Hamilton Adrian Balfour Piffard

From Families in British India Society - Times of India 15 January 1862

5 January 1862 Birth of a son to Piffard in Calcutta

On 5 January 1862 at No 2 London Street Calcutta the wife of Charles Piffard esq of a son

From findmypast 18710402 census Hamilton A B Piffard 9 Reginald D F 7 at 10 Beaumont Street Marylebone London

2 April 1871 Census for residents of [10 Beaumont Street, Marylebone, London W1G 6AA 51.5207843, -0.1503277]

• Louisa Bradshaw, lodger, female aged 60 [born about 1811] in Ongar, Essex; Nurse
• Hamilton A B Piffard, male aged 9 [born about 1862] in Calcutta, India; Scholar
• Reginald D F Piffard, male aged 7 [born about 1864] in Calcutta, India; Scholar

From findmypast 18910405 census Hamilton Piffard 29 at Oxford Street Darlington Durham

5 April 1891 Census for residents of Oxford Street, Darlington, County Durham

• John Alton, head, married, male aged 52 [born about 1839] in Gunnerside, Yorkshire; Journeyman Joiner
• Hannah Alton, wife, married, female aged 52 [born about 1839] in Barnard Castle, County Durham
• 3 children, 2 other boarders
• Hamilton Piffard, boarder, single, male aged 29 [born about 1862] in Calcutta, East Indies; Actor & Solicitor

From FreeBMD: Registration of marriage of Blanche Rosamund Chilton in 1891

and FreeBMD: Registration of marriage of Hamilton Adrian B. Piffard in 1891

• October to December 1891: Registration of marriage of Hamilton Adrian B. Piffard; in Plymouth (Volume 5b, Page 480)
• October to December 1891: Registration of marriage of Blanche Rosamund Chilton; in Plymouth (Volume 5b, Page 480)

From British Newspaper Archive: Cork Constitution Monday, 21 December 1891 Page 1 Marriages

The Anglican Church of All Saints, Harwell Street, Stonehouse, Plymouth PL1 5RY 50.374029, -4.148369 Piffard — Chilton — Tuesday, 15 December 1891, at All Saints', Plymouth, by the Rev C R Chase, Vicar, Hamilton Adrian Balfour Piffard, son of the late Charles Piffard, M. A. Barrister-at-Law, to Blanche Rosamond Chilton, of South Court House, Linslade, Buckinghamshire, widow of Major Henry Chilton, 4th Royal Irish Dragoon Guards.

NOTE: All Saints' Church on the corner of Harwell Street with Hastings Terrace, was opposite the Great Western Railway's carriage sheds. It no longer exists.

From Families in British India Society - Times of India 7 January 1892

15 December 1891 Marriage of Hamilton Adrian Balfour Piffard to Blanche Rosamond Chilton in Plymouth

15 December 1891 at All Saints' Plymouth by the Rev C.R. Chase Vicar, Hamilton Adrian Balfour Piffard son of the late Charles Piffard Esq MA Barrister-at-law and grandson of the late James Hume Esq Chief Magistrate of Calcutta to Blanche Rosamond Chilton of South Court House Linslade Bucks widow of Major Henry Chilton 4th Royal Irish Dragoon Guards

Author of Marforio and other poems by Hamilton Adrian Piffard Published 1900 - Cambridge University Library

From The Australasian (Melbourne, Victoria) Saturday, 21 March 1903 Page 38 Society & Fashion

No date is yet announced for the marriage of Miss Minnie Lawson Ash, daughter of Mr. Frederick Ash, of Kent house, Kensington Court, London, and Newcastle, New South Wales, and Mr. Hamilton Adrian Piffard, who is a son of the late Charles Piffard, M.A., of the Middle Temple, and formerly clerk to the Crown at Calcutta.

From FreeBMD: Registration of marriage of Minnie Lawson T. Ash in 1903 and FreeBMD: Registration of marriage of Hamilton Adrian B. Piffard in 1903

• January to March 1903: Registration of marriage of Hamilton Adrian B. Piffard; in Kensington (Volume 1a, Page 184)
• January to March 1903: Registration of marriage of Minnie Lawson T. Ash; in Kensington (Volume 1a, Page 184)

From British Newspaper Archive: Gentlewoman Saturday, 21 March 1903 Page 146

Piffard — Ash. — On Wednesday, 4 March 1903, at St Mary Abbots, Kensington Church Street, Kensington, London W8 4LA 51.50222, -0.19167, by the Rev. H. van Cooten, Hamilton Adrian Balfour Piffard, son of the late Charles Piffard, barrister-at-law, to Minnie Tomlin Lawson Ash, third daughter of Frederick Ash, of [Kent House, 34 Kensington Court, Kensington, London W8 5BE 51.5011514, -0.1886844], and Newcastle, New South Wales.

From Bear Alley Books

Hamilton Adrian Balfour Piffard (born in 1862 – he became an actor, dying in Switzerland in 1927)

From Observer (Adelaide, South Australia) Saturday, 20 January 1906 Page 26 What Australia has done

The victories of the New Zealanders in England were frequently followed by some warm work in the corresponding columns of the newspapers. At first there was only slight skirmishing between supporters of England and New Zealand, but when one of the defenders of the former, who signed himself Hamilton Piffard, made some unenthusiastic reference to the "colonies," with special mention of Australia's inability to "lick England last year at cricket," the battle became general.

Off went an Australian coat—the Kangaroo was alongside of the Moa in an instant having it out with the Lion. This is what "Australia, 14 Hanover square," said:— "Your correspondent Mr. Hamilton Piffard seems to have limited his knowledge of the affairs of this world to a certain quotation from Macaulay about a certain Maori. Might I add that all interest in this palaeozoic remark of Macaulay's is as moribund as a dead frog on the banks of the Suwanee River? Mr. Piffard is angry. While a schoolboy in Australia I took interest in the doings of Australians against England. We were always beaten, but took our defeats well.

One day Australia came out top dog — a thing which England hitherto believed to be an impossible achievement. Then a man named Beach came along, and rowed the head off every man opposed to him. Searle and Stanbury and Towns followed. 'Ah,' said the Englishman, 'you can beat us at professional work, but not in the fields of amateurism.'

Afterwards a man named Kelly visited Oxford, and won the sculling championship (as he pleased). If I remember rightly, England beat Australia at tennis; still, Australia did not do so badly for a country of two million souls. Just to make up for this defeat, Barney Kieran, the Sobraon boy, pops up, and wipes out all records up to 500 yards, and a certain Miss Kellerman can swim away from any English lady swimmer.

Mr. Piffard refers to England's prowess on the running path. Well, I believe Australians and New Zealanders are not so bad there. In the world of art we certainly do not achieve more than our share. But Australia and New Zealand are young yet. However, I might mention the names of Melba, Crossley, and Amy Castles, and, as a painter, Mortimer Menpes. Mr. Piffard alludes to the rifle. I have a notion that not so long ago Australia beat all comers at Bisley. With regard to the New Zealand footballers, and speaking as an Australian, may I remind Mr. Piffard that this team was beaten by certain other New Zealand teams; and may I also remind him that the population of New Zealand is, I believe, something under 900,000?"

— Sydney Daily Telegraph, 13 January 1906.

From British Newspaper Archive: Belfast Weekly Telegraph Saturday, 29 December 1917 Page 2 Edmund Burke on Ireland

Permit me to quote an Irishman, Edmund Burke, on Irish grievances (writes Mr. Hamilton Piffard in the "Morning Post"). He says: — "For, in the name of God, what grievance has Ireland, as Ireland, to complain of with regard to Great Britain unless the protection of the most powerful country upon earth, giving all her privileges, without exception, in common to Ireland, and reserving to herself the painful pre-eminence of tenfold burdens, be a matter of complaint? The subject, as a subject, is as free in Ireland as he is in England. As a member of the Empire, an Irishman has every privilege of a natural-born Englishman, in every part of it, in every occupation, and in every branch of commerce. No monopoly is established against him anywhere; and the great staple manufacture of Ireland is not only not prohibited, not only not discouraged, but it is privileged in a manner that has no example. I say nothing of the immense advantage she derives from the use of English capital. Ireland, therefore as Ireland, whether it be taken civilly, constitutionally, or commercially, suffers no grievance. All the evils of Ireland originate within itself; but it is the boundless credit which is given to an Irish cabal that produces whatever mischiefs both countries may find in their relation."