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BIOGRAPHICAL MEMOIRS OF SIR EDWARD HAMILTON, KNIGHT

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 January 2011

Edited by
James Stanier Clarke  and
John McArthur
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“Let us be renowned when we may, and leave our fame behind us, like the last beams of the sun, when he hides his red face in the west.”

Ossian.

The distinguished subject of these Sketches, is the second son and youngest child of the late worthy Sir John Hamilton, Bart. of Marlborough-house, Hampshire, a Captain in his Majesty's navy, and brother to Sir Charles Hamilton, Bart. Captain of his Majesty's ship Melpomene, at present commanding on the coast of Africa. He was born on the 12th of March 1772, and may be truly called a son of Neptune, since at the age of seven (in the year 1779), he first went to sea, with his father, who then commanded his Majesty's ship Hector, of 74 guns, and served on board that ship in the West Indies till the year 1781, during which time he was in one general action with the French fleet, and experienced the dreadful hurricane of 1780. On the return of peace, our young mariner was sent to complete his classical education at the Royal Grammar School at Guildford, where he continued during three years. In 1787, he went again to sea to complete his time as a midshipman, and served until the year 1790, in the West Indies. In the Russian armament he served on board the Victory under the auspices of Lord Hood, appointed commander in chief of a squadron destined for the Baltic.

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The Naval Chronicle
Containing a General and Biographical History of the Royal Navy of the United Kingdom with a Variety of Original Papers on Nautical Subjects
 , pp. 1 - 96
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2010
First published in: 1801

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