William Richard Hamilton, FRS

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"William Richard Hamilton, FRS, (1777–1859) was a British antiquarian, traveller and diplomat. He was son of Rev. Anthony Hamilton, Archdeacon of Colchester and Anne, daughter of Richard Terrick, Bishop of London...

...In 1799 he was appointed chief private secretary to Thomas Bruce, 7th Earl of Elgin. He was in Egypt as the British took it over from the French, and secured the Rosetta Stone. After a voyage up the Nile, he wrote a well-known work of Egyptology...

...From 1809 to 1822 Hamilton served as Permanent Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs, and from 1822 to 1825 he was Minister and Envoy Plenipotentiary at the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies. In 1830 he succeeded Sir Thomas Lawrence as Secretary of the Society of Dilettanti, a post which he held until his death in 1859...

...The geologist William John Hamilton was his son."

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III. John, born 1727, resided in Italy. He was British Consul at Venice and Leghorn; married, August, 1777, Selina Shore, daughter of John Cleveland, M.P. for Saltash, and Secretary to the Admiralty, by Sarah, his wife, sister of Sir Charles Stuckburgh, Bart., and died in 1800, leaving, with a daughter, Julia, who married, 3 Septemberj 1804, William Richard Hamilton of the Belhaven family, Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs and Minister at Naples, a son, John Robert Udny, afterwards of Udny.

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William Richard Hamilton, FRS, (1777–1859) was a British antiquarian, traveller and diplomat. He was son of Rev. Anthony Hamilton, Archdeacon of Colchester and Anne, daughter of Richard Terrick, Bishop of London.

In 1799 he was appointed chief private secretary to Thomas Bruce, 7th Earl of Elgin. He was in Egypt as the British took it over from the French, and secured the Rosetta Stone. After a voyage up the Nile, he wrote a well-known work of Egyptology.

From 1809 to 1822 Hamilton served as Permanent Under-Secretary for Foreign Affairs, and from 1822 to 1825 he was Minister and Envoy Plenipotentiary at the Kingdom of the Two Sicilies. In 1830 he succeeded Sir Thomas Lawrence as Secretary of the Society of Dilettanti, a post which he held until his death in 1859.

The geologist William John Hamilton was his son.

Other References

• Hogg, Bruce; Freemasons and the Royal Society ed 2; Library and Museum of Freemasonry; January 2012; page 54