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HAMILTON.
the Coast Guard – the last four years as an Inspecting-Lieutenant.
Lieut. Hamilton married, 28 Dec. 1830, Ann, daughter of John Miller, Esq., of Rossyvolan House and Ballintree, co. Donegal, a lady connected with many of the principal families in the north of Ireland, by whom he has issue four sons and three daughters.
HAMILTON. (Lieut., 1810. f-p., 16; h-p., 32.)
William Hamilton entered the Navy, in Aug. 1799, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Resolution 74, Capts. Wm. Mitchell and Alan Hyde Gardner, of which ship, successively stationed in the Channel and West Indies, he became Midshipman 17 Dec. 1800. In Feb. 1803, having been unemployed since the preceding July, he joined the Hound, Capt. Keith Maxwell, with whom, on returning to the West Indies after visiting the Baltic, he removed to the Shark sloop, and next to the Tartar frigate. While attached, between Sept. 1804 and Sept. 1808, to the Franchise 36, Capts. Hon. John Murray and Chas. Dashwood, Mr. Hamilton bore hie full share in a variety of active services. On the night of 6 Jan. 1806, in particular, he proved instrumental to the achievement of an exploit of more than ordinary gallantry, nothing less than the cutting-out, in Campeachy Bay, of a Spanish corvette El Raposa, carrying 12 guns and 75 men, besides swivels and cohorns; which vessel, after an obstinate conflict of 10 minutes’ duration, and a loss to the enemy of 5 men killed and 26 wounded, was boarded and carried by the British, who, in three boats with 64 men, of whom only 7 were wounded, had also to contend against a brig of 20 guns, a schooner of 8 guns, and 7 gun-vessels. On leaving the Franchise, Mr. Hamilton successively became Acting-Lieutenant, 12 Sept. 1808 and 6 Jan. 1809, of the Polyphemus 64, flag-ship of Admiral Bartholomew Sam. Rowley, and Daedalus frigate, Capt. Sam. Hood Inglefield. In Sept. of the latter year he went back, in a similar capacity, to the Franchise, and continued in that ship on the Jamaica station until confirmed 20 Jan. 1810. He then joined the Rose sloop, commanded in the Baltic by Capt. Thos. Mansell, and, invaliding from that vessel in Sept. 1812, was next (appointed – 27 March, 1813, to the Doterbl 16, Capt. Wm. Westcott Daniel, on the Jamaica and Halifax stations – and, 1 Oct. 1814, to the command there of the Shelburne schooner, in which he remained until June, 1816. He has since been on half-pay.
Lieut. Hamilton holds the appointment of Branch Pilot at Nassau. He has received a gratuity, we are informed, from the Patriotic Fund.
HAMILTON. (Captain, 1828. f-p., 13; h-p., 18.)
William Alexander Baillie Hamilton, born 6 June, 1803, at Normanby, co. York, is third son of the late Ven. Chas. Baillie Hamilton, Archdeacon of Cleveland, by Lady Charlotte Home, youngest daughter of the ninth, and aunt of the present, Earl of Home; brother of Sir Geo. Baillie Hamilton, K.C.H., H.M. Minister at the Court of Tuscany, and of Commander Cospatrick Baillie Hamilton, R.N.; first-cousin of Capt. Thos. Baillie, R.N. (to whose family connections refer); and second-cousin of the present Earl of Haddington, late Lord Privy Seal.
This officer entered the Navy, 28 Aug. 1816, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Rochfort 80, commanded at Portsmouth by Capt. Sir Arch. Collingwood Dickson, with whom he served until his removal, in April, 1817, to the Royal Naval College. In Oct. 1819 he again embarked on board the Vigo 74, Capt. Thos. Brown, fitting for the flag of Rear-Admiral Robt. Lambert, but was soon afterwards transferred to the Active 46, Capt. Sir Jas. Alex. Gordon, in which we find him visiting the Mediterranean, and, in Aug. 1821, attending George IV. to Ireland. After a further attachment of nearly two years to the Euryalus 42, Capt. Aug. Wm. Jas. Clifford, and Revenue 78, flag-ship of Sir Harry Burrard Neale, both on the Mediterranean station, Mr. Hamilton was promoted, 1 Dec. 1823, to a Lieutenancy in his old frigate, the Active, Capt. Andrew King, then off Lisbon. He was subsequently appointed – 26 Jan. 1824, to the Blanche 46, Capt. Wm. Bowen Mends, in which ship he conveyed Vice- Admiral Lord Amelius Beauclerk to the Tagus, and next proceeded to South America – 2 Dec. 1824, to the Windsor Castle 74, Capt. Hugh Downman, lying at Plymouth – 26 July, 1825, to the Druid 46, Capt. Sam. Chambers, forming part of an experimental squadron – 1 March, 1826, to the Ganges 84, fitting for the flag of Rear-Admiral Robt. Waller Otway – and, lastly, to the Blonde 46. In that frigate he immediately proceeded to Bermuda with despatches for the Commander-in-Chief, Rear-Admiral Willoughby Thos. Lake, by whom, on his arrival, he was placed in command of the Doterel sloop. His promotion meeting with official sanction, 17 Nov. 1826, Capt. Hamilton was next, 2 July, 1827, appointed to the Pelican 18, in the Mediterranean; previously, however, to joining which vessel he appears to have elicited the approbation of Sir Edw. Codrington, while employed by that Admiral in communicating with the officer in command of the Turkish forces in the Morea. He afterwards watched the harbour of Navarin, until at length enabled to report to the Commander-in-Chief at Malta the intelligence of its evacuation by the remains of the enemy’s fleet; and, in Oct. 1828, he witnessed the final departure of Ibrahim Pacha’s army from the Morea. Capt. Hamilton, who, during his cruize off that peninsula, as well as with Sir Thos. Staines at Grabusa, had been very efficaciously employed in the suppression of piracy, and had been advanced to Post-rank by commission dated 9 Aug. 1828, resigned the command of the Pelican on 1 Dec. in the same year. He has not since been afloat.
Capt. Hamilton was appointed, in 1841, Private Secretary to his relative. Lord Haddington, then First Lord of the Admiralty, and after acquiring, in the discharge of the duties of that delicate and important post, the affection and esteem of the Service to an extent, we believe, unparalleled, was selected, in Jan. 1845, to succeed Sir John Barrow, Bart., in the Second-Secretaryship of the Admiralty.[1] He married, 15 Aug. 1836, Lady Harriet Hamilton, sister of the Marquess of Abercorn, and daughter of the late Viscount Hamilton, by Harriet, grand-daughter of the 15th Earl of Moreton, who, on the Viscount’s death, married, secondly, the present Earl of Aberdeen, late H.M. Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs. Capt. Hamilton has issue a son and two daughters. Agent – Joseph Woodhead.
HAMILTON. (Captain, 1836. f-p., 16; h-p., 21.)
William Price Hamilton died 21 May, 1847, at Belair, near Plymouth, in the 46th year of his age. This officer entered the Navy, 2 Aug. 1810, as Fst.-cl. Vol., on board the Scipion 74, Capts. Philip . Chas. Butler Bateman and Jas. Johnstone, bearing the flag of Hon. Robt. Stopford, whom he accompanied to the Cape of Good Hope. Being there lent to the Harpy 18, Capt. Henderson Bain, he joined in the operations of 1811 against the island of Java, where he appears to have been very actively employed in the erection of batteries. On returning, as Midshipman, in Jan. 1812, to the Scipion, he proceeded in that ship with Capt. Hen. Heathcote to the Mediterranean, and was for some time engaged at the blockade of Toulon. In Jan. 1816, after a voyage to the Brazils in the Centaur 74, Capt. Thos. Gordon Caulfeild, and a second visit to the Cape, Mr. Hamilton was received on board the Granicus 36, Capt. Wm. Furlong Wise, by whom, for his conduct when stationed in the fore-top of that ship at the ensuing battle of Algiers, he was recommended in a very strong manner to Hon. Sir Hen. Blackwood, on that officer assuming the chief command in the East Indies. From Oct.
- ↑ In 1835, when Lord Haddington filled the office of Lord Lieutenant of Ireland. Captain Hamilton had also acted as his Lordship’s private secretary.
