
Anthony Hamilton (1739 – 1812) was an Anglican priest,
Archdeacon of Colchester from 1775.
Life
Born 1739, his father Alexander Hamilton was the fifth son of
William Hamilton the Scottish antiquarian, who died in 1724. He had married the heiress Charlotte Styles, and so acquired the Essex manor of Holyfield (Hallifield), in the north-east of the parish of
Waltham Holy Cross which remained in the family into the 19th century. The Hamilton family owned also the Debden Hall farm and estate (see
Debden House). The owner of Debden Hall was Alex. Hamilton on a map of 1777. Venn's ''Alumni Cantabrigienses'' proposes the identification of Alexander Hamilton as the London solicitor of the name.
He moved to
Loughton, transferring the remains of Charlotte and three children to be reburied there in 1744.
Anthony Hamilton junior was a younger son of the marriage. He was educated at
Harrow School and entered
Corpus Christi College, Cambridge in 1755. He graduated B.A. there in 1760, M.A. in 1763, and D.D. in 1775.
Ordained deacon in 1762 and priest in 1763, he became vicar of
Fulham
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, and then in 1766 of
Orsett in
Essex
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. In 1770, on the death of
John Jortin, he became
Archdeacon of London, giving up the post in 1775 to become
Archdeacon of Colchester. He was elected a Fellow of the
Society of Antiquaries of London
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in 1773, and of the
Royal Society
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in 1777.
In 1776, Hamilton became rector of
Much Hadham in
Hertfordshire and gave up his Fulham living; he became also vicar of
St Martin-in-the-Fields.
In the 1790s, he lived on
Savile Row, London. He died in 1812, and was buried at Loughton, with memorials set up in the Much Hadham and
Little Hadham churches.
Family
Hamilton married Anne Terrick, daughter of
Richard Terrick. Their first son was
William Richard Hamilton and their second son
Anthony Hamilton the
Archdeacon of Taunton and the father of Bishop
Walter Kerr Hamilton.
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1739 births
1812 deaths
18th-century English Anglican priests
Alumni of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge
Archdeacons of Colchester
Archdeacons of London
Fellows of the Royal Society
Fellows of the Society of Antiquaries of London
People educated at Harrow School
People from East Hertfordshire District
Burials in Essex