The son of Professor William Hamilton (1758–1790); educated at Glasgow University, he served in the Peninsular War, befriended John Gibson Lockhart, and published a novel, Cyril Thornton (1827) and Men and Manners in America (1833).

REFERENCES TO Thomas Hamilton:

John Gibson Lockhart to Elizabeth Lockhart, 4 December 1809 in The Life and Letters of John Gibson Lockhart (London: John C. Nimmo, 1897)

John Gibson Lockhart to an anonymous correspondent, 20 February 1820 in The Life and Letters of John Gibson Lockhart (London: John C. Nimmo, 1897)

Sydney Smith to John Archibald Murray, 24 December 1833 in A Memoir of the Reverend Sydney Smith. By his Daughter, Lady Holland. With a Selection from his Letters, edited by Mrs. Austin 2 vols (London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1855)