Edward Hamilton

Background

He succeeded to the title on the death of his father in 1904.

Education

Christ Church.

Career

His other titles included those of Viscount Chichester and Baron of Belfast, Earl of Donegall, Earl of Belfast, and Baron Fisherwick. He was also the Hereditary Lord High Admiral of Lough Neagh. After being educated at Eton and Christ Church, Oxford, he adopted a career in journalism and for many years wrote a column for the Sunday Dispatch under the title "Almost in Confidence".

He made regular contributions to the Sunday News and Sunday Graphic, and held at the same time a staff position on the Daily Sketch.

As a journalist he travelled extensively, notably covering the winter sports in Street Moritz, Switzerland. He was a passenger on the maiden trip of the Queen Mary, returning on the Hindenburg.

The Marquess had a lifelong interest in aviation and owned his own aircraft, which he used for pursuing news stories. He covered the Spanish Civil War and was a distinguished British war correspondent throughout the Second World War.

His interest extended to cars and he was President of the Middlesex County Automobile Club from 1964 until his death in 1975.

In 1949 he became a disc jockey with the British Broadcasting Corporation and in 1956 ran a Dixieland band and a jazz club in Kensington. He was also the owner of a record company. At the time of his death, the Marquess was working on his autobiography, which he planned to call Almost in Confidence, after the newspaper column he had run.

lieutenant was not ready for publication before he died.

He died in Switzerland on 24 May 1975 at the age of 71.

Membership

He was a long-time member of the Sherlock Holmes Society of London, and edited its magazine, the Sherlock Holmes Journal, for many years.

Connections

Friend:

My Lord Marquess