J. A. HAM MERTON

Background

HAM MERTON, J. A. was born in 1871 in Alexandria, N.B. Son of late James Hammerton of Oldham.

Education

Glasgow, privately.

Career

Associate editor Scottish Reformer, 1888-1893. Chief sub-editor Glasgow Daily Echo, 1893-1894. Editor Blackpool Herald, 1894-1895.

Nottingham Daily Express, 1895- 1897.

Birmingham Weekly Post, 1897-1900. General Editor and Literary Adviser to South. West. Partridge and Company, 1900-1905.

Editor London Magazine, 1905-1907. IJarmsworth History of the World, 1907-1909.

World’s Great Books, 1909-1910.

Wrote the literary causerie signed “Judge-Advocate H.” in Black and White, 1901-1903. In Bystander, 1903-1905. In Daily Mail, 1905-1906.

Contributed to Harmswortli Self - Educatoi and many magazines.

Author and editors

Membership

Clubs: Savage, Whitefriars’.

Interests

• Golf, motoring, and foreign traveling

Connections

Spouse 1895, Rhoda Lawrence,daughter of late Colin G. Lawrence.

Father:

James Hammerton

Spouse:

Rhoda Lawrence