William Hamilton of Bangour

(1704-1754)

NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Hamilton, William, 1704-1754 NRA: Hamilton William (1704-1754) Poet DNB: Hamilton, William, of Bangour (1704-1754), poet and Jacobite army officer LBT ID: WiHamil1754 VIAF ID: 69362348 LOC ID: nr91018169	B/BAP: 1704 DIED: 1754-03-25
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Scottish Jacobite poet who fought at Culloden and wrote “The Braes of Yarrow.”
REFERENCES TO William Hamilton of Bangour: Charles Lamb to Samuel Taylor Coleridge, [30 May 1796] in The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905) Found 1: ¶ 3 Lockhart, J. G. (John Gibson), 1794-1854, Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837) Chapter XII 1803-04 Found 1: ¶ 25 Charles Lamb, The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb. Letters (London: Methuen and Co., 1905) Letters: 1796 Found 1: ¶ 18