Anthony Hamilton (archdeacon of Taunton)

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Anthony Hamilton (12 July 1778 – 10 September 1851)[1] was Archdeacon of Taunton[2] from 5 December 1827 until his death.[3]

Life[edit]

He was the younger son of Anthony Hamilton (Archdeacon of Colchester) and his wife Anne Terrick, daughter of Richard Terrick. His older brother was William Richard Hamilton.

Hamilton was educated at St John's College, Cambridge.[4]

He married Charity Graeme, third daughter of Sir Walter Farquhar, 1st Baronet, physician to the prince regent, and their eldest son was Walter Kerr Hamilton[5] and their younger son was Edward William Terrick Hamilton.[6]

Notes[edit]

  1. ^ "Bequests." Bristol Mercury (Bristol, England), Saturday, September 27, 1851; Issue 3210
  2. ^ "Memorials of Cambridge" Cooper, CH p135: Cambridge, CUP, 2012 ISBN 9781108043953
  3. ^ Horn, Joyce M. (1979), Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae 1541–1857, vol. 5, pp. 16–18
  4. ^ Alumni Cantabrigienses: A Biographical List of All Known Students, Graduates and Holders of Office at the University of Cambridge, from the Earliest Times to 1900, John Venn/John Archibald Venn Cambridge University Press > (10 volumes 1922 to 1953) Part II. 1752–1900 Vol. ii Chalmers – Fytche (1944) p210
  5. ^ Greenhill, William Alexander (1890). "Hamilton, Walter Kerr" . In Stephen, Leslie; Lee, Sidney (eds.). Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 24. London: Smith, Elder & Co.
  6. ^ Robertson, J R. "Hamilton, Edward William Terrick (1809–1898)". Australian Dictionary of Biography. National Centre of Biography, Australian National University. ISSN 1833-7538. Retrieved 16 October 2011.