Anthony Hamilton (archdeacon of Taunton)

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

Life

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 Harrow School, He was admitted in 1796 at St John's College, Cambridge, matriculating and graduating B.A. in 1800, graduating M.A. in 1803.[4]

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

Notes

  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. ^ "Hamilton, Anthony (HMLN796A)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
  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. ISBN 978-0-522-84459-7. ISSN 1833-7538. OCLC 70677943. Retrieved 16 October 2011.
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