Anthony Hamilton (Archdeacon of Colchester)
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Anthony Hamilton (1739–1812) was an Anglican priest, Archdeacon of Colchester from 1775.{{acad|id=HMLN755A|name=Hamilton, Anthony}}'Archdeacons: Colchester', in Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae 1541–1857: Volume 1, St. Paul's, London, ed. Joyce M Horn (London, 1969), pp. 12-14 http://www.british-history.ac.uk/fasti-ecclesiae/1541-1857/vol1/pp12-14 [accessed 5 September 2015].
Life
His father Alexander Hamilton was the fifth son of William Hamilton the Scottish antiquarian, who died in 1724.{{cite DNB|wstitle=Hamilton, William (d.1724)|volume=24}} He had married the heiress Charlotte Styles, and so acquired the Essex manor of Holyfield (Hallifield), in the north-east of the parish of Waltham Holy Cross which remained in the family into the 19th century.'Waltham Holy Cross: Introduction and manors', in A History of the County of Essex: Volume 5, ed. W R Powell (London, 1966), pp. 151–162 http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/essex/vol5/pp151-162 [accessed 7 September 2015]. The Hamilton family owned also the Debden Hall farm and estate (see Debden House).'Loughton: Manors', in A History of the County of Essex: Volume 4, Ongar Hundred, ed. W R Powell (London, 1956), pp. 118–121 http://www.british-history.ac.uk/vch/essex/vol4/pp118-121 [accessed 2 September 2015]. The owner of Debden Hall was Alex. Hamilton on a map of 1777.{{cite web|url=http://www.parksandgardens.org/places-and-people/site/4953?preview=1|title=parksandgardens.org, Debden Hall|accessdate=8 September 2015}} Venn's Alumni Cantabrigienses proposes the identification of Alexander Hamilton as the London solicitor of the name. He moved to Loughton, transferring the remains of Charlotte and three children to be reburied there in 1744.{{cite book|title=Transactions of the Essex Archaeological Society|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Q5kNQwAACAAJ|year=1918|volume=14|page=279|publisher=The Society}}
Anthony Hamilton junior was a younger son of the marriage.{{cite book|author=Elizabeth Ogborne|author-link=Elizabeth Ogborne|title=The History of Essex: From the Earliest Period to the Present Time: Illustrated with Accurate Engravings of Churchs, Monuments|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IeVSAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA197|year=1814|publisher=Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme and Brown|page=197}} He was educated at Harrow School and entered Corpus Christi College, Cambridge in 1755. He graduated B.A. there in 1760, M.A. in 1763, and D.D. in 1775.
Ordained deacon in 1762 and priest in 1763, he became vicar of Fulham, and then in 1766 of Orsett in Essex. In 1770, on the death of John Jortin, he became Archdeacon of London, giving up the post in 1775 to become Archdeacon of Colchester.{{cite wikisource|last1=Le Neve|first1= John|last2= Hardy|first2= Thomas Duffus, Sir|date=1854|location=Oxford |publisher=
University Press|title=Fasti ecclesiae Anglicanae |volume=2|wslink=Page:Fasti ecclesiae Anglicanae Vol.2 body of work part 2.djvu/55|p=325}} He was elected a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries of London in 1773, and of the Royal Society in 1777.{{cite book|author=Thomas Thomson|title=History of the Royal Society, from Its Institution to the End of the 18th Century. London, Baldwin 1812|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BxZUAAAAcAAJ&pg=PR56|year=1812|publisher=Baldwin|page=lvi}}
In 1776 Hamilton became rector of Much Hadham in Hertfordshire and gave up his Fulham living; he became also vicar of St Martin-in-the-Fields.{{cite book|author=Thomas Faulkner|title=An Historical and Topographical Account of Fulham: Including the Hamlet of Hammersmith|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=kRQwAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA48|year=1813|publisher=T. Egerton|page=48}} In the 1790s he lived at 16 Savile Row, London.'Cork Street and Savile Row Area: Table of notable inhabitants on the Burlington Estate', in Survey of London: Volumes 31 and 32, St James Westminster, Part 2, ed. F H W Sheppard (London, 1963), pp. 566–572 http://www.british-history.ac.uk/survey-london/vols31-2/pt2/pp566-572 [accessed 7 September 2015]. He was buried at Loughton, with memorials set up in the Much Hadham and Little Hadham churches.
Family
Hamilton married Anne Terrick, daughter of Richard Terrick. Their first son was William Richard Hamilton{{cite DNB|wstitle=Hamilton, William Richard|volume=24}} and their second son Anthony Hamilton the Archdeacon of Taunton and the father of Bishop Walter Kerr Hamilton.{{cite book|author=Charles Roger Dod|author-link=Charles Roger Dod|title=Dod's Peerage, Baronetage and Knightage, of Great Britain and Ireland|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_wEdAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA477|year=1855|publisher=S. Low, Marston & Company|page=477}}
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Category:18th-century English Anglican priests
Category:Alumni of Corpus Christi College, Cambridge
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Category:Archdeacons of London
Category:Fellows of the Royal Society
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Category:People educated at Harrow School