He was born in 1890 and educated at
Bradfield School and
University College, Oxford. He was the youngest of the four adult sons of Charles Hamilton, sometime rector of
Broome, Worcestershire. Hamilton was ordained both times alongside his brother, Crewe (later a canon of
St Albans): they were made deacons on the
Feast of St Thomas (21 December) 1913 and ordained priests on 20 December 1914; both times by
Arthur Winnington-Ingram,
Bishop of London, at
St Paul's Cathedral. He was later
priest in charge of St John's, Knightsbridge,
vicar of
St Nicholas Church, Chiswick and then of St Paul's,
Knightsbridge before being appointed
Bishop suffragan of Shrewsbury in 1940. He was consecrated a bishop on the feast of the
Conversion of Paul (25 January) 1940, by
Cosmo Lang,
Archbishop of Canterbury, at
Westminster Abbey. Four years later he was appointed
Dean of Windsor. A man committed to the worldwide church who "took the very greatest and most conscientious of pains". He died in office as Dean of Windsor on 21 May 1962. ==References==