HAMDEN, JOHN, son of John Hamden, Croydon, Surrey; bapt. Croydon, Surrey 11 Aug 1577 (as Hamdon) (IGI); adm.; QS; elected head to Christ Church, Oxford 1595, matr. 27 Dec 1595, aged 18, Westminster Student to 1614; BA 1599; MA 1602; BD 1609; DD 1616; Proctor 1608; ordained; Rector of Chipstead, Surrey 1611; Rector of Little Bookham, Surrey 1613; d. 26 Jan 1631.

Hamel, Gustav Wilhelm, son of Gustav Hamel, M. D., M. V. O., of London; b. June 25, 1889; adm. Sept. 26, 1901 (A); left Easter 1907; became a pupil at the Blériot flying ground at Issy-les-Moulineaux in 1910; took his pilot's certificate in Feb. 1911; was the first official aerial postman; made his first cross-Channel flight from Boulogne to Wembley Park Oct. 11, 1911, and his first cross-Channel flight with a passenger in 1912; won the first 'Aerial Derby' a flight of 81 miles round London, June 8, 1912, and the second 'Aerial Derby' in the following year; flew from Dover to Cologne with a passenger in four hours and eighteen mins. in 1913; looped the loop fourteen times before the King at Windsor Feb. 2, 1914; author of Flying : Some Practical Experiences (1914); drowned in the Channel while flying from Paris to Hendon May 23, 1914; unm.

HAMERSLEY, ARTHUR, third son of Hugh Hamersley, Pyrton Manor, Oxfordshire, and his first wife Philippa Mary Anne, dau. of John Shaw Philipps, Culham House, Oxfordshire; b. 21 Mar 1841; adm. 6 Oct 1853 (G); left 1859; Exeter Coll. Oxford, matr. 9 Feb 1860; BA 1864; ordained; Rector of Nuffield, Oxfordshire, from 1867; m. 14 Feb 1865 Jane, dau. of Rev. William Toovey Hopkins, Rector of Nuffield, Oxfordshire; d. 21 Nov 1872.

Hamilton, Anthony Walter Patrick, son of Walter B. Hamilton, of the Middle Temple, writer and barrister-at-law, and Ellen Adèle, writer; b. 17 March, 1904; attended Holland House School, Hove (1912-13), Colet Court, Hammersmith (1915); adm. 26 Sept. 1918 (G); left April 1919; asst. stage man., actor (under Patrick Henderson), author and playwright, author of Monday Morning (1925), Rope (1929), Gas Light (1938) and Hangover Square (1941), along with numerous other works; m. 1st, 6 Aug. 1930 (div. 1953) Lois Marie Martin; 2nd, 10 Apr. 1954 Lady Ursula Chetwynd-Talbot, dau. of Viscount Ingestre; d. 23 Sept. 1962. DNB.

Hamilton, Arthur Douglas Bruce, son of Bernard Hamilton, of Pump Court, Temple, barrister-at-law; b. July 12, 1900; adm. Sept. 24, 1914 (H); left July 1915.

HAMILTON, FREDERICK, brother of Archibald Hamilton (adm. 1737, qv); b.; adm. (aged 11) Jan 1739/40 (Heath's); left 1746; Clare Hall, Cambridge, adm. pens. 29 May 1746, fellow commoner 20 Oct 1748; MA 1749; ordained deacon (London) 24 May 1752, priest (Peterborough) 14 Jan 1753; Vicar of Wellingborough, Northants., 20 Jan 1753-6; Archdeacon of Raphoe 1757-72; [? the Frederick Hamilton who was a Chaplain to George III in 1762-4 ?]; Rector of Stanton, Suffolk, from 1790; m. St. Mary, Dublin (IGI), 11 Jun 1757 Rachael Daniel [probably dau. of Rev. Thomas Daniell (sic), Londonderry, Ireland]; d. 19 Feb 1811.

Hamilton, Iain, son of Norman Fleming Hamilton of Abinger Common, Surrey, and Williamina Stewart, d. of John Russell of Johnstone, Renfrew; b. 21 Nov. 1935; adm. Sept. 1949 (B); left July 1953; a printer, journalist and poet; d. 15 July 1986.

HAMILTON, JOHN LEVESON, eldest son of Vice-Adm. Thomas Hamilton, Royal Navy, Much Hadham, Herts., and Sally --- (IGI); b. 30 Jun 1788; adm. 16 Jan 1798 (Clapham); in school list 1801; KS (Capt. ) 1803; elected to Trinity Coll. Cambridge 1807, but went to Christ Church, Oxford, matr. 13 May 1807; 1st cl. Maths 1810; BA 1811; adm. Lincoln’s Inn 7 Nov 1810; ordained; Rector of Ellesborough, Bucks., from 15 May 1823; m. 14 Aug 1819 Susan, eldest dau. of Rev. Dr. --- Woodward; d. 5 Apr 1825.

HAMILTON, JOHN RANDOLPH, son of Capt. John Randolph Hamilton, Chester, South Carolina, Confederate States Navy, and Mary Louisa Whaley, Charleston, South Carolina; b. 21 Mar 1860; adm. 21 Jan 1875 (G); left Dec 1877; entered tobacco trade; with Rover Company Ltd, Coventry, from 1886; m. 31 Dec 1883 Ethel Mary, dau. of John Herriot, Tweed Hill, Berwickshire.

HAMILTON, JOHN, second son of Hon. George Hamilton MP, and Bridget, dau. of Col. William Coward, Wells, Somerset, Virginia merchant; nephew of Hon. Charles Hamilton (qv); b.; adm. (aged 15) Jan 1741/2 (Heath's); left 1743; Univ. Coll. Oxford, matr. 17 Mar 1743/4; BA 1747; MA 1751; ordained; Archdeacon of Raphoe from 26 Feb 1754; d. unm. 12 Aug 1756.