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Born on 28 May 1853, the son of Major-General
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Hamilton Anne Douglas-Hamilton, who was Rector at Marlesford, Suffolk, England, held the office of Honorary Canon of Bury Saint Edmunds Cathedral, was Honorary Chaplain to the Bishop of Saint Edmundsbury, and had served in South Africa as Archdeacon of Kimberley and the first Rector of Christ Church Arcadia, in Pretoria.
Education
Octavius Douglas-Hamilton and Katherine Augusta Westenra Macleod, Douglas-Hamilton graduated with an Master of Arts
Career
From Trinity College, Cambridge. Douglas-Hamilton was older brother to Lieutenant Colonel Angus Falconer Douglas-Hamilton, a recipient of a posthumous Venture capital during the Great War.
The Revd H. A. Douglas Hamilton was appointed Rector of Latimer, Chesham and chaplain to Lord Chesham before becoming Vicar of Holy Trinity Church in 1891.
In 1898, he was appointed rector of Old Charlton, Rochester. From 1915 to 1925 he was Vicar of Street Mary le Tower, Ipswich.
In South Africa Douglas-Hamilton was Archdeacon of Kimberley and Rector of Street Cyprian’s Church from 1903 to 1905, after which he went to Pretoria as first Rector of Christchurch Arcadia. Douglas-Hamilton married, firstly, Lillie Bowles, daughter of J. Bowles, on 26 October 1875.
They had issue:
Captain Basil Sholto Anne Douglas-Hamilton b.
11 August 1876, daughter 12 April 1920
Commander James Angus Douglas-Hamilton b. 13 August 1890
Ilta Douglas-Hamilton b. b 1900, daughter
10 March 1957
Mary Douglas-Hamilton b. b 1900.
Douglas-Hamilton married, secondly, Honorary Agnes Rosamund Bateman-Hanbury, daughter of William Bateman-Hanbury, 2nd Baron Bateman of Shobdon and Agnes Burrell Kerrison, on 24 October 1922. He died on 22 August 1929 at age 76.
