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 HAMILTON, Colonel Gawin William Rowan-, D.L., J.P., Co. Down (High Sheriff, 1875); late Capt. 7th Dragoon Gds.; late Col. Comdg. 3rd Batt. Royal Irish Fusiliers; eldest lineal male representative of the Hamiltons, Earls of Clanbrassil; b. 7th March, 1844; eldest son of late Archibald Rowan Hamilton, of Killyleagh Castle, Captain 5th Dragoon Guards, and Catherine, dau. of Rev. George Caldwell; m. 1876, Lina, dau. of Sir G. H. Beaumont, 9th Bart., and has issue one dau. Educ.: Cheltenham College; University College, Oxford; served in the Oxford University Volunteer Corps; has travelled in America, Canada, Europe, and North Africa, and in early life took part in racing, hunting, and other field sports; for some years Master of the Killyleagh Harriers. Pubns.: The Last of the Cornets; Betwixt Two Lovers; The Second Answer. Recn: foreign travel Res.: Killyleagh Castle, Co. Down. Clubs: Naval and Military, London; Down Hunt, Ulster.

'''HAMILTON, Rt. Hon. Lord George Francis''', P.C; G.C.S.I. (1903); D.C.L.; D.L. and J.P. for Middlesex and Westminster: entered Rifle Brigade. 1864, transferred to Coldstream Guards, 1868; retired 1869; Under-Secretary of State for India (1874-78); Vice-President of Council on Education, and 4th Charity Commissioner, 1878-80; First Lord of the Admiralty, 1885-6, and 1886-92; Chairman, London School Board, 1894-5; Secretary of State for India, 1895-1903; Chairman of Royal Commission upon Poor Laws, Ac, 1905-9; Chairman, Harrow School Governors; Captain, Deal Castle, 1899; M.P. for Middlesex, 1868-1906; Chairman, Mesopotamia Commission, 1916-17: third son of the 1st Duke of Abercorn, K.G.; b. 1845; m. 28th Nov., 1871, Lady. Maude Caroline Lascelles, youngest dau. of the 3rd Earl of Harewood, and has issue three sons. Res.: 17 Montagu Street, W.; The Castle, Deal. Carlton, St. Stephen's, and Athenaeum Clubs, London, S.W.

HAMILTON, Capt. John Stewart, J.P., Co. Donegal (High Sheriff, 1898); late Capt. 5th Batt. Royal Inniskilling Fus.; only son of late Jas. Hamilton, D.L., J.P., of Brown Hall, Co. Donegal; b. 1864; m. 1911, Winifred, dau. of late Percy Weston, of Greenfield, East Sheen. Res.: Brown Hall, Ballintra, Donegal.

HAMILTON, Col. Robert Sydney, C.M.G. (1915), D.S.O. (1918), R.A.; served in S. African War, 1899-1902; European War, 1914; Col. Royal Army Ord. Corps from 1911; son of Ven. F. C. Hamilton, Archdeacon of Limerick; b. 1871; m. 1902, Mary, dau. of Sir Alexander Shaw, of Limerick. Res.: Malvern House, Churchfields, Salisbury.

HAMILTON, The Rev. The Right Hon. Thomas, P.C. (1921), M.A. (Q.U.I.), Hon. D.D. (Belfast and Aberdeen), Hon. LL.D. (R.U.I.): ordained, 1865; was Examiner in Botany and Zoology to Intermediate Education Board, Ireland, 1878-80; President of Queen's College, Belfast, 1889-1908; Senator of Royal University of Ireland, 1890-1908; President and Vice-Chancellor of the Queen's University of Belfast from 1908. Pubns.: Faithful unto Death, a Memoir of Rev. David Hamilton, 1875; Irish Worthies, 1875; Our Rest Day, 1885; History of the Irish Presbyterian Church, 1886; Beyond the Stars. 1888; many articles in Nat. Dict. of Biography, 1886-1912; son of late Rev. David Hamilton (Moderator of General Assembly, 1854-55), and Eliza, dau. of Henry Weir, of Banbridge. Co. Down; b. 1842; m. 1876, Frances, dau. of Robert Allen, of the Farm, Co. Londonderry. Recns.: cycling, autograph collecting, gardening; Res.: Elmwood House. Belfast.

'''HAMILTON, Lieut.-Col. William John Paumier''', J.P., Co. Donegal; late Director Donegal Railway Co. Educ.: Portora Royal School and Trinity College, Dublin; Lieut. 41st The Welsh Regt., and Lieut.-Col. Royal Cork City Artillery; was Quarter-Master of the Londonderry Remount Establishment during the War; only son of His Honour Judge Hamilton, Recorder of Cork. Res.: Missvill, Glenties, Co. Donegal.

HAMILTON, Catherine Jane, younger dau. of the Rev. Richard Hamilton, Vicar of Kilmersdon, Somerset, and Charlotte Cooper, fourth dau. of William Cooper, of Cooper's Hill, Carlow. Author of True to the Core, a romance of '98 (F. White, London) Notable Irishwomen; The Luck of the Kavanaghs (Sealy, Bryers and Walker). Has written short stories relating to Ireland for the Graphic Xmas. numbers, for Cassell's Newspaper Press Agency, and for the Northern Newspaper Syndicate. Res.: Middleton House, Gorey, Co. Wexford. Club: The Women Writers, 10 Norfolk Street, Strand, London.

HAMILTON-STUBBER, Major Robert, D.S.O. (1916), D.L., J.P.. Queen's Co.: served in S. African War, 1901-2 with Impl. Yeo.: Capt. 1st Life Gds., 1906; European War, 1915-8; Major, Sth. Irish Horse, 1914, 1st Life Gds. from 1918 (despatches): only son of late Robert Hamilton-Stubber, D.L., J.P., of Moyne, Durrow; b. 1879; m. 1920, Lady Mabel Florence, M.B.E., second dau. of 4th Earl of Erne, and widow of Capt. Lord Hugh William Grosvenor. Res.: Moyne, Durrow, Queen's Co Kildare Street Club, Dublin.<section end="Hamilton-Stubber, Major Robert" />