Walter Ferrier Hamilton

{{Short description|British Liberal politician (1818–1872)}}

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|name = Walter Ferrier Hamilton

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|office = Member of Parliament
for Linlithgowshire

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|term_start = 2 April 1859

|term_end = 14 July 1865

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|predecessor = Charles Baillie

|successor = Peter McLagan

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|death_date = {{death date and given age|df=yes|1872|04|08|52}}

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Walter Ferrier Hamilton (31 May 1818 – 8 April 1872, Torphichen){{cite web |last1=Boase|first1=Frederic|title=Modern English Biography |year=1892|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GIVmAAAAMAAJ&q=%22Hamilton+Walter%22&pg=PA1305|accessdate=22 April 2021}} was a British Liberal politician.

Ferrier Hamilton was elected Liberal MP for Linlithgowshire at the 1859 general election until 1865 when he did not seek re-election at that year's election.{{cite book|editor1-last=Craig|editor1-first=F. W. S.|editor-link=F. W. S. Craig|title=British Parliamentary Election Results 1832-1885|date=1977|publisher=Macmillan Press|location=London|isbn=978-1-349-02349-3|edition=1st|type=e-book |page=595 }}

Hamilton's father was Col. John Ferrier Hamilton, of the 3rd (Prince of Wales's) Dragoon Guards, and his mother was The Hon. Georgina Prendergast Vereker, the third daughter of Charles Vereker, 2nd Viscount Gort.

{{Australian Dictionary of Biography

| first = J. Ann |last=Hone

| id2 = hamilton-thomas-ferrier-3704

| title = Hamilton, Thomas Ferrier (1820–1905)

| accessdate = 7 July 2014

}} Hamilton was their first son and inherited his father's properties. Hamilton's younger brother was Thomas Ferrier Hamilton who became an Australian politician, pastoralist, and sportsman.[https://api.parliament.uk/historic-hansard/people/major-walter-hamilton/index.html Major Walter Hamilton] – Hansard 1803–2005. Retrieved 27 March 2014.