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| | Addendum to the Life of Sir William Rowan Hamilton, LL.D, D.C.L. |
 | | `Hamilton, Sir William Rowan (1805-1865), mathematician, born in Dublin at midnight, between 3 and 4 Aug., 1805, was the fourth child of Archibald Hamilton, a solicitor there, and his wife Sarah Hutton, a relative of Dr. Hutton the mathematician. |
 | | Archibald Hamilton was Scottish by birth, and went to Dublin when a boy with his father, William Hamilton, who settled as an apothecary there, and his mother, who was the daughter of the Rev. |
 | | Hamilton's sister Eliza, as mentioned in my biography, and was of a well-known family settled in Ireland in the reign of James I., members of which from the beginning of this century up to the present time have recognized their kinship with Rowan Hamilton, both in letters and in familiar personal intercourse. |
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