HAMILTON, HON. WILLIAM, brother of James Hamilton, 6th Earl of Abercorn (S); b. c. 1668; d. 1737. “see new slip”]
HAMILTON, SIR WILLIAM, brother of Archibald Hamilton (adm. 1737, qv); b. 13 Dec 1730; adm. Jan 1739/40 (Heath's); left 1746; Ensign, 3rd Foot Guards 27 Jan 1747; Lieut. and Capt., 8 Jun 1753; retd. 1757; Equerry to George III 1760 – 7 Nov 1782; MP Midhurst Mar 1761 – Aug 1764; Envoy Extraordinary at Naples 1764-7, Minister Plenipotentiary there 1767- Apr 1800; KB 15 Jan 1772; Privy Councillor 8 Jun 1791; sold a collection of Greek vases and antiquities to British Museum 1772, and another collection to Thomas Hope of Deepdene 1801; purchased the Warwick Vase from Gavin Hamilton and the Portland Vase from James Byres; entertained Nelson at Naples after the Battle of the Nile 1798; accompanied the Neapolitan Court to Palermo Dec 1798; FRS 6 Nov 1766, Copley Medal 1770; FSA 6 Feb 1772; Society of Dilettanti 1777; DCL Oxford 30 Jul 1802; author, Campi Phlegraei, 1776; m. 1st, 25 Jan 1758 Catherine, eldest dau. of Hugh Barlow, Lawrenny Hall, Pembs.; m. 2nd, 6 Sep 1791 Emma Hart (DNB), dau. of Henry Lyon, Neston, Cheshire, blacksmith; d. 6 Apr 1803. DNB.
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.
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HAMLYN, L.; b.; in school lists 1801 and May 1803; left 1803.
HAMLYN-WILLIAMS, SIR JAMES, BART., eldest son of Sir James Hamlyn (formerly Hammett), Bart. MP, and Arabella, dau. of Thomas Williams, Edwinsford, Carmarthenshire; b. 25 Oct 1765; adm. 21 Apr 1773 (as Hamlyn); in school lists 1781; had a “mill” with Frederick Reynolds (qv), with whom he had quarrelled while playing football in the Cloisters (Life and Times of Frederick Reynolds, 1846, i, 137); Emmanuel Coll. Cambridge, adm. fellow comnmoner 11 Nov 1782, matr. Mich. 1785; assumed additional surname of Williams 6 Mar 1798 on succeeding to mother’s estates; MP Carmarthenshire 1802-6; succ. father as 2nd baronet 28 May 1811; High Sheriff, Carmarthenshire 1811-2; m. 22 Jul 1789 Diana Anne, second dau. of Abraham Whittaker, Lyston House, Herefordshire, and Stratford, Essex, merchant; d. 3 Dec 1829, aged 64.
HAMLYN-WILLIAMS, ORLANDO, youngest son of Sir James Hamlyn-Williams, Bart. (qv); b.; adm. 6 Apr 1812; left 14 May 1819; Balliol Coll. Oxford, matr. 20 Mar 1820; BA 1824; MA 1827; ordained; Rector of Clovelly, Devon, from 21 Nov 1826; m. 9 Mar 1831 Mary Anne Elizabeth, dau. of Rev. Charles Pyne Coffin, Rector of East Down, Devon; d. 30 Nov 1831, aged 30.