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	William Hamilton (diplomat) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Sir William Douglas Hamilton (December 13, 1730–April 6, 1803) was a Scottish diplomat, antiquarian, archaeologist and volcanologist.
		Hamilton was the fourth son of Lord Archibald Hamilton, governor of Jamaica.
		Hamilton was England's ambassador to the court of Naples from 1764 - 1800.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/William_Hamilton_(diplomat) (298 words)

	William John Hamilton Papers, American Philosophical Society
		William John Hamilton (1805-1867) English geologist and eldest son of the famed antiquarian and purchaser of the Rosetta Stone, William Richard Hamilton (1777-1859), studied at the University of Goettingen from 1825-1827.
		William John Hamilton (1805-1867), English geologist and eldest son of William Richard Hamilton (1777-1859), was born in London on July 5, 1805.
		William John Hamilton continued to publish papers on such subjects as the rocks and minerals of Tuscany, the agate-quarries of Oberstein, and the geology of the Mayence Basin and of the Hesse Cassel district.
	www.amphilsoc.org /library/mole/h/hamilton.htm (1196 words)

	AllRefer.com - Sir William Hamilton, British diplomat and archaeologist (Archaeology, Biography) - Encyclopedia
		Sir William Hamilton, British diplomat and archaeologist, Archaeology, Biographies
		Sir William Hamilton 1730–1803, British diplomat and archaeologist, ambassador to Naples (1764–1800).
		He was the husband of Emma, Lady Hamilton, mistress of Admiral Horatio Nelson.
	reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/H/HamiltSrW1.html (237 words)

	William Hamilton - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Several people have been known by the name William Hamilton; William is often shortened to Will or Bill.
		William Hamilton (14th century), Dean of York and Lord Chancellor 1305-1307
		Sir William Hamilton (1730-1803), Scottish diplomat and husband of Emma Hamilton
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/William_Hamilton (184 words)

	Sir William Hamilton, 9th Baronet -- Encyclopædia Britannica
		Hamilton took his B.A. from Balliol College, Oxford, in 1811 and became a member of the Scottish bar in 1813.
		British diplomat and archaeologist who was the husband of Emma, Lady Hamilton, the mistress of Admiral Horatio Nelson.
		The development of modern abstract algebra was aided by his theory of quaternions, a complex form of calculus useful in performing geometric operations in three-dimensional space.
	www.britannica.com /eb/article-9039041 (738 words)

	GO BRITANNIA! Scotland: Great Scots of Note
		Hamiltons' incompetence as a military leader was honed in Europe when he was sent to command a Swedish force fighting in Germany in the Thirty Years War.
		A favorite of Charles, Hamilton was then made a commissioner to deal with the stubborn and rebellious Scots, who had drawn up the National Covenant to pledge their support for Presbyterianism and their objection to the insistence of the equally stubborn king that the English liturgy be used in Scottish churches.
		Glasgow-born Sir William Hamilton, metaphysical philosopher and educator, became chair of logic and metaphysics in 1836 at Edinburgh University.
	www.britannia.com /celtic/scotland/greatscots/h1.html (2648 words)

	EGYPT ALWAYS GREATLAND
		William Hamilton was born in 1936 in Cairo, Egypt.
		Hamilton expanded Charles Darwin's explanation of the existence of sterile castes in insects, and combined it with Ronald Fisher's hint about quantifying altruism in caterpillars toward siblings, creating a comprehensive theory accounting for underlying patterns of sociality in all organisms (Alexander).
		Hamilton died of malaria which he contracted on a expedition to the Congo where he was seeking evidence to bolster a radical hypothesis that the AIDS epidemic can be traced to contaminated polio vaccines.
	ghazala.4t.com /egypt.html (3709 words)

	Family Trees of Thomas Jefferson and Other Famous Americans - pafg234 - Generated by Personal Ancestral File
		Sir William HAMILTON [Parents] was born on 13 Dec 1730 in Henley-on-Thames: Park Place.
		William BOX was born about 1513 in Of, London, London, England.
		William Trebinshun HAMILTON was born about 1663 in Of Chilston Park,, Kent, England.
	www.ishipress.com /pafg234.htm (1024 words)

	Hamilton, Sir William on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		HAMILTON, SIR WILLIAM [Hamilton, Sir William] 1788-1856, Scottish philosopher.
		Hamilton helped to reestablish the waning fame of the Scottish school of metaphysics.
		Export of drawing of Mary Hamilton by Sir Thomas Lawrence deferred.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/H/HamiltS1rW12.asp (614 words)

	That Hamilton Woman
		Emma Lyon), the future Lady Hamilton, had become well known in London society because, from the brothel, she had become the mistress of several prominent men.
		She lived with a young gentleman named Charles Francis Greville, who sent her to Naples to be the mistress of his diplomat uncle, Sir William Hamilton, in return for Sir William's payment of his debts.
		Nelson fell in love with Emma Hamilton, the young wife of the elderly British ambassador to Naples.
	www.vernonjohns.org /snuffy1186/thathaml.html (939 words)

	Princeton University Senior Theses brief display
		Davis, Jr., William Faber (1950): William Butler Yeats: The Philosopher and the Symbolist.
		Meyer, Anthony Haven (1955): William McKinley and the Annexation of the Philippines.
		Neilson, Frederic William Gebhard (1955): The Province of the Poet: A Study of the Concept of the Role of the Poet as Expressed in the Prose and Poetry of Thomas Stearns Eliot and William Butler Yeats.
	libweb5.princeton.edu /theses/thesesvw.asp?Lname=&Fname=&Submit=Search&Title1=william&department=&Class=&Adviser= (6908 words)

	HAMILTON, Alexander (1757-1804) Guide to Research Papers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Alexander Hamilton expresses his pleasure that General Gates is to be removed and succeeded by General Greene in the South.
		Alexander Hamilton requests that the hydrometers in transit to Sharp Delany’s office be sent to several ports and receipts obtained for each upon delivery.
		Alexander Hamilton writes concerning movements and operations of the British and Continental armies in South Carolina, Virginia, and Pennsylvania, and discusses a motion made by General Schuyler, in Congress proposing a convention of the states to achieve “a solid confederation to give sufficient powers to Congress for calling forth the resources of the country...
	bioguide.congress.gov /scripts/guidedisplay.pl?index=H000101 (1986 words)

	More info about the poet: William Hamilton - references bibliography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		William Hamilton, the author and web editor of Civil War @ Charleston is an Attorney, Writer and Civil War reenactor living and working in historic downtown...
		Hamilton, born at Ladyland, Ayrshire, was the 2nd son of Captain William Hamilton.
		William Hamilton's mother was Elizabeth Stirling and his father, the professor of anatomy in the University of...
	www.poemhunter.com /william-hamilton/resources/poet-37359/page-1 (624 words)

	NewsScan Publishing Inc. - NewsScan Daily Archives (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		That moment marked the emergence of Nelson, the commander of genius, whose string of victories at sea led up to the final victory at Trafalgar, making Britain safe from invasion and giving it control of the seas for the next 100 years.
		Scandal touched Nelson's reputation by gossip about his love affair with Lady Emma Hamilton, the vivacious young wife of Sir William Hamilton, a prominent British diplomat.
		Hamilton tolerated the affair, even after the lovers had a daughter they named Horatia.
	www.newsscan.com /cgi-bin/findit_view?table=honorary_subscriber&id=602 (584 words)

	Ockham's Razor:23 October 2005 - The Life and Death of Emma, Lady Hamilton
		For Lady Hamilton there were many occasions of such brittle caprice, but for her, life neither started nor concluded in such Arcadian felicity.
		After the short visit the captain wrote to Fanny, his wife in England, ‘Lady Hamilton is a young woman of amiable manners and does honour to the station in which she is raised’.
		At his death Hamilton’s debts were enormous and his widow, despite having an allowance from her lover, had to sell many of her treasures to support herself.
	www.abc.net.au /rn/science/ockham/stories/s1486886.htm (2075 words)

	Hamilton Coat of Arms, Family Crest
		Scotland with its rugged terrain and rich ancestry was the beginning of the ancient family tree of the Hamilton family.
		In Scotland, hereditary surnames were adopted according to fairly general rules and during the late Middle Ages, names that were derived from localities became increasingly widespread.
		The Hamilton family originally lived in the village of Hamilton or Hameldune near Barkby in the county of Leicestershire, before migrating to Scotland.
	www.houseofnames.com /coatofarms_details.asp?s=Hamilton&origin=SC&sId= (1150 words)

	FAMOUS HAMILTONS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		John Steinbeck His maternal grandfather was a Hamilton.
		Sir William and Lady Emma Hamilton Sir William Hamilton - British diplomat, archaeologist, vulcanologist, and ambassador to Naples (1764—1800).
		Paul Hamilton - Secretary of the Navy Under James Madison from 1808-12.
	www.hamiltongensociety.org /famous.php (133 words)

	NYPL, James Gillray
		Gillray shows connoisseur, archaeologist, and diplomat Sir William Hamilton surrounded by works of art that refer to the well-known affair between his wife, Lady Emma Hamilton, and the naval hero Horatio Nelson.
		Hamilton studies a damaged bust of Lais, the beautiful mistress of the classical philosopher Aristippus of Cyrene, which here represents Lady Hamilton.
		Hamilton as the Roman emperor Claudius, who was betrayed by his wife, is framed under a cuckold’s antlers.
	www.nypl.org /research/chss/spe/art/print/exhibits/gillray/part7.html (3015 words)

	Lady Hamilton @ Nelson.y2u.co.uk (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		She was living with Charles Francis Greville who sent her to Naples to be the mistress of his uncle, Sir William Hamilton, a diplomat, in return for Hamilton's payment of Greville's debts.
		She became a close friend of Queen Marie Caroline, wife of Ferdinand I of Naples, as a result of which she met Nelson in 1793, who was to gather reinforcements against the French.
		After Nelson's death in 1805, Emma quickly exhausted the inheritance she had received from Sir William, and by 1813, she was deeply in debt.
	nelson.y2u.co.uk /NL-Lady-Emma-Hamilton.htm (592 words)

	Open Directory - Society:Philosophy:Philosophers:H
		He shouldn't be confused with his contemporary, the mathematician William Rowan Hamilton.
		(Friedrich) Wilhelm (Christian Karl Ferdinand) Baron von Humboldt (1767-1835) was a German philosopher, linguist, educator, politician, diplomat, civil servant and the founder of the Humboldt University in Berlin.
		His most renown work was "Ideen zu einem Versuch die Grenzen der Wirksamkeit des Staates zu bestimmen", translated in English as "The Sphere and Duties of Government" in 1854 and as "The Limits of State Action" in 1993, where he defended the liberties of the Enlightenment against the intrusive role of the state.
	dmoz.org /Society/Philosophy/Philosophers/H/desc.html (1118 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Fields of Fire: A Life of Sir William Hamilton: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The son of a favourite courtier, William Hamilton began life sharing a wet-nurse with the future George III, and spent much of his childhood in the discordant atmosphere of the Hanoverian household.
		After several years as a soldier, courtier and MP, he turned to the diplomatic world and, in 1764, was sent to Naples as Envoy Extraordinary to the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies.
		Yet, for most people, William Hamilton is not remembered as a diplomat, art-collector, naturalist, musician and scholar but as the cuckolded husband of Emma Hamilton, mistress of the heroic Lord Nelson.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/0297818880 (450 words)

	Software for Collectors: Books: The Complete Collection of Antiquities from the Cabinet of Sir William Hamilton, ...
		She has collaborated on various excavations and exhibitions and is presently writing a catalogue of the first Hamilton collection of vases for the British Museum, which is partially represented in the Antiquités of D'Hancarville.
		This spectacular compilation of plates, representing a superb collection of ancient vases, is the fruit of a collaboration between Sir William Hamilton (1730-1803), British diplomat and collector, and Pierre-François Hugues d'Hancarville (1719-1805), an adventurous connoisseur and amateur art dealer.
		As an envoy to the British Embassy in Naples, Hamilton developed a keen interest in both antiquity and volcanology, studying the royal excavations of Pompei and Hercolano and publishing the first scientific essays on mount Vesuvius.
	www.primasoft.com /book_collecting/collecting_pottery_book_049.htm (397 words)

	Tria Juncta in Uno (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The three were referred to by Emma as the "Tria Juncto in Uno" for, as she said, "Sir W., he and I have but one heart in three bodies".
		Her husband was the British Ambassador to Naples, a cultivated diplomat with wide ranging interests in art, antiquities and volcanology.
		When Sir William was recalled from Naples, Nelson took the opportunity to take leave and join them on what proved to be a four month tour across Europe [during which Nelson met and befriended the composer Haydn in Prague].
	www.nelson-society.org.uk /html/body_tria_juncta_in_uno.htm (1321 words)

	Wargamer - Warfare in the Age of Sail - Evacuation of Naples (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		As Napoleon's campaigns swept across Europe, Britain's diplomats, who were trying to coordinate alliances and attempting to discern Napoleon's intentions and deployments, found themselves threatened along with the governments who were being displaced.
		One such diplomat was Ambassador to Naples Sir William Hamilton and his lovely young wife Emma.
		Thanks to brilliant work by both Nelson and Emma, the Hamiltons and Neopolitan monarchy were successfully rescued, but Nelson's action was sharply criticized at the time as motivated solely by personal friendship and romantic interest.
	www.wargamer.com /aos/naples.asp (237 words)

	Hamilton Coat of Arms, Family Crest
		Celena (Lena) Jane Russell Smith (also Hamilton), Her Ancestors, Descendants, and Collateral Kinsmen by Matthew Lee McHugh and Celena Russell Smith McHugh, Hamilton Kin of Martha Mat Tucker by Duard Arnold Tucker.
		Hamilton Framed Surname History and Coat of Arms
		Hamilton PDF Armorial History With Coat of Arms
	www.houseofnames.com /coatofarms_details.asp?s=Hamilton&origin=SC&sId= (1150 words)

	William Hamilton - OneLook Dictionary Search
		Hamilton, William : Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition (Encyclopedia.com) [home, info]
		William Hamilton : Dictionary of Philosophical Terms and Names [home, info]
		William Hamilton : Free On-line Dictionary of Computing [home, info]
	www.onelook.com /cgi-bin/cgiwrap/bware/dofind.cgi?word=William+Hamilton (147 words)

	13 Dec History: This Date (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		He was the son of Lord Archibald Hamilton, governor of Jamaica.He served in the army (1747—1758) but left it after his marriage to a Welsh heiress, whose estate in Swansea he inherited on her death in 1782.
		Hamilton made or caused to be made, at Vesuvius and Etna, a series of observations on the action of volcanoes and published several treatises on earthquakes and volcanoes between 1772 and 1783.
		Hamilton married her on 06 September 1791, so that now she was called Lady Emma Hamilton.
	www.jcanu.hpg.ig.com.br /history/h4dec/h4dec13.html (11760 words)

	NPG 680; Sir William Hamilton
		The British envoy to Naples from 1764 to 1800), Sir William Hamilton was husband to Nelson’s Emma.
		He was a distinguished antiquary, made twenty-two ascents of Vesuvius, and reported discoveries at Pompeii to the Society of Antiquaries.
		In this portrait Hamilton holds a volume of D’Hancarville’s splendid engravings of his collection.
	www.npg.org.uk /live/search/portrait.asp?search=sp&sText=Hamilton&rNo=6 (112 words)

	Sir William Johnson
		Frontier developer, businessman, Indian diplomat, military leader, Masonic enthusiast, and all-around British official, William Johnson was one of the most important people in colonial New York.
		The most comprehensive biographical study of Johnson is Milton W. Hamilton, Sir William Johnson: Colonial American, 1715-1763 (Port Washington, NY: 1976).
		Milton Hamilton also was the last editor of the Johnson Papers.
	www.nysm.nysed.gov /albany/bios/j/swj.html (392 words)

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