Reverend, Doctor Robert Hamilton, FRSE

REVEREND DOCTOR ROBERT HAMILTON FRSE

Professor of Divinity at Edinburgh University; Formerly Minister of the Gospel at Greyfriars in Edinburgh

Fasti I: 46-7

Biographical Summary

Hamilton, Robert. 19/05/1707-03/04/1787. Ref: 686. Male.

• Titles and British Honours: Very Rev.
• Place of Birth: Manse of Cramond, Edinburgh.
• Place of interment: Buccleuch Cemy. Edinburgh.
• Profession: Minister of Religion.
• Appointments Held: Licenced CS 1730; Minister 1731 Cramond; 1736 Lady Yester's and Old Greyfriars Churches, Edinburgh; Professor 1754-79, Joint Professor 1779-87, Divinity, Edinburgh University; Moderator 1754 & 1760 CS General Assembly; Dean of the Order of the Thistle.
• Schools and Tutors: High School Edinburgh.
• Undergraduate Studies: Edinburgh University.
• Postgraduate Studies: DD(Hon Edinburgh 1759).
• Marital Status: Married Jean Hay of Haystoun.
• Family: son James Hamilton, FRSE,1749-1835 and perhaps also Gavin Hamilton, FRSE 1755-1829.
• Father: Rev William Hamilton, Minister of Cramond and Principal of Edinburgh University.d.1732.
• Other Family: Father-in-law of Benjamin Bell, FRSE 1749-1806, Grandfather of Robert Bell, FRSE 1782-1861, William Bell, FRSE 1783-1849, George Bell, FRSE d c1831.
• References: Fasti. Eccl. Scot. 1, 1915, 37; Anderson 2, 425; Shapin 223; S Devlin-Thorp Scotland's Cultural Heritage 2,1981, 41; W P Anderson 1931, 657-8.
• Date of Election: 17/11/1783.
• Proposers: Founder Member.
• Fellow Type: OF.

SOURCE: Waterston, Charles D; Macmillan Shearer, A (July 2006). Biographical index of former fellows of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, 1783-2002: Biographical Index. I. Edinburgh: The Royal Society of Edinburgh. ISBN 978-0-902198-84-5. page 409

Other References

• Fasti ecclesiae scoticanae: the succession of ministers in the Church of Scotland from the reformation, Vol. I, page 46