NAME AUTHORITIES: LOC: Hamilton, Thomas, 1789-1842 DNB: Hamilton, Thomas (1789–1842), novelist and travel writer LBT ID: ThHamil1842 VIAF ID: 11931 LOC ID: n90636074 | B/BAP: 1789 DIED: 1842-12-07 |
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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). | |