Walter Kerr Hamilton
{{Short description|English priest and bishop (1808–1869)}}
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| honorific-prefix = The Right Reverend
| image = Walter Kerr Hamilton by JJE Mayall.jpg
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| church = Church of England
| title = Bishop of Salisbury
| diocese = Diocese of Salisbury
| term = 1854–1869
| predecessor = Edward Denison
| successor = George Moberly
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| ordination = 2 June 1833 (deacon)
22 December 1833 (priest)
| consecration = 14 May 1854
| birth_date = {{birth date|1808|11|16|df=y}}
| birth_place = London, UK
| death_date = {{death date and age|1869|8|1|1808|11|16|df=y}}
| death_place = Salisbury, UK
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| nationality = English
| religion = Anglican
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| spouse = Isabel Elizabeth Lear
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| profession =
| education = Eton College
| alma_mater = Christ Church, Oxford
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Walter Kerr Hamilton (16 November 1808 – 1 August 1869) was a Church of England priest, Bishop of Salisbury from 1854 until his death.
Biography
He was born on 16 November 1808, educated at Eton College, tutored by Thomas Arnold, and then attended Christ Church, University of Oxford, where he took a first class degree in Greats. He was elected to a Fellowship at Merton College, Oxford in 1832. He was made deacon in 1833 and ordained priest in December of the same year. He was a curate at Wolvercote 1833–34, then served as curate to Edward Denison, another Fellow at Merton and vicar at the parish of St Peter-in-the-East. Upon Denison's appointment as Bishop of Salisbury in 1837, Hamilton succeeded him as vicar, remaining until 1841. He subsequently became a canon-resident of Salisbury.
Upon Denison's death on 1 August 1854, aged 60, Hamilton succeeded him as Bishop. In 1860, he founded Salisbury Theological College (now Sarum College).
His private papers are currently in the possession of the Archives of Pusey House, Oxford.
Family
Hamilton was born into an ecclesiastical family, the son of Anthony Hamilton (Archdeacon of Taunton), the nephew of William Richard Hamilton, and the grandson of Anthony Hamilton (Archdeacon of Colchester) and his wife Anne Terrick, daughter of Richard Terrick (Bishop of London).
Hamilton married Isabel Elizabeth Lear on 9 January 1845. His daughter, Eleanor Frances Hamilton, married Ernest Kingscote (9 September 1856 – 16 June 1934) in 1887.
References
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- {{cite DNB|wstitle=Hamilton, Walter Kerr|first=William Alexander|last=Greenhill|volume=24}}
- {{cite book|first=Henry Parry |last=Liddon|url=http://anglicanhistory.org/liddon/sketch_hamilton1869.html |title=Walter Kerr Hamilton: A Sketch|author-link=Henry Parry Liddon|date=1869|publisher=Rivingtons|location=London}}
- {{cite book|url=http://anglicanhistory.org/liddon/hamilton.html |title=A Life in Death: A Sermon (on St. Luke xxiv. 4, 5) preached in Salisbury Cathedral, 8 August 1869, being the day after the Funeral of W. K. Hamilton, D.D., Bishop of Salisbury|first=Henry Parry |last=Liddon|author-link=Henry Parry Liddon|date=1869|publisher=Rivingtons|location=London}}
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Category:Alumni of Christ Church, Oxford