him as a “dull boy” and says that he afterwards “became a member of the College of Cursitors”; one of the Cursitors for Somerset, Lincolnshire and city of Lincoln, from 17 Jun 1769 (still 1783), having previously been a clerk in the Cursitors’ Office; Assistant, Corporation of Cursitors (London Calendar 1793) (will proved PCC 9 Jul 1799, of Cursitors’ Office).
HAMOND, HENRY CARR WILLIAM, elder son of Rev. Henry Hamond, Rector of Widford, Herts., and Sophia, dau. of Rev. Dr. --- Edridge [perhaps Rev. Charles Lucas Edridge DD, Rector of Shipdam, Norfolk, and Minister of Oxford Chapel, Vere Street, London]; b. 18 Jun 1834; adm. 29 Jan 1847 (G); had his nose broken with “a fair-showing book” in a scrimmage up Grant’s (Markham, Recollections of a Town Boy, 75); Ensign, 46th Foot 20 Jan 1854; Lieut., 8 Dec 1854; Capt., 6 Jun 1859; served Crimean War; d. 4 Aug 1870.
HANCOCK, GEORGE; b.; adm.; QS; a contributor to the collection of congratulatory verses to Queen Elizabeth written by the QSS in 1597 (British Museum, Royal MSS); St. John’s Coll. Cambridge, sizar, matr. 1598; BA 1601/2; ordained deacon 22 Sep 1605, priest 22 Dec 1605, aged 25; Curate, Shottesham, Norfolk; a schoolmaster there in 1604.
HANCOCK, WILLIAM; b.; adm.; QS; a contributor to the collection of verses written by the QSS on the death of Lady Elizabeth Cecil in 1597 (Salisbury MSS, Hatfield House); St. John’s Coll. Cambridge, pensioner, matr. c. 1597; BA 1602/3; MA 1606 (incorp. Oxford 14 Jul 1607); Fellow of Pembroke Hall 25 May 1606; ordained priest (Peterborough) 24 Sep 1609.