Gavin Hamilton

(d. 1846)

LBT ID: GaHamil1846	DIED: 1846
SOURCES: Scots Magazine (August 1796) 367; Sir Bernard Burke, A Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Colonial Gentry (1891) 60
Minister of Hoy and Graemsay in Orkney; in 1796 he married Penelope Macaulay (d. 1806), the sister of Zachary Macaulay who was the father of the historian.
REFERENCES TO Gavin Hamilton: Lockhart, J. G. (John Gibson), 1794-1854, Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Chapter V 1814 Found 1: ¶ 15