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well Bridge. From this Robert Hamilton were descended several eminent men, particularly Thomas Hamilton, Professor of Anatomy in the University of Glasgow, who died in 1781, leaving one son, William, who succeeded him in that chair, and died in 1793, at the age of 33. He left two sons, one of whom, Sir William Hamilton, is the distinguished Professor of Logic in the University of Edinburgh, and the other, Captain Thomas Hamilton, is well known as the author of several productions of genius. From Gavin Hamilton of Airdrie, a race of not less eminent men traced their descent through the line of his second son William, who, after being some years minister of Cramond, became Professor of Divinity at Edinburgh in 1709, and Principal of the College in 1732. Among other men of great talents and literature who sprung from him, may be mentioned the late Dr Robert Hamilton, Professor of Mathetics at Aberdeen,—Dr Samuel Horsley, Bishop of St Asaph,—and Mr Cleghorn, Professor of History at St Andrews. Robert, one of the sons of Principal Hamilton, was many years a minister of Edinburgh, and in the year 1754 became Professor of Divinity. The subject of this memoir was
