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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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International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) 2nd edition
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Users should note that the information recorded here that is not to be found in the first two volumes of the Record of Old Westminsters and its first Supplement has been assembled from various published and manuscript sources by Hugh Edmund Pagan MA FSA, and all new resulting text is his copyright, © 2014.
The Record of Old Westminsters: A biographical list of all those who are known to have been educated at Westminster School from the earliest times to 1927, Volumes 1 & 2, compiled by G. F. Russell Barker and Alan H. Stenning, London, 1928.