Hamilton (COSMO an English dramatist)
COSMO, an English dramatist and novelist. His first apprenticeship was in journalism, and after holding various positions became editor of the "London World." When the war broke out he was gazetted as sublieutenant, R. N. A. S. His works include: Novels "Adam's Clay"; "Brummell"; "The Blindness of Virtue"; "Duke's Son"; "The Miracle of Love"; plays "The Wisdom of Folly"; "A Sense of Humor"; "The Mountain Climber"; "Bridge"; "Arsene Lupin"; "Mrs. Skeffington"; "The Blindness of Virtue."
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Hamilton (II)
LADY EMMA, born AMY LYON, an English adventuress; born probably in Ness, Cheshire, England, April 26, 1763. She had had three places in London, had borne two children to a navy captain and a baronet, and had posed as Hygeia in a quack-doctor's "Temple of Health," when in 1782 she accepted the protection of the Hon. Charles Greville (1749-1809), to exchange it in 1786 for that of his uncle, Sir William Hamilton (1730-1803). After five years at Naples, in 1791 she was married at Marylebone Church to her elderly ambassador, and, returning to Italy, was straightway admitted to the closest intimacy by Maria Caroline, the queen of Ferdinand I. Her "eminent services" to the British fleet during 1796-1798 in furnishing information and procuring supplies were extolled by Lord Nelson and vaunted by herself. Nelson had first met her in 1793; and gradually Platonic friendship ripened to guilty passion, till, four months after the trio's return to England, she gave birth to a daughter (1801-1881), "our beloved Horatia," so Nelson writes of her in a holograph letter to "my own dear Wife, in my eyes and the face of Heaven." Her credulous husband's death, followed four years later by Nelson's, left Emma mistress of $10,000 a year; but by 1808 she was owing $90,000, and in 1813 was arrested for debt. Next year she escaped to Calais, where she died in penury, Jan. 15, 1815.
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Hamilton (III)
FRANK HASTINGS, an American surgeon; born in Wilmington, Vt., Sept. 10, 1813. He was graddepartment of uated from the medical the University of Pennsylvania in 1833, N. Y. In and first practiced in Auburn, 1844 he went to Buffalo, and, with Dr. Austin Flint and Dr. James Platt White, established the medical department of the University of Buffalo. He removed to Brooklyn in 1860, and was the first of Surgery in the Long Island Professor College Hospital. In 1861 he went to the war as surgeon of the 31st New York Volunteers and was made brigade surgeon after the battle of Bull Run, and surgeon of General Keyes' corps in 1862. A year later he was made medical inspector of the United States army. He was one of the founders of Bellevue Hospital Medical College in 1861, and was Professor of Surgery there till he resigned in 1875. Dr. Hamilton was associated with Drs. Agnew and Bliss in the care of President Garfield. He wrote extensively on the principles and practice of surgery. He died in New York City, Aug. 11, 1886.
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Hamilton (PATRICK usually considered)
PATRICK, usually considered as the first Scotch reformer, the second son of Sir Patrick Hamilton of Kincavel and Stanehouse, and of Catherine, daughter of the Duke of Albany, second son of James II.; born probably in Glasgow, in 1504. He was educated partly at St. Andrews and partly at Paris, where he took his degree in 1520. While still a boy he had been appointed Abbot of Fearn, in Rosshire, but never went into residence, settling instead at St. Andrews in 1523. Here he began to announce his convictions in the principles of the Reformation, and was summoned in 1526 by Archbishop Beaton to stand his trial for heresy. He fled to Germany, where his education as a reformer was completed by an intimate acquaintance with Luther and Melanchthon. After six months' absence he returned to Scotland, and began to preach the Gospel bel openly at Linlithgow, but was allured by Beaton to St. Andrews under pretense of a friendly conference, put on his trial, convicted of various heresies, and burned at the stake, March 1, 1527. His death did perhaps more to extend the principles of the Reformation in Scotland than even his life could have done.
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Hamilton (Town of Lanarkshire Scotland)
a town of Lanarkshire, Scotland, on the Clyde; 10 miles S. E. of Glasgow. The principal edifice is the burgh building (1863), with a clocktower nearly 130 feet high; and there are also the county buildings, large barracks, and a good race-course. The former manufactures of lace, tamboured bobinette, and cambric have declined; and mining is now the chief industry of the district. Hamilton was made a royal burgh in 1548, and one of the five Falkirk parliamentary burghs in 1832. Hamilton Palace, successor to Cadzow Castle, is the seat of the Duke of Hamilton. Dating partly from 1594, but greatly enlarged in 1705 and 1822, it is a sumptuous classical structure, though its choicest art collections were sold in 1882 for nearly $2,000,000. Within its policies are a superb mausoleum (1852), the ruins of Cadzow Castle, the herd of wild white cattle, and some primeval oaks. Pop. about 39,531.
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Hamilton College
an educational non-sectarian institution in Clinton, N. Y., founded in 1812; reported at the close of 1919: Professors and instructors, 27; students, 298; volumes in the library, 84,000; productive funds, $1,- 478,000; income, $177,883; president, Frederick Carlos Ferry, Ph. D.; Sc. D., LL. D.
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Hamites
a term employed by writers to denote the white people of Africa prior to the inroads of the Arabs. The subdivisions are recognized as: 1. The Berbers, originally a blonde race inhabiting what became known as the Barbary States. The natives of the Canary Islands are probably Berbers. 2. The inhabitants of the valley of the Nile. These were a red-headed people, still represented among the peasant Egyptians. 3. A brown or black haired people, the inhabitants of ancient Ethiopia. Modern representatives are the Galla and the Somali tribes. There has been much intermingling of Arabic and particularly of negro blood. 2026 Editor's Note: This page uses language about race that was commonplace when the book was published and is offensive by today's standards. The text has been left exactly as it was printed, rather than cut or softened, so that the historical record — including how ordinary such language once was — is preserved. (Ed: BR 2026-07-22)
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